Resources For Discussion And Action

"How To Share" is an amazing compendium of guides and best practices for dozens of New Economy ideas like “How to Start A Tool Library In Your Community,” “How To Help Your Neighbors Go Solar” and even “How To Make Better Decisions Together.” A project of Shareable, a nonprofit news, action and connection hub covering new and resurgent solutions that are democratizing how we produce, consume, govern, and solve social problems, you can check it out at http://www.shareable.net/how-to-share.

Break Up With Your Mega-Bank is a campaign led by GreenAmerica to help individuals and communities move their money out of Wall Street banks and into socially responsible community banks and credit union. Get some friends together and you can all break up with your Mega-Banks together. Then, afterward, eat some ice cream and talk about how free and independent you feel. More at http://breakupwithyourmegabank.org/.

The EcoMind Workshop is a resource designed by the Small Planet Institute to engage participants in Frances Moore Lappé's core idea of “changing the way we think to create the world we want.” To help us examine our core assumptions about community, democracy, hope, fear and courage in the context of today’s global challenges, as well as within ourselves and our communities, the workshop uses a range of media tools and participatory activities. Materials are available for free at http://www.smallplanet.org.

Community-wealth.org provides comprehensive resources to help start a conversation about leveraging community wealth for community needs, because we often forget that public and community institutions like schools, churches, and local government can have enormously positive or negative impacts on their communities and the world through the ways in which they spend and invest their money. http://www.community-wealth.org.

Class Action works with organizations and institutions to address class issues that undermine their ability to serve their constituents and fulfill their missions. They also hold open workshops for community members from diverse backgrounds to learn about the impact of class and classism on their individual lives, communities, workplaces, and organizing efforts. Check out their tips and tools for New Economy organizing and other resources for organizing across the class divide at http://www.classism.org/tools-new-economy.