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Sustainable Development and the Community Economy

Sustainable Development and the Community Economy. Stephen Healy Department of Geosciences February 18, 2004. Community Economy. Different understanding of economy Reorients our ambitions and ethical sensibilities Different conception of self-economy-environment.

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Sustainable Development and the Community Economy

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  1. Sustainable Development and the Community Economy Stephen Healy Department of Geosciences February 18, 2004

  2. Community Economy • Different understanding of economy • Reorients our ambitions and ethical sensibilities • Different conception of self-economy-environment

  3. “It’s a global economy, obviously.”

  4. Export Base Theory Wages retail sales housing demand service jobs $$$$$ Exports

  5. Export Base Theory Taxes schools fire police $$$$$ other services Exports

  6. “It’s a global economy, obviously.” all we can do is insert ourselves, to get a piece of the pie $$ I.T. Casino Biotech

  7. $ Per Job Indiana paid United Airlines $72K per job Alabama paid Mercedes $169K per job Pennsylvania paid Kaerner ASA $323K per job

  8. Other problems . . . • The actual number of jobs may be far less than the number promised. • The jobs may not go to people in the community. • Profits are not necessarily invested locally. • The company can always leave when conditions are no longer favorable. $$$$$ Exports

  9. Negative “Externalities”

  10. With Globalization, Your Community is a Node in the Global Economy or It is Nothing

  11. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY cowering communities

  12. The Economy as Master Signifier “Sometimes it is necessary to give up quality of life in order to get quality of life.” Freud

  13. Privatization of Fisheries

  14. Privatization of Fisheries

  15. Privatization of Fisheries

  16. This is the economy most people recognize. This is a more inclusive view of the economy.

  17. Community Economy/Diverse Economy TransactionsLaborOrganizational Form MARKET WAGE CAPITALIST Alternative Market Alternative Paid Alternative Capitalist Local trading systems Co-operators Environmental ethic Alternative currencies Self-employed Social ethic Underground market Indentured labor State enterprise Barter In kind Not for profit Work for welfare Non-Market Unpaid Non-Capitalist Household flows Volunteer Communal Gifts Housework Independent Indigenous exchange Family care Feudal Theft Slave

  18. Community Economy/Diverse Economy TransactionsLaborOrganizational Form MARKET WAGE CAPITALIST Alternative Market Alternative Paid Alternative Capitalist Local trading systems Co-operators Environmental ethic Alternative currencies Self-employed Social ethic Underground market Indentured labor State enterprise Barter In kind Not for profit Work for welfare Non-Market Unpaid Non-Capitalist Household flows Volunteer Communal Gifts Housework Independent Indigenous exchange Family care Feudal Theft Slave

  19.         well-being   $ 

  20.    well-being         $

  21.    wellbeing         $

  22. Nuestras Raices Holyoke, Massachusetts community gardens & market gardens

  23. Nuestras Raices Holyoke, Massachusetts Nuestras youth are often involved in selling produce at the Mercado stand in Holyoke. El Mercado

  24. Nuestras Raices Holyoke, Massachusetts Centro Agricola

  25. Nuestras Raices Holyoke, Massachusetts Currently sells to CSAs and markets throughout the region: Holyoke Farmers' Market Cornucopia Table & Vine State St Market Serio's Market Chandler’s Restaurant Leverett Food Co-op Millstone Market Tailgate Picnic Food Bank Farm Riverbend Farm Ol'Turtle Farm Brookfield Farm El Jardin Bakery

  26. Nuestras Raices Model of Development * actively involves the community * builds on what people already know * attempts to deliver what they specifically need

  27. Nuestras Raices Holyoke, Massachusetts For Nuestras, economic development, health and well-being are inseparable from the environmental realities of Holyoke,

  28. Holyoke Health Center

  29. wages other costs surplus 10 % social fund (by law) 20% retained earnings 70% dividends to cooperators

  30. 2002

  31. Principles 1. Open admission 2. Democratic organization 3. Sovereignty of labor 4. Instrumental character of capital 5. Self-management 6. Pay solidarity 7. Group cooperation 8. Social transformation 9. Universal nature 10. Education

  32. Mararikulam Experiment • Literacy rates above 90% • Low infant mortality rate • Life expectancy above 70 years

  33. Mararikulam Experiment is one of the most important recent attempts to create an alternative to globalization and to create a world based more on social justice than on “free trade” and profit. -R.W. Franke

  34. Mararikulam Experiment The Pledge

  35. Mararikulam Experiment Fishing in Kerala

  36. Mararikulam Experiment Health Care Clinic

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