Written by Meaghan Burkett Localising Supply Chains in Newcastle to facilitate local growth, sustainability and resilience. Newcastle aims to be a smart, liveable and sustainable global city. Supporting this overarching plan is the City of Newcastle’s (CN) Economic...
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Building Community Wealth in Ballarat
Written by Meaghan Burkett Community Wealth Building is a fast-growing regional and economic development approach in Australia that can improve the prosperity, wellbeing, self-reliance and resilience of regions and local people. It is an established and successful...
A Very Long Post About Community Wealth Building
This post is designed to take someone that doesn't really know anything about Community Wealth Building and give you a reasonable understanding of all the elements that make it possible on a single page.What Is Community Wealth Building All About? Community Wealth...
Start Ups and Community Wealth Building
Written by Moira Were (AM) Exit strategies for start ups tend to be thought of in terms of IPOs – initial public offering – where a company floats on the stock market by selling shares to investors. Those investors can be institutional and non-institutional, the...
Regional and Economic Development via Community Wealth Building
Community Wealth Building is a regional and economic development field and movement.
First Nations – The First Community Wealth Builders
Paying our respects to elders, past, present and emerging helps us plumb ourselves into our colonial experience as non-indigenous Australians. At Ethical Fields we come from many lands, and we all have settler heritage in the Australian context.
Super True Profit and Regenerative Agriculture
A definition for Regenerative AgricultureThere are many arguments about what is and what is not Regenerative Agriculture. In the wise words of Bruce Ward: Regenerative Agriculture is when you make a "True Profit". A True Profit: 2 PartsA "true profit" for...
Confusopoly When It Comes To Farmers and Environmental Markets
ConfusopolyThe Environmental Goods and Services market is a Confusopoly. This isn't by accident. Such market conditions is where brokers thrive due to information asymmetry.What is a Confusopoly?The Customers Environmental markets are booming world wide. Theses...
A Gift To Those Practising Regenerative Agriculture.
What's the gift? The late Bruce Ward was considered a great educator of Holistic Management. He enjoyed a close relationship with Allan Savory and was personally responsible for training thousands of farmers across Australia and New Zealand in Holistic Management. ...
What do middle aged women in Australia and Korean 18-25 year olds have in common?
This year we've had the pleasure to get to know Jose - one of the Co Founders of Mondragon Team Academy (MTA). MTA along with The New School (New York), have convened the global Platform Co-operatives Now course. In our recent chat, we discussed the "global trends"...