Meeting essential needs locally

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4 publications

• Free, Fair and Alive

  The insurgent power of the commons.

  David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, New Society Publishers, September 2019

• Localization: Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness

  Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture, United States, 2014

• Good Morning, Beautiful Business. The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer.

  Judy Wicks, Chelsea Green Publishing, United States, 2012

• Local Dollars, Local Sense How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity

  Michael H. Shuman, Chelsea Green Publishing, United States, 2011

A thesis

• Social Inventors for Territories where Life can be Lived Martine Theveniaut - Detailed Summary 2015

  Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Sociology, supervised by Jean-Louis Laville,Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Paris, presented in 2007 and updated between 2014 and 2015.

  Martine Theveniaut, 2015

5 Videos

• The Power of Local

  Community solutions to our global crises

  2024

  Local Futures

• Closer to Home

  Voices of Hope in a Time of Crises

  2024

  Local Futures

• ATIS: Territories Association and Social Innovation - Aquitaine, France

  December 2015

  SUSY

• A Localist Agenda: Policy and Politics for Building a Community-Scaled Economy

  August 2014

• Building Resilient Local Economies through Local Investment: Michael Shuman (Post Carbon Institute)

  October 2012

A pedagogical tool

• Vermont Dollars Vermont Sense. A handbook for investors, Businesses, Finance Profesionnals, and Everybody Else

  Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Michael H. Shuman, 2015

15 case studies

• Renewing the City through Public Participation and Cultural Activities. The Case Study of Gillet Square, a Community-Led Urban Regeneration Project.

  JEOD, Volume 8, Issue 1

  Michele Bianchi, 2019

• How Communities Can Regenerate Urban Contexts. The Case Study of Hackney Co-operative Development.

  Euricse Working Papers, 87|16

  Michele Bianchi, 2016

• Solidarity economy strengthens peasant agriculture and food sovereignty Workshop at the WSF 2013.

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #99

  Yvon Poirier, Judith Hitchman, June 2013

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• The Deccan Development Society in India

  International Newsletter for Sustainable Local Development Newsletter #94

  Judith Hitchman, Martine Theveniaut, December 2012

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Cloughjourdan - An Irish Eco-village

  Judith Hitchman, December 2011

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Nekasarea: a Basque network serving the everyday struggle for Food Sovereignty

  A network of consumers and producers organized beyond community supported agriculture (CSA)

  Jocelyn Parot, December 2010

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development, Urgenci

• The Association Terre de Liens: An example in Echausses, France of multi-purpose property

  Martine Theveniaut, May 2010

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Transition Towns, UK

  Judith Hitchman, October 2009

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Collective farm shops and AMAP (French CSA) in southwest France. Commitment and delegation on the part of producers and consumers.

  Stéphane Girou, May 2008

• URGENCI: An international network of Local and Solidarity based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers

  3rd International Symposium

  Judith Hitchman, February 2008

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Inner City Development Cooperative (Quezon City, Philippines)

  An original savings and loans initiative for the urban poor

  Yvon Poirier, December 2007

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Linking the Global and the Local: the vision the Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-Operative Union (Japan)

  Yvon Poirier, July 2007

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• City of God (Cidade de Deus) in Rio de Janeiro

  The challenge of local development linked to community action

  Caio Silveira, April 2007

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• ASSEFA : 35 Years of Service to Rural Communities of India

  A holistic approach to community development

  Yvon Poirier, October 2004

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Stories from an Appalachian Community

  Twentieth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2000, Salisbury, Connecticut

  Marie Cirillo, 2000

  NEI

8 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Italian Community Co-operatives: Structuration of Community Development Processes in Italy

  Review of Social Economy

  Michele Bianchi, December 2021

• How social profiles influence community entrepreneurs’ capacity to develop networks. A Bourdieuan perspective on Italian community co-operatives

  Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal. 2021

  Michele Bianchi, 2021

• Co-operatives, territories and social capital: reconsidering a theoretical framework

  Michele Bianchi, Marcelo Alejandro Vieta, September 2020

• Is eating a settler-colonial act? Food justice and Indigenous sovereignty

  Article of ABC Religion and Ethics

  October 2018

• Summary of phase 2 of the web forum to prepare for the RIPESS meeting in Manila - Alternative markets for SSE products and services: How can we make further advances in this aspect?

  5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Martine Theveniaut, October 2013

  P’Actes Européens - European Pacts

• Summary of phase 1 of the web forum to prepare for the RIPESS meeting in Manila - Theme 2: SSE initiatives in the territories

  5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Martine Theveniaut, October 2013

  P’Actes Européens - European Pacts

• Policies for Shareable Cities. A SHARING ECONOMY POLICY PRIMER FOR URBAN LEADERS.

  Shareable and The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), September 2013

• Building sustainable and ethical food futures through economic diversity: Options for a mid-sized city

  Paper Presented at the Policy Workshop on The Future of Australia’s Mid-Sized Cities. Latrobe University, Bendigo, VIC, 28 & 29 Sept.

  Jenny Cameron, Rhyall Gordon, September 2010

2 public contributions

• Local Stock Exchanges: The Next Wave of Community Economy Building

  Michael H. Shuman, October 2007

• Moving Toward Community: From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence

  Helena Norberg-Hodge, 1999

  NEI

4 articles

• Rethinking and regenerating our economies | RIPESS Europe’s 13th General Assembly

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, February 2024

  Ruby Van der Wekken, Jason Nardi, July 2024

  RIPESS Europe

• Action Against Wildfires: Empowering Communities

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, February 2024

  Georgia Bekridaki, February 2024

  RIPESS Europe, Dock Social Solidarity Zone

• Localists of all the world, unite!

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, October 2023

  Ruby Van der Wekken, Jason Nardi, October 2023

  RIPESS Europe, Commons.FI

• Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root Over decades of poverty, Detroiters have fostered a resilient informal economy based on trust.

  Article of In These Times, June 29, 2017

  Valerie Vande Panne, June 2017

  In these times