NEW ECONOMY: The Onion River Exchange: Your Central Vermont Time Bank
by Heather Kralik and Chloe Budnick Time banking is not a grand, new idea; it is a common-sense approach of using what we have, sharing our social capital—our time, skills and talents—to provide a...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: A Farmer’s Plea for a State-Owned Bank in Vermont
by Ignatio Villa In Vermont, we have all been thinking outside the box. Let’s keep doing it and create a new economy. I moved to Vermont three years ago to work on an exciting piece of that new...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: The Food Energy Challenge
by Richard Czaplinski One of the many challenges of the new economy will be to clearly understand how our fossil fuel energy consumption and the resulting climate change impact the food we eat. It...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: A New Bank to Build a New Economy
by Anthony Pollina, Washington County senator Building a new economy has to include new ways to access capital to invest in new priorities. The best way to do it? Establish a Vermont state partnership...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: How a State Bank Can Solve the State Budget Crisis
by Ellen Brown and Gwendolyn Hallsmith As the state legislature struggles through one budget crisis after another, it is becoming increasingly evident that austerity doesn’t work. We cannot possibly...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: Building the New Economy in Vermont with Local Money
by Amy Kirschner “That’s a great idea! If only I had the money to do it.” That’s a statement you’ve likely heard before and maybe even thought yourself at one time or another. It seems like the main...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: Vermont’s Genuine Progress Indicator
by Eric Zencey Last spring, Vermont became the second state to officially endorse the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and the first to do so by statute. (In Maryland, the GPI research was authorized...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: The Best Things in Life Aren’t Things
by Tom Barefoot and Paula Francis Nobel economist, Joseph Stiglitz likes to say, “What you measure is what you get.” If we measure happiness and well-being, we begin to measure what is important to us,...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: Reversing Privatization for a Real New Economy
by Gary Flomenhoft Vermonters are leading the way to the new economy we are describing here, but we are doing it in an environment that is full of challenge. National and international trends toward...
View ArticleNEW ECONOMY: Getting Outta the Box: The New Economy
Brought to you by the steering committee of Vermonters for a New Economy: Tom Barefoot, Richard Czaplinski, Gary Flomenhoft, Paula Francis, Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Debbie Ingram, Dan Jones and Amy...
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