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ECG city Stuttgart wins the German Sustainability Award 2022

2021-12-08T15:57:26+01:00December 8th, 2021|

Stuttgart was the first German city to have four municipal companies audited according to ECG's criteria. It also encourages private companies to draw up a Common Good Balance Sheet with the support program "Sustainably fit for tomorrow". Stuttgart was now awarded the German Sustainability Award 2022 for being Germany's most sustainable city. The award is [...]

Launch of the New Economies Programme LATAM 2022

2022-12-12T17:02:20+01:00November 15th, 2021|

Estamos apoyando el lanzamiento del *Programa de Introducción a Nuevas Economías* Edición 2 - Online para todo Latinoamérica. ¡Empieza en febrero 2022!  Christian Felber and Luciana Cornaglia from the International Federation of the ECG will give a presentation at the launch of the New Economies Programme (P.I.N.E.). This is a three-month online course on [...]

First university in Germany to present a Common Good Balance Sheet

2021-11-01T16:43:09+01:00November 1st, 2021|

The Technical University of Nuremberg is the first state university in Germany to present a Common Good Balance Sheet. At the Common Good Congress at the Technical University of Nuremberg, the university has now been awarded for this step, together with other organizations and companies. The official ceremony took place in the presence of [...]

Self-interest is woven into the fabric of neoclassical economics

2021-11-01T09:25:53+01:00November 1st, 2021|

Originally published at Renegade Inc. on October 29, 2021. Famously, the broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough said that someone who believes in infinite growth is either a madman or an economist. One of the big problems we face today is that in our hunt for growth, mainstream economics has been taken over by madmen. [...]

Common Good Product Now! Global initiative calls on G20 leaders to replace Gross Domestic Product with a future-fit successor

2021-11-01T08:57:58+01:00November 1st, 2021|

In light of climate change, the Covid crisis, biodiversity decline, and growing inequality, there is an ever-increasing worldwide consensus that fundamental changes in our economies are urgently needed. As a result, on the occasion of the G20 summit in Rome on 30-31 October 2021, an alliance of leading voices from the area of sustainable [...]

Global G20 Common Good Product Campaign

2022-08-29T20:43:26+02:00October 25th, 2021|

The Economy for the Common Good is launching the G20 Common Good Product campaign under the title “Rebalance our Economy” today, 25 October – and you can be part of it. Help us to promote a new way of thinking economics. Help us to let people discover an alternative way of measuring economic success. [...]

Economy for the Common Good invited at Worldwide Meeting on Human Values, 22-23 October

2021-10-18T14:34:09+02:00October 18th, 2021|

ECG is part of the XIII Worldwide Meeting on Human Values (Encuentro Mundial de Valores) held completely online from 22-23 October. It is organized in alliance with the international organization Charter for Compassion (CFC) that works in 54 countries promoting its message of compassion. After an inauguration speech by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the [...]

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