Encounters #15: Gambling with nature: A risky investment
Local communities suffer when financial markets exert power and control over increasingly scarce natural resources.
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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.
Encounters #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.
Encounters #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.
Encounters #5: The sharing economy – An economy of right relationship?
This edition of Encounters focuses on the larger, more visible, part of the collaborative economy referred to by most as the “sharing” economy, also called the “Mesh” economy and “gig” economy.
Encounters #4: Creative, hopeful strategies to build energy resiliency
In this Advent season, a season of hope and preparation for good things to come, we focus on the creative and hopeful strategies that communities and governments are employing to build energy resiliency and independence for a future without cheap oil.
Encounters #3: Facing the reality of peak oil
This edition of Encounters highlights the importance of energy for civilization as we know it and the urgent need for changes in the global economy in order to avoid the worst effects.
Encounters #2: What it takes to change
This issue of Encounters includes a report on Japan’s shifting economy, news about a Universal Basic Income, and the focus on building local food infrastructures of new farmers using sustainable farming methods, among other items.
Encounters #1: Where faith, economy and ecology meet
Each issue of our newsletter “Encounters: where faith, economy and ecology meet” 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.