What is a New Economy?

Fall 2017

Designing a Sustainable Future: A New economy as if People Mattered

Music: Bruce Springsteen, "My Oklahoma Home," Seeger Sessions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9O3b2VsHY0

Session Two: What is a New Economy?

Essential questions:

• What is the New Economy Movement?

• What are the challenges facing the US  economic system?

• What are some possible remedies to these challenges?

Gathering: After looking at the Preferred State, Present State or Incubator ideas that we have created, I would like to add the following idea…”

Video:  “The Story of Solutions” – the Story of Stuff Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkRvc-sOKk

            • Refective Sentence Starters

Video: “The Next System” – The Next System Project  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6z4yDu3gco

            • Refective Sentence Starters

           

Exercise:  Solutions Incubator

Closing: Something that I learned in this session was…..

Readings:

• Gar Alaparvitz, “Rise of the New Economy Movement,” Alternet, May 22, 2012 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/05/22/rise-new-economy-movement

• Gus Speith, “Manifest for a Post-Growth Economy,”  Yes! Magazine, September 19, 2012

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/Manifesto-for-a-post-growth-economy-james-gustaves-speth

           

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

                                                Eleanor Roosevelt