Hosted by: Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network. Co-led by Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz.
In recent years across the nation there has been an explosion in the growth of innovative, environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive community-based businesses, financial institutions and democratic workplaces. The fast developing “New Economy Movement” has also spawned an increasingly sophisticated discussion of what it may mean to “change the system” in a democratic and ecologically meaningful way. We will focus first on one of the most significant community wealth building efforts in the country – the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland. Evergreen-inspired replications have been spawned in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Amarillo. We will then move to a discussion of how some of the principles involved in this and many other democratizing models may form the basis of a new vision and a step-by-step path to a systemic transformation that can deal with some of the largest domestic and global economic and ecological challenges of our time.
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
