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David Bollier’s Commons Blog

November 17, 2015

Melissa Scanlan

New Economy Law Center Fellow, David Bollier, has an active blog on the commons – check it out! Commons Blog

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David Bollier’s Commons Blog

Consum Cooperativa: Feeding 3 Million in the Spanish Mediterranean May 15, 2019
Can cooperative grocery stores compete with large investor-owned grocery chains? Consum, in Spain, shows it is possible to be a worker and consumer-owned grocery coop with strong sustainability practices AND be the largest grocery chain in the Spanish Mediterranean. Consum has more worker-owners in Spain than all of the worker owned cooperatives across every industry in […]
Rebecca Milaschewski
NELC fellow, Bill McKibben, talking about climate in The New Yorker; NELC co-founder, Gus Speth’s response May 2, 2019
McKibben, Notes from a Remarkable Political Moment for Climate Change, read more. May 7, 2019 (Gus Speth). I greatly admire and agree with Bill McKibben’s kick-off contribution. I have followed Bill into jail and would do so again, and agreeing with him in many contexts has proven graciously easy. I do want to lay out […]
Rebecca Milaschewski
Craft Beer: 100% Employee-Owned, Organic, and Powered by Renewables April 28, 2019
The craft beer market in the U.S. has exploded, but where can you find a company that is democratically owned, producing organic beer, and 100 percent powered by renewables? Cerveses Lluna brews its beer in Alcoi, Spain, where it is committed to creating good jobs, local sourcing, and sustainable production. NELC co-founder, Melissa Scanlan, interviewed […]
Rebecca Milaschewski
The Making Of A Democratic Economy- November 14th in Chase! November 12, 2018
The New Economy Law Center presents “The Making of a Democratic Economy” with speaker Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President of The Democracy Collaborative. At a time when the nation is hungry for a positive vision for our economy – when 71 percent of Americans say they believe the economic system is rigged against them – […]
Rebecca Milaschewski
Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) October 4, 2018
With an analysis sure to challenge the assumptions of both progressives and conservatives, Greenfield explores corporations’ claims to constitutional rights and the foundational conflicts about their obligations in society. He argues that a blanket opposition to corporate personhood is misguided, since it is consistent with both the purpose of corporations and the Constitution itself that […]
Rebecca Milaschewski
Zephyr Teachout speaks about Transforming Politics September 4, 2018
https://livestream.com/vermontlawschool/new-economy-forum/videos/166241450 With the upcoming midterms and so much energy put into politics, I thought it a good time to revisit the 4th talk in the Fall 2017 New Economy Law and Policy Forum. In it, Zephyr Teachout focuses on campaign finance and other reforms needed to transform politics in the US. For more resources about campaign […]
Melissa Scanlan
McKibben RADIO FREE VERMONT, A FABLE OF RESISTANCE, 2017 August 10, 2018
In his latest book (and first novel), NELC Fellow, Bill McKibben, takes his resistance angst and turns it into a love letter to Vermont, local craft beer, human-scale economies and decision making like “Town Meeting Day,” and Ethan Allen. With humor, he tells a tale of seceding as a protest against the big impersonal political […]
Melissa Scanlan
Running for Elected Office August 7, 2018
https://livestream.com/vermontlawschool/new-economy-forum/videos/165794519 This is the introductory panel of elected officials in our 3rd session in the Fall 2017 New Economy Law and Policy Forum on energizing democracy. This all day workshop was a non-partisan free program to teach people how to run for elected office. For more videos from the day and additional resources on running […]
Melissa Scanlan
Purdy “The Roberts Court Protects the Powerful for a New Gilded Age” in New York Times, Jun. 28, 2018 July 31, 2018
Jedediah Purdy, law professor and author of a chapter in Law for the New Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic, (Melissa K. Scanlan ed., May 2017), reacted to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement in his recent opinion in the New York Times. Focusing on the Supreme Court’s union-crippling decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Purdy details the Roberts […]
Melissa Scanlan
Gar Alperovitz talks about The New Economy and the Quietly Emerging Next System July 19, 2018
https://livestream.com/vermontlawschool/new-economy-forum/videos/163824520 This was the first talk in the New Economy Law and Policy Forum in October of 2017. For additional resources on this topic and action steps, visit our associated web pages.
Melissa Scanlan