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Farmers Markets: Scaling-up Alternative Food Networks
Hannah Wittan and Mary Beckie report on a research project to investigate the social economy’s role in scaling up sustainable food systems and in particular the role of Farmers Markets in fostering...
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Webinar: Strengthening Alternative Systems through the Diffusion of Innovation
Webinar Held on Monday, March 18th Featured Presenter: Robin Murray is an economist whose work has recently focused on co-operative development and social innovation. He was author of ‘Co-operation in...
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Webinar: Scaling innovation in community land trusts for farmland access and...
Webinar held on April 9th- Summary and Recordings Featured Presenters Hannah Wittman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute for Resources, Environment and...
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Webinar: Unleashing Local Capital- Reflections on the Process
Webinar Held April 18th This presentation examined the role of the Unleashing Local Capital Project to increase local investing in Alberta by establishing Opportunity Development Co-operatives. We...
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New BALTA SIS Webinar Series Now Running!
Webinars on topics related to BALTA’s Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS) research project have begun. Our webinars feature leading experts and researchers in the field of social innovations....
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Scaling up Alternative Food Initiatives Embedded in the Social Economy
June 24th, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Pacific Time **Note: to check when this webinar is offered in your time-zone, visit http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Despite the increasing growth and attention to...
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Webinar June 18th featuring Elizabeth Sheehan from Climate Smart
Date and Time: June 18th, 9:00- 11:00AM Pacific Time ** To find out when this webinar is offered in your time zone, visit: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Description: Elizabeth Sheehan, the...
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New review of the Resilience Imperative: Ed Mayo finds the book that joins...
Ed Mayo finds the book that joins the dots. The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy by Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty. New Society Publishers, 2012. ISBN:...
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Aurora Online Interview: Michael Lewis on the Resilience Imperative
Interview by Deb Schrader Michael Lewis is the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal and is well-known internationally as a practitioner, author, educator and leader in the...
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‘Community Land Trust’: Vancouver’s Affordable Housing Fix?- Tyee Article
On May 15, Vancouver city council approved a staff proposalto build 355 units of rental housing on four city-owned sites, to be operated by four community land trust partners. Mike Lewis praises the...
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The Viable Systems Model, A Complexity Management Approach for Sustainability Presentation held on September 18, 2013 Presentation slides: Download here Angela Espinosa is a Senior Lecturer at Hull...
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BALTA Researcher Recognized with National Award in the UK
Congratulations to Pat Conaty for receiving the CDFI Hero Award at the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards at last week’s Community Finance conference, organised by the Community Development Finance...
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UNRISD Launches an Occasional Paper Series on Social and Solidarity Economy
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) recently launched a series on social and solidarity economy. This series is the result of the UNRISD international conference on...
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New Social Economy Film from Europe
Director Sofia Papachristou and cinematographer Kostas Papanastasatos travelled for one month through several European countries, in order to interview and document social-cooperative enterprises. The...
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U.S Blog Highlights Work by BALTA-Linked Practitioners
A recent U.S. blog by Ted Wysocki of the Institute of Cultural Affairs-USA focuses on some of the work of Pat Conaty, both BALTA linked and other, and references a number of developments and...
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BALTA Collaborator, Pat Conaty’s, Recent Speaking Tour in Korea
UK-based BALTA collaborator, Pat Conaty, recently completed a very successful speaking tour in Seoul, Korea, focusing particularly on co-operative place-making and the benefits of community land...
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”Humanizing the Economy” Book to be Published in Greek and Korean
Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, by BALTA researcher, John Restakis, is being published in Korean and Greek editions. The book, initially published in English in 2010 by New...
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New Short Video re the Commons, Co-operative Economy and Sustainability
The Edge Funders Alliance has produced a short (5 min.) film, “Better, Not More”, made by Mark Decena. The film includes short vignettes from various participants in a 2014 meeting in Germany on...
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European Based Participants in Synergia Network Meet in London
Synergia is an international network that evolved out of BALTA to promote work on converging the co-operative, commons, peer-to-peer and sustainability transition movements and agendas. European based...
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“The Resilience Imperative” Book Published in French and Korean Versions
The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy, originally published in English by New Society Publishers in 2012, has recently been published in French and Korean...
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