Community stories & examples

Use Gross National Happiness Index to measure the impact of your project or to conduct your own Happiness Initiative in your town, city, neighborhood, place of work or with your…

This series features innovative strategies at the business and network levels that effectively make the case for local and result in more buying and thinking Local First. We know driving…

Tamarack is a charity that develops and supports learning communities that help people to collaborate, co-generate knowledge and achieve collective impact on complex community issues. The Learning Centre, established in…

Center for Whole Communities is a land-based leadership development organization. We foster the innovative and collaborative responses from different sectors of the environmental and social movements that are necessary to…

This section of the REconomy website includes case studies from trailblazer enterprises and some posts outlining features and visions of the new economy. Collectively these start to paint a picture…

A Resilience Circle is a small group of 10 – 20 people that comes together to increase personal security during these challenging times. Circles have three purposes: learning, mutual aid,…

“Over the space of just 20 years a handful of big companies have taken over large swaths of our economy. Our banking system, diversified as recently as the 1990s, is…

Resilience.org supports the building of community responses to the many inter-related crises of our time. Resilience.org provides a daily stream of news and articles on Energy, Economy, Environment, Food &…

A green economy is not business as usual — with some clean technology added in. The transition is more fundamental and more exciting. It requires rethinking work and productivity, and…

The Resilience Capacity Index (RCI) is a single statistic summarizing a region’s status on twelve factors hypothesized to influence the ability of a region to bounce back from a future…

PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works.Founded in 1999, PolicyLink connects the work of people on the ground to…

The Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) has worked for fifteen years to revitalize the lower Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, building affordable housing, rehabbing dilapidated buildings and training residents…