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Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement, quotes a brief but pointed analysis from a new report by Dr Tim Morgan called ‘The Perfect Storm: energy, finance and the end of growth‘, published by FTSE 250 company Tullett Prebon, saying: “It’s stirring stuff. His analysis of why we have ended up in our . . . → Read More: Our current economic predicament defined and the MCED way forward highlighted  Leave a comment  Books and articles, Devolution, Economics, Economy, Employee ownership, Energy, Environment, Local economies, Localisation, Planning, Poverty, Regional economies, Social Enterprise, Transition, Transition Network  community economic development, Dr Tim Morgan, Energy return on energy invested, Karen Leach, Local ownership, Localise West Midlands, REconomy, Rob Hopkins, SMEs, Transition Movement . Anna Watson’s Localise West Midlands blog about The Green Economy and Local Job Creation, reported that – as the oil supply peaks – the innovation, manufacture, marketing and repairing of products will become more economic at a local level. Small scale, sustainable employment opportunities will be created, encouraging local resourcefulness and a thriving local . . . → Read More: Enterprise in Balsall Heath: creating opportunities at local level Localise West Midland’s co-founder, Patrick Conaty, has just published a book co-authored with Mike Lewis: The Resilience imperative – Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. It examines many elements of a resilient local economy, collating and critiquing many examples of how this has been achieved all over the world over the last 150 . . . → Read More: The Resilience imperative – Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy Leave a comment Banks, Biodiversity, Books and articles, Co-operatives, Democracy, Economics, Energy, Environment, Finance, Localisation, Mutuals, Transition, Transition Network, Water Community Land Trusts, Household Budget, Kenneth Boulding, Mike Lewis, Naresh Giangrande, Pat Conaty, The Real World Coalition, Transition Network: A Guardian article by LWM’s co-founder and convenor of the Green New Deal Group, Colin Hines, is summarised here. The neoliberal export-led growth model, the increasingly discredited single currency and the utterly unchallenged single market are wrecking Europe which is facing a real nightmare: a shrinking full-time job market and hence lack of demand . . . → Read More: Face-to-face caring and infrastructural renewal will provide the backbone for a labour-intensive future Leave a comment Books and articles, Economics, Economy, Employment, EU, Export-led growth, Finance, Green New Deal, Housing, Import substitution, Local economies, Trade, Transition, Transport Colin Hines, Domestic economies, European crisis, Infrastructure programmes, Neoliberal export-led growth model, Single market “Isn’t it time to rethink our international trade policies?” asks New Delhi agricultural scientist and trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma today, just before a powerful summary of the crucial importance of a healthy environment to the global economy on Radio 4 this morning by Tony Juniper and complementing a recent article by George Monbiot. . . . → Read More: ’New’ weather demands a new politics – and economics?
Phil Beardmore, independent consultant and member of Localise West Midlands, will introduce the discussion on the new Green Commission. Is this the means to achieve Birmingham’s ambitious energy and environmental targets? Or is it going to be another bureaucratic fudge, failing to face up to the need for decisive leadership? . . . → Read More: Learn more about Birmingham’s Green Commission at the Locanta on Tuesday Summarising Cllr. John Clancy’s message: West Midlands small and medium sized businesses believe they could provide services better than companies like Capita, Serco, Amey and G4, but are effectively locked out of negotiations for contracts which could engender vitality and activity in local economies. These large companies are often the only ones that can . . . → Read More: Are corporate ‘Big Fish’ swallowing opportunities for the city’s SMEs?
Chart 4.3 in a 2011 DECC report showed that the West Midlands had highest rate of fuel poverty with around 26% of households requiring to spend more than 10% of their income on fuel to maintain an adequate level of warmth. A Chamberlain Forum article confirms that this position has been maintained, with . . . → Read More: Solving fuel poverty – an update One comment City council, Co-operatives, Council, Economy, Energy, Environment, Finance, Local economies, Local government, Localisation, Low carbon, Planning, Politics, Poverty, Regional economies, Renewable energy, Transition Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Development Plan, Birmingham Energy Savers, Carbon reduction targets, Carillion Energy Services, Chamberlain Forum, Current DECC consultation, Department for Energy and Climate Change, ECO (Energy Company Obligation), External solid wall insulation, fuel poverty, green deal, Pat Conaty, Phil Beardmore, The Green Commission, Warm Homes Healthy Communities fund A recent message came from Bob Massie, the president of the New Economics Institute, based in Massachusetts, which grew from E. F. Schumacher Society, in close partnership with Britain’s new economics foundation. It opened by saying that 2013 is likely to be a watershed year: “A tremendous number of people around the country . . . → Read More: 2013 watershed: rebuilding local economies Singapore-based Chandran Nair, think-tank founder, businessman, environmental consultant and poet, continues – in the Financial Times – to urge policy makers in Asia to turn away from the dominant Western ideology, “that got the world into its current predicament”. He eloquently expresses his belief that if Asian economies develop on the same ‘resource-guzzling terms’ . . . → Read More: Chandran Nair’s message for Asian economies – and ours? |
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