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 [...]
Santa Coloma de Queralt is a rural municipality in Catalonia with an agricultural tradition and approximately 3,000 inhabitants. It has one of the largest populations in the County La Conca de Barberà. Earlier this year, the government decided to bring the municipality closer to the values of the Economy for the Common Good: human [...]
An initiative in Valencia called "Transforming our world, teaching in principles and values of the Economy of the Common Good in Vocational Training" introduces students and teachers in the field of Administration and Finance to the Economy for the Common Good. The objective is to bring the core values of the Economy for the [...]
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 [...]
Futurlab, the laboratory of the organization "Las Naves" hosts a conference on the Economy for the Common Good on November 12 (10:15 - 14:00) in Valencia and online, in Spanish: Futur·lab, el laboratorio de Las Naves que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer acciones e iniciativas que inspiren la construcción de un futuro mejor, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
