The Italian chapter for the Economy for the Common Good - or Economia del Bene Comune (EBC) - will kick off their new training course for Common Good consultants. The objective is to provide professionals with the tools and knowledge so they can support companies to generate a positive social and environmental impact, by [...]
Cologne, Germany | The council alliance of the Greens, CDU and Volt wants to popularize the Economy for the Common Good and encourage municipal and commercial companies to draw up a Common Good Balance. The council actors have already picked a city company: The Cologne Baths. Niklas Kienitz, CDU, says from an urban development [...]
The city of Eschlikon, with a total of 4,500 inhabitants, is located about 30 minutes by car south of Lake Constance, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. Since last summer, the innovative and visionary community presidents and city officials have been working on the balancing process, which will be completed this summer. Thanks to the [...]
Castellón is a Spanish province in the northern part of the Valencian Community and a popular tourist destination. It is also a region, where the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) is spreading and reaching ever more people and businesses. The Valencian ECG Association is advising small and large companies on how to reorient [...]
The economy as it operates today has too many undesirable effects on people and the planet. Hundreds of companies and various governments worldwide, therefore, look towards the new economic model Economy for the Common Good (ECG). Democracy is an essential part of that. In an article in the Belgian DeWereldMorgen, Christian Felber, the initiator, [...]
Joint session organized by ECG's Youth Hub and Rethinking Economics India, an international network of students, academics and professionals, building better economics in society and the classroom, on July 31st at 3:30 pm CEST. You will hear about an international perspective on activism in economics. Link to meeting: https://redirect.econgood.org/JugendDACH-Workshops
The London Metropolitan University is hosting a Cultural Commons series of talks and workshops that are to develop emerging research on the topic of cultural commons and how their deployment and development can address social and planetary justice. On Tuesday 13 July 2021, 5:00pm to 6:30pm Bridget Knapper, one of the founding Directors of [...]
The Economy for the Common Good (ECG) is a global social movement working on repurposing the economic system towards the wellbeing for people and nature. Despite the Corona pandemic, the movement keeps thriving, especially in Latin America. Luciana Cornaglia from Argentina was elected as a new member of the international management team. While globally, [...]
Leading NGOs working on corporate sustainability and sustainable finance have published a briefing with key recommendations to help clarify directors’ responsibilities to oversee sustainability that fully fits with existing company law and corporate governance frameworks across Europe. The ECG is part of the initiative working towards ensuring effective EU reforms. The briefing follows a [...]
“It may sound like a paradox but it is possible to grow the economy without raising GDP, if we widen the definition of the economy to take account of human wellbeing and nature”, says IASS Affiliate Scholar Christian Felber, the founder of the Economy for the Common Good. A fierce battle is raging around [...]
