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​"Weaving the CRNE Movement"

​​From the Post Carbon Institute, coauthored by Marissa Mommaerts, Ken White, and Ben Roberts. This is the main report that has come out of the interview and conversational process of which this weaving dialogue is the final phase.
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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​The report summarizes what we learned about what appears to us as a single movement for community resilience and a New Economy.  It includes areas of alignment as well as tension within this diverse "ecosystem" of alliances, initiatives, organizations, and activists. throughout the report, and especially in the "Visions of the Future" section, quotes from ​+the eighteen interviews we conducted​ are used to bring the movement alive through the words of many of its leaders.
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​​From Post Carbon Institute, compiled by Marissa Mommaerts. This collection of books, online resources, trainings and courses was assembled by members and allies of the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC), who share a vision of a world that is sustainable, just, compassionate, and healthy.
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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​Building Thriving, Resilient Communities explores many resilient systems being created in communities across the nation (and planet) that demonstrate how we can live more sustainably, and in community, while respecting Nature’s limits. More than just inspiring stories, this collection contains tools—practical, tested,  hands-on ways you can begin making your community more resilient. And best of all, most of these steps—collaborating with neighbors, supporting local farmers and tradespeople, reducing dependence on globalized trade—are the right thing to do… even if we weren’t facing unprecedented challenges!
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​The Guardian's "Rethinking Prosperity Hub"

​​The Guardian newspaper is launching this new effort via its Sustainable Business Blog. Here's an excerpt from the initial post, including a request for help:
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  • ​​[D]espite its obvious shortcomings and the ever-increasing urgency to act, the vast majority of people seem oblivious to the dangers and even those who recognise the scale of the risks are far away from reaching a consensus on what action to take. Many different initiatives are emerging and are aimed at reforming the current form of capitalism: conscious,breakthrough, mindful and responsible to name a few.
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  • ​​But is capitalism fundamentally flawed and do we need a much more radical response to break the concentrations of wealth and power, as proposed by those who aligned around the Occupy movement? Is it possible to have a smooth transition, or will we suffer a calamitous collapse?
  • ​​Will the need for fundamental change bring people closer together or will it raise levels of fear, leading to a further rise in extremism and protectionism? Does happiness lie in going back to a simpler life and can broader measures of success that go beyond GDP make a real difference to the ways our economies are managed?
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  • ​​These are just some of the critical questions that Guardian Sustainable Business plans to debate in our new section on rethinking prosperity. We would hugely value your help in framing the conversation and getting your recommendations on key issues we should cover.
  • ​​What questions do you think are critical and what’s your view on how to change peoples’ mindset? Where do the biggest opportunities for change reside and what solutions are you most excited by? What will drive a change so that transforming the economic system becomes the work of millions rather than remaining on the fringes of society?
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​​This is one of the more high-profile discussions of the core New Economy questions I have encountered. And I like that they are asking for help in framing it. Makes for a nice contrast with the facile way that Paul Krugman dismissed questions about the sustainability of growth in his recent NYT column.
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​New Story Hub

​​Main site: www.newstoryhub.com 
​​List of local hubs (you can form your own as well): http://newstoryhub.com/summit-hubs/ 
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  • ​​This website is designed to support the emergence of a coherent new story for humanity and to produce practical, collaborative ways to live this new story. We invite you to help us accelerate our collective understanding of what the ‘world in waiting’ holds for us, what is already emerging and what needs to change, in us and in the human story, sooner rather than later.
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  • ​​After the New Story Summit ends on 3 October, the Summit Hubs from all over the world will post information about their experience and projects and this online hub will continue to be just that – a hub for people from all over the world to meet, engage, collaborate, share information, dream, synergise and inspire each other to live a new story.
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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​Some of my favorite new paradigm thinkers, such as Duane Elgin and Lynnaea Lumbard, are gathering in Findhorn for what looks to be a potentially magical summit. Telling a new story gives us access to what Donella Meadows identified as the highest leverage point for systems change: the paradigm shift. We might imagine that such shifts are difficult to catalyze, yet when conditions are right, small actions can have large consequences. Buckminster Fuller used the metaphor of ​+the "trim tab"​ to highlight this possibility.
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​Metta Center for Nonviolence's Roadmap

​​There is also a set of active Facebook groups, with this being the main one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/roadmap.main/
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​​With the goals of Unity, Strategy, and Nonviolent Power for an unstoppable movement, ROADMAP is a way of making the movement of movements visual,  and set of tools activists (and those who wish to get active) can use to:
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  • ​​Train in Nonviolence Principles
  • ​​Create and pursue strategic thinking toward the realization of campaign goals.
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  • ​​the Roadmap MANDALA (see below)
  • ​​web-based ways  to connect with one another and benefit from many resources, such as the COMPASS, and Study Guides, and finally
  • ​​ways to build a strategy for long-term change integrated into the model itself.
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​​I love the Mandala image, which is the visual heart of Roadmap (below). For me, it illustrates beautifully both the interconnectedness of a number of "separate" movements, as well as the core strategic role that nonviolence can (must) play in achieving our aims. This strategy includes both the inner work of person power, the constructive creation of new alternatives, and non-violent resistance against the destructive forces of Business As Usual. The suggestion is that all three are necessary, and that we need to work from the inside out to be successful.
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​Disruption: a film by Kelly Nycks and Jared P. Scott

​​The full film can be viewed here: http://watchdisruption.com/ 
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​​​+Earl Koteen​ mentioned this film during the 9/18 call. Here's an excerpt from a review by Jason Mark,, in the Earth Island Journal:
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  • ​​I’ve never seen anything quite like Disruption. Of course, there have been plenty of climate change documentaries, Inconvenient Truth and Chasing Ice being standouts. Documentary films have helped spark movements (for example, Josh Fox’s Gasland, about fracking) or bolster existing ones (see Food, Inc., Robert Kenner’s Big Ag takedown). But Disruption seems to belong to a unique genre: A documentary produced with the single goal of mobilizing for a political march. It’s like an infomercial for a rally. Perhaps this has done before and I just missed it. In any case, Disruption would seem to be in a league of its own – because, even though it’s propaganda of a sort, the film is just so bloody good.
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​​Anchor institutions are nonprofit institutions that once established tend not to move location. Emerging trends related to globalization—such as the decline of manufacturing, the rise of the service sector, and a mounting government fiscal crisis—suggest the growing importance of anchor institutions to local economies. Indeed, in many places, these anchor institutions have surpassed traditional manufacturing corporations to become their region's leading employers. If the economic power of these anchor institutions were more effectively harnessed, they could contribute greatly to community wealth building. The largest and most numerous of such nonprofit anchors are universities and non-profit hospitals (often called "eds and meds"). Over the past two decades, useful lessons have been learned about how to leverage the economic power of universities in particular to produce targeted community benefits.
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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​The Democracy Collaborative does great work on strategies and models for community resilience.
​​Leveraging the power of local anchor institutions to mobilize resilience is a key strategy.
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​​Thanks, Leslie! The potential power of anchor institutions as a leverage point was among the most inspiring things I learned about in the course of our inquiry. We mentioned anchor institutions in section 2.1 of the weaving report (There Are Many Alternatives) , but I think the concept is well worth calling out more prominently. Those who are interested should also check out ​+the interview we did with John​ as part of this movement weaving initiative. Here's an excerpt:
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  • ​​I'm really excited about the energy that's emerging around changing the way "anchor institutions" relate to their communities. This is something we've been working on for a long time - we're really starting to see a shift in consciousness & best practices among major non-profits like hospitals and universities.
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  • ​​Similar to the way that the folks working on divestment are seeing a turning of the corner, we're seeing on our end that these same institutions, which control huge amounts of resources, are starting to get very intentional about how they're spending their money and using those resources.
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  • ​​We developed "the anchor dashboard:" a set of recommended metrics for measuring how an anchor institution impacts the local community to see what was & wasn't working. It's a fairly wonky piece of analysis but we've found it excites people. University officials across the country are excited about it. Student groups are using it to inspect how their universities are relating to their communities. Seeing that amount of energy around something that we see as very strategic is tremendously exciting - the amount of resources that could go toward sustaining the community instead of continuing in an exploitative and unsustainable economy.
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​​I got an email this morning from Noémi Giszpenc, Executive Director of the Cooperative Development Institute, an NEC member, and an excellent resource on all things Coop. About the very inspiring piece on workers in Maine (see excerpt below), she writes: "it's gotten over 5,800 "likes" and quite a lot of attention on Twitter. It would be great if you could help us keep spreading the word far and wide to get people's attention on this very real, positive step toward economic democracy, that *could* be the tip of the iceberg with some supportive policies at the local, State, and Federal levels."
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​​Noémi also notes that 2012 was the International Year of Cooperatives, because "Cooperative enterprises build a better world".
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​​The cooperatives movement was very prominent at CommonBound2014, and is widely seen as one of the lynchpins of the New Economy. Coops combine localism and deep democracy, two of the key themes of this movement. From their website: "Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) is the source for cooperative business development in the Northeast. CDI’s mission is to build a cooperative economy through the creation and development of successful cooperative enterprises and networks in diverse communities in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and New York.
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​​Here's an excerpt from the Maine piece:
  • ​​On remote Deer Isle, Maine, the movement for a more just and democratic economy won a major victory this summer. More than 60 employees of three retail businesses - Burnt Cove Market, V&S Variety and Pharmacy, and The Galley - banded together to buy the stores and create the largest worker cooperative in Maine and the second largest in New England.
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  • ​​Now the workers own and run the businesses together under one banner, known as the Island Employee Cooperative(IEC). This is the first time that multiple businesses of this size and scope have been merged and converted into one worker cooperative - making this a particularly groundbreaking achievement in advancing economic democracy.
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​Shareable's Events Calendar and E-Newsletter

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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​One of the more comprehensive listings of events relating to sharing, the New Economy, Community Resilience and much more. Easy to post your own events there as well. And their e-newsletter regularly captures a wide array of useful information from across the Movement.
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​​We loved learning more about Shareable's awesome work via our ​+Interview with Mira Luna​. An excerpt:
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  • ​​5 years from now, I imagine that 100 cities have created their own agenda, goals and plans for becoming Sharing Cities, and along those lines each different sector of  "the economy" (which is a limiting framework in itself) - or how we get our needs met - through food, transportation, work, finance, creative expression, housing - that all of those things are able to be met through sharing resources collectively. 
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  • ​​The community owns it own energy, owns common land together, has common telecommunications services. The commons has grown - it has been shrinking - and that this network of cities has really blossomed and is kind of taking ownership of its own destiny. That the models that are emerging are being spread through the network, virally and organically, replicating in a way that reflects each community's culture and goals. And when I say sharing I mean anything from public banking and alternative currencies, housing and food cooperatives, makerspaces and art collectives (the "fun stuff").
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​An open source pattern language for systemic interpretation and tranformation

​​Exploring how to embed into the system the code for its sustainability and renewal. Fostering factors of opportunity and renewal as commons. Leveraging agency and empowering change agents in  their own contexts across the board. Helping to achieve convergence of  disparate initiatives.
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​​Why this resource is valuable: 
​​The PL wo help "the system to be more aware of itself" as Ben mentioned in our call. By understanding the dynamics and the automatisms that are unleashed in the system in an abstract way that can help re-explain what unfolds in various logics and contexts, and to support learning and the construction of solutions more in line with intentions.
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