ForstBW is the first state-owned company in Baden-Württemberg, Germany to complete a Common Good Balance Sheet. ForstBW administers all public forests in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. "The Balance Sheet is a comprehensive and transparent presentation of the company's orientation towards the Common Good. The external audit certifies that the work is being done [...]
With the decision to draw up a Common Good Balance Sheet for the first time, the private insurance company Vorarlberger Landesversicherung (Austrian Life Insurance) has set itself the goal of helping improve business practices in all industries and helping companies reorient towards the common good. Between January 2019 and May 2020, the insurance company [...]
Christian Felber, initiator of the Economy for the Common Good, hands over the certificate for the Common Good Balance Sheet to Heinz-Josef Senneka, representing the mayor, Carsten Torke, during a ceremony at the city hall of Steinheim at the beginning of September 2020. This is the first city in Germany to have drawn up [...]
Lilly Germany is the first pharmaceutical company to commit itself to the goals of the Economy for the Common Good. Nicole Weichelt and Oliver Stahl have accompanied the process from the beginning. Health Relations, the German publisher of medical publications, has interviewed Nicole Weichelt and Oliver Stahl about the obstacles, competitive advantages and the [...]
The course "Economy for the Common Good in the agricultural and food industry" was accepted to participate in the specialist program 2020 "LEHREn - Das Bündnis für Hochschullehre" (alliance for university teaching). The Toepfer Foundation selected the team of Prof. Dr. Christian Herzig, Johanna Stöhr and the coordinator of the Service Learning Center of [...]
Students of 180 Degrees, the world's largest consultantcy for non-profits and social enterprises, are conducting a survey for the Economy for the Common Good. It takes about five to ten minutes to answer the 22 questions about our work and fundraising activities. The survey is fully anonymous and your answers contain no information about [...]
Michael Blasius (BKK ProVita), Anna Zipse and Norman Elmers (both Polarstern), Christina Otzmann (BKK ProVita) | Photo: M. Blasius The ECG health insurer BKK ProVita put three charging points for electric vehicles into operation last Friday. At the headquarters of the company in southern Germany, so-called wall boxes, each with two charging points, are [...]
Christian Felber’s, “Provocation: Can trade be for Good?” is now available online. He discussed the issues of free trade versus protectionism, and introduced a new approach to global world trade as part of the Festival For Change. ECG is an official partner of this online event, which wants to give young people 25 [...]
The petition proposal was recommended by a panel of experts. It advocates the introduction of the Common Good Product, measuring the well-being of the population, alongside the gross domestic product (GDP). A gigantic event, 12062020, – with up to 90,0000 participants – was planned to take place at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on [...]
Christian Felber, initiator of the ECG, joined Ubiquity University for its Global Solutions Summit Humanity Rising. He joined the discussion about alternative economic systems at minute 26:05 in the video above. The goal of the summit is to create an international coalition strong enough to transform conversations that matter into actions that make [...]
