Encounters #15: Gambling with nature: A risky investment
Local communities suffer when financial markets exert power and control over increasingly scarce natural resources.
Encounters
Each issue of Encounters will feature the challenges posed by the current economic growth paradigm and shine light on the hopeful ways communities are responding to protect human dignity and God’s beautiful Creation.
Encounters #14: Trade in a New Economy
As trade representatives from the United States, Canada, and Mexico meet today to begin renegotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), we name areas of the agreement that need to be revised in order to be more equitable, inclusive and sustainable.
Encounters #13: Solidarity Economy in Brazil, Part 3
In this issue of Encounters, we examine how the most advanced alternative economic system in the world – the solidarity economy in Brazil – is responding to current political and economic challenges.
Ecounters #12: Solidarity Economy in Brazil, Part 2
In this issue of Encounters, we examine of the organizational structure of the most advanced alternative economic system in the world – the solidarity economy in Brazil.
Encounters#11: Building an energy democracy
In this issue of Encounters, we look at the need to build an energy democracy and some of the places where it is already happening.
Ecounters #10: Solidarity Economy in Brazil, Part I
In this issue of Encounters, we examine one of the most advanced alternative economic systems in the world – the solidarity economy in Brazil.
Encounter #9: Laudato Si' and Corporations
In this issue of Encounters, we look at the encyclical from the perspective of FEET’s fourth pillar, the need for a return of corporations to their proper place in society.
Encounter #8: Laudato Si' and FEET's second pillar
In this issue of Encounters, we look at the encyclical from the perspective of FEET’s second pillar, the need for public policies that support an economy of right relationship, to guarantee a decent future for the next generations.
Encounters #7: Laudato Si' and FEET's first pillar
In the next few Encounters, we will look at the encyclical from the perspective of FEET’s four pillars, the key areas where we feel that change is needed in order to guarantee a decent future for the next generations.
Encounters #6: Moving into the collaborative economy
In this issue of Encounters, we explore the distributed production, peer-to-peer financing, and open source knowledge aspects of the collaborative economy.