Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods: Decolonizing & Reindigenizing Our Relationships (Rebroadcast)

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Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community.

She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony.

Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.

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Interview Highlights:

• Kanyon CoyoteWoman speaks to her experience as an ancestor in training and as an indigenous entrepreneur

• The importance of establishing authentic relationship through asking, listening, respecting, humility, & permission

• Why we should be shifting policy to authentically understand & respect local indigenous cultures

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Aaron Tanaka: Creating a Just, Regenerative, and Democratic Economy (Rebroadcast)

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As we dip into the holiday season, we will be reposting some of our most popular episodes of all time from the Next Economy Now podcast. This is from our March 2019 interview with Aaron Tanaka, founder and Director of the Boston-based Center for Economic Democracy. Aaron is also a community organizer, grant-maker, impact investor, and a founding organizer of the Boston Ujima Project, which brings together neighbors, workers, business owners and investors to create a new community-controlled regional economy. He is an Echoing Green and BALLE Fellow, and co-chair of the national New Economy Coalition and the Asian American Resource Workshop.

Some highlights from Ryan Honeyman’s Conversation with Aaron Tanaka include:

• How Aaron got into the work he is doing today

• Aaron’s thoughts on democratizing capital and the launch of the Boston Ujima Project

• How social entrepreneurs can get more involved in grassroots activism and movement building

• The balance between creating examples of Next Economy solutions and organizing for policy change at the government level

• Aaron’s thoughts on how folks can help create the Next Economy 

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Noran Sanford, Ravin Patel, & Norman Garcia-Lopez: "Flip Your Prison" with Growing Change

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Founder of Growing Change, Noran Sanford grew up in an abusive, working-class Scot-Irish family in rural North Carolina. Ever since a young age he had a strong sense of justice, and took a stand against racism in his home even though it meant getting knocked down.

Scholarships for community involvement in high school helped Noran attend university at UNC-Chapel Hill. There he co-founded one of the few college Habitat for Humanity chapters in the country and, when then-President Reagan’s policies resulted in large populations of people shifting from mental health institutions to homeless shelters, he rallied UNC’s athletes to volunteer in shelters, helping deescalate violent situations and prevent police intervention. As a young professional, himself diagnosed with PTSD, he won awards his work in the passage of mental health parity laws in Virginia and for his work advocating for students with disabilities.

In 2000, Noran got married and moved back to Laurinburg to provide home care for his mother who was an Alzheimer’s victim. He “was stunned to find that our challenged area had grown more difficult.” Noran had been heavily involved in community work but, after 20 years “in the trenches”, he became disillusioned with the impact he was having as a counselor. Then, five years ago, at the funeral for “another young man who was lost to gang violence” he made the commitment to “never stand at another graveside for a young person I worked with asking myself if I could have done ‘more.’ This is the 'more.'”

Interview Highlights:

• How Growing Change is a youth-empowered model taking closed prisons locally – among the hundreds nationally – and transforming them into a replicable model with sustainable farms that generate revenue and livelihoods while regenerating the land and local communities.

• Hear directly from youth leaders Ravin Patel and Norman Garcia-Lopez about their skills and experience with Growing Change

• Stay tuned for the Growing Change youth-led DIY “Flip Your Prison” series on their YouTube channel and the “Prison Flip Toolkit” soon to be available on their website (where you can support their work by donating via their PayPal link)

Resources:

Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm

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Doria Robinson & Princess Robinson: BIPOC Community Wealth Building at Cooperation Richmond

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Growing up with a mother who was an illegal resident from Samoa, a single parent of 4 children with no educational background, Princess Robinson was raised in a low income community in Richmond CA with little resources and an unstable home.

Now herself a mother, wife, Richmond resident, and community advocate, Princess Robinson has worked with Urban Tilth, as an environmental steward, restoring creek ecosystems and providing fresh locally grown produce in food deserts throughout Richmond.

After years of community service, neighborhood meetings, community boards, and serving in many initiatives working toward a Just Transition economy throughout her community (such as beautification projects, alternative housing solutions, and implementing sustainable practices through climate justice systems), as a returning college student, Princess graduated 2019 with 3 AA degrees in business, sociology, and liberal arts.

Currently, she serves as a Project Manager for Cooperation Richmond where she supports her community members develop and launch worker-owned cooperative businesses in their community.

Doria Robinson is a 3rd generation resident of Richmond, California and the Executive Director of Urban Tilth. She is also a cofounder of Cooperation Richmond, a Richmond-based, resident-led worker-owned cooperative developer and small loan fund that builds community controlled wealth through worker-owned and community-owned cooperative businesses and enterprises by and for low-income communities and communities of color in Richmond whose wealth has been extracted.

Doria is also a dedicated Food Sovereignty, Climate Justice and Just Transition Activist, as well as the co-convener of US Food Sovereignty Alliance Western Region and an active member of the Climate Justice Alliance and Richmond Our Power Coalition. Doria currently lives in the neighborhood where she grew up in Richmond with her wonderful 18-year-old twins.

Interview Highlights:

• The genesis of Cooperation Richmond, from Urban Tilth to leveraging values-aligned enterprise through cooperative development that supports and really meets people where they’re at

• Some background on the Seed Commons, spawned by The Working World, and it’s relationship with Cooperation Richmond

• An overview of the racialized and economic history of Richmond California – from the impact of wartime industries to Chevron and the significance of these community efforts in that context

• A call for listeners to create local loan funds or investment clubs that advance Cooperation Richmond’s model in your local community

Resources:

Urban Tilth

The Working World

Rich City Rides

Star Wyngz

Princess Robinson’s work w/ Wildcat Creek

Richmond Progressive Alliance

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Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods: Decolonizing & Reindigenizing Our Relationships

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Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.

Interview Highlights:

• Kanyon CoyoteWoman speaks to her experience as an ancestor in training and as an indigenous entrepreneur

• The importance of establishing authentic relationship through asking, listening, respecting, humility, & permission

• Why we should be shifting policy to authentically understand & respect local indigenous cultures

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LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. 

Erin Axelrod is a Partner at LIFT Economy, helping to accelerate the spread of climate-beneficial businesses, specializing in businesses that address critical soil and water regeneration. She is an avid ecologist, grassroots organizer and regularly forages for wild food in her home in rural Sonoma County. You can follow Erin on Twitter @erinaxelrod or email her erin@lifteconomy.com.

Aaron Tanaka: Creating a Just, Regenerative, and Democratic Economy

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Aaron Tanaka is founder and Director of the Boston-based Center for Economic Democracy. Aaron is also a community organizer, grant-maker, impact investor, and a founding organizer of the Boston Ujima Project, which brings together neighbors, workers, business owners and investors to create a new community-controlled regional economy. He is an Echoing Green and BALLE Fellow, and co-chair of the national New Economy Coalition and the Asian American Resource Workshop.

Some highlights from Ryan Honeyman’s Conversation with Aaron Tanaka include:

• How Aaron got into the work he is doing today

• Aaron’s thoughts on democratizing capital and the launch of the Boston Ujima Project

• How social entrepreneurs can get more involved in grassroots activism and movement building

• The balance between creating examples of Next Economy solutions and organizing for policy change at the government level

• Aaron’s thoughts on how folks can help create the Next Economy

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LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. 

Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Brock Dolman: Thirsty for a Balanced Water Budget

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Brock Dolman co-directs the WATER Institute, Permaculture Design Program and Wildlands Program. He has taught Permaculture and consulted on regenerative project design and implementation internationally in Costa Rica, Ecuador, U.S. Virgin Islands, Spain, Brazil, China, Canada, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba and widely in the U.S. He has been the keynote presenter at numerous conferences and was featured in the award-winning films The 11th Hour by Leonardo DiCaprio, The Call of Life by Species Alliance, and Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution by Vanessa Shultz. In October of 2012, he gave a City 2.0 TEDx talk. Brock completed his BA in the Biology and Environmental Studies departments at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1992, graduating with honors. For over a decade, he has served as an appointed commissioner on the Sonoma County Fish & Wildlife Commission. 

Some highlights from Kevin Bayuk’s conversation with Brock Dolman include:

• Unpacking aspects of the ecological, biological, & economic importance of water

• Adaptation to global warming by maximizing/stretching our water budgets at various scales

• Suggestions for transitioning ecologically from viscous cycles to virtuous cycles & personal resilience strategies

• An overview of some of Brock’s exciting projects at The WATER Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center and beyond

Resources:

• Basins of Relations – a Citizen’s Guide to Protecting and Restoring Our Watersheds (2018)

• CalCAN (California Climate And Agriculture Network)

• Movement Generation: Transition Is Inevitable, Justice Is Not: A Critical Framework For Just Recovery

• The WATER Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

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Kevin Bayuk, Co-founder and Partner at LIFT Economy, works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets next economy organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life. He is the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown and a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute.  You can follow Kevin on Twitter @kevinbayuk or email him kevin@lifteconomy.com.

Esteban Kelly: Transformative Justice, Economic Democracy, & Collective Liberation

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Esteban Kelly is a visionary leader and compassionate strategist who inspires organizers by drawing on science fiction, social theory, and collective liberation. Uniting close friends and long-time co-organizers, Esteban was inspired to co-create AORTA culling together his creative energy and organizational skills for expanding food sovereignty, solidarity economy & cooperative business, gender justice & queer liberation, and movements for racial justice.

Esteban’s work is vast. In addition to working for AORTA, he is the Co-Executive Director for the US Federation of Worker Co-ops (USFWC), and a co-founder and current board President of the cross-sector Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA).

Internationally, Esteban has advocated for workplace democracy through the ICA (International Cooperative Alliance) and CICOPA (the international worker co-op federation), and for land reform and other social movements from Canada to Brazil.

After many years as a PhD student of Marxist Geographers at the CUNY Graduate Center, Esteban has left academia with a Masters in Anthropology. Most recently, Esteban worked as Development Director and then Staff Director for the New Economy Coalition. From 2009-2011, Esteban served as Vice President of the USFWC, and a board member of the Democracy At Work Institute (DAWI) and the US Solidarity Economy Network. He is also a previous Director of Education & Training and Board President of NASCO (North American Students for Cooperation) where he was inducted into their Cooperative Hall of Fame in 2011. He currently serves on the boards of the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) and the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA–CLUSA), and is an advisor to the network of artist-activist trainers, Beautiful Trouble.

Firmly rooted in West Philly, Esteban’s skills and analysis of transformative justice stem from his decade-plus of organizing with the Philly Stands Up collective. Similarly, Esteban worked through a major food co-op transition as a worker–owner at Mariposa Food Co-op, where he co-founded its Food Justice & Anti-Racism working group (FJAR) and labored to institutionalize the Mariposa Staff Collective. In light of these efforts, Esteban became a Mayoral appointee to the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council (FPAC), and works to advance education, systemic thinking, and anti-oppression organizing into all of his food advocacy work. 

You can contact Esteban at: esteban(at)aorta(dot)coop and follow him on Twitter: @estebantitos

Some highlights from Shawn Berry’s conversation with Esteban Kelly include:

• Esteban’s nonlinear and emergent visionary approach to movement leadership as well as his own career trajectory

• Unpacking terms like Economic Democracy, Transformative Justice, & Collective Liberation

• Exploring some of the historic cultural erasure of the cooperative economic heritage of communities of color

• Differentiating capitalism from economics and business & increasing awareness of the is in the collective consciousness

• How Esteban maintains hope and inspiration by focusing in on the generative work of constructing a better economy while being in allyship with resistance movements

Resources:

Frantz Fanon

Transformative Justice

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Shawn Berry, Partner at LIFT Economy, works as an organizational strategist inspired to harness the power of business to create resilient local economies as patterns to be documented, open sourced, scaled globally and adapted regionally. You can follow Shawn on Twitter @sd_berry or email him shawn@lifteconomy.com.

Diana Leafe Christian: Finding Community & Creating a Life Together

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Diana's mission is to help intentional communities get started successfully, function effectively, and achieve their goals. She has learned what works well from founders and long-time members of more than 170 communities worldwide — ecovillages, cohousing neighborhoods, housing co-ops, shared group households, income-sharing communes, and more. She is author of Creating a Life Together, (2006), (now translated into six languages) and Finding Community (2007) See this 1-minute video highly recommending her work.

Diana teaches  workshops, offers consultations, and presents keynote addresses and breakout workshops for conferences internationally. In 2017 she received the Fellowship for Intentional Community's Kozeny Communitarian Award, a lifetime acheivement award for her contributions to the US communities movement.

She teaches workshops on Starting a Successful Ecovillage or Intentional Community, and on Sociocracy (also called Dynamic Governance), to intentional communities and member-led groups. She is an Associate Member of The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG) and was formerly a Sociocracy trainer for the board of GEN International.  Her third book will be about how groups can use Sociocracy for better meetings, to get more done, and to feel more connected. She also teaches the N St. Consensus Method for groups that would like to use consensus.

Diana is a certified as a trainer for Gaia Education's Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) course, and a Board Member of GEN-US (Global Ecovillage Network-US) and GENNA (GEN-North America). She wrote chapters for the Gaia Education/EDE books Beyond You and Me and Gaian Economics, and the GEN book Ecovillage: 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet. She has written articles for Communities magazine, GEN Newsletter, the Communities Directory, GEN Newsletter, Permaculture Activist, and Permaculture magazines. She was editor of Communities magazine (1994-2007) and publisher of Ecovillages newsletter (2010-2012). She is a member of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

Email Diana at diana~at~ic.org

Some highlights from Kevin Bayuk’s conversation with Diana Leafe Christian include:

• An overview of the various common forms of intentional communities

• An introduction to Sociocracy and other governance & decision-making systems

• How to integrate critically important feedback loops for group processes

• Diana’s 8 crucial structures that groups, whether intentional communities or businesses, should put in place immediately to prevent structural conflict

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Kevin Bayuk, Co-founder and Partner at LIFT Economy, works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets next economy organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life. He is the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown and a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute.  You can follow Kevin on Twitter @kevinbayuk or email him kevin@lifteconomy.com.

Penny Livingston-Stark: Ecoliteracy, Permaculture, and Regenerative Design

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Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She holds a MS in Eco-Social Regeneration and 3 Diplomas in Permaculture Design. She has studied, taught with, hosted and learned directly from Bill Mollison, and David Holmgren the co-founders of Permaculture and the developers of the Permaculture Design Certification Course curriculum.

Penny has been teaching internationally and working professionally in the land management, regenerative design, and permaculture development field for 25 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically sound design and construction as well as the use of natural non-toxic building materials. She specializes in site planning and the design of resource-rich landscapes integrating, rainwater collection, edible and medicinal planting, spring development, pond and water systems, habitat development and watershed restoration for homes, co-housing communities, businesses, and diverse yield perennial farms. She as taught Herbal Medicine Making, Natural Building and Permaculture around the US as well as Bali, Indonesia, Peru, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Portugal, Australia, Belize, Brazil, England and Costa Rica.

With her husband James Stark, and in collaboration with Commonweal — a cancer health research and retreat center — Penny co-manages Commonweal Garden, a 17-acre organic and certified salmon-safe farm in Bolinas, California.

Penny co-created the Ecological Design Program and its curriculum at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, co-created the Permaculture Program at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center with Brock Dolman, co-created the Earth Activist Training with Starhawk and she co-founded the West Marin Grower’s Group, the West Marin Farmer’s Market, and the Community Land Trust Association of Marin. Penny has also worked with the Marin County Community Development Agency and Planning Department to develop recommendations on sustainability for updating the Community Plan.

Penny is a founding member of the Natural Building Colloquium, a national consortium of professional natural builders, creating innovations in straw bale, cob, timberframe, light clay, natural non-toxic interior finishes and other methods using natural and bio-regionally appropriate materials for construction.

She has been featured in the following films: Symphony of the Soil by Lily Films and Deborah Koons Garcia, 2012: A Time for Change by Joao Amorim and Daniel Pinchbeck and Permaculture: The Growing Edge by Belili Films and Starhawk.  Contact Penny at penny@regenerativedesign.org.

Some highlights from Kevin Bayuk’s interview with Penny Livingston-Stark include: 

• A glimpse into the early days of permaculture in the US and common misconceptions about permaculture

• The importance of ecological literacy and appreciating design considerations such as “embodied energy” of system inputs

• Appreciating bird song and other gifts of our nonhuman neighbors

• How dairy and cattle ranching is stigmatized but how it can in fact be a powerful driver of ecological regeneration if managed to optimize for soil health

• The importance of supporting your local herbalists

Resources:

Permaculture

Ecoliteracy

Regenerative Design Institute

Tom Ward

Rick Valley

Bill Mollison

Ianto Evans

John Todd

Lost Valley Education & Event Center

Jude Hobbs

The Ecology of Commerce

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Constructed Wetland

Sacred Economics

Embodied Energy

David Holmgren

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Kevin Bayuk, Co-founder and Partner at LIFT Economy, works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets next economy organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life. He is the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown and a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute.  You can follow Kevin on Twitter @kevinbayuk or email him kevin@lifteconomy.com.

Neelam Sharma: The Black Panther Party, Food Justice, and Self-Reliant Communities

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Our guest today is Neelam Sharma, Executive Director of Community Services Unlimited (or CSU), which is a non-profit organization based in South Los Angeles, CA.

CSU was founded in the 1970’s by the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party. CSU’s mission is to foster the creation of communities actively working to address the inequalities and systemic barriers that make sustainable communities and self-reliant life-styles unattainable.

In Ryan Honeyman's interview with Neelam, they discuss a variety of topics, including:

• Neelam’s upbringing in India and in London

• Her early involvement with activism and her work cofounding a chapter of the Black Panther Party in London in the 1980s

• Her visit to CSU in the mid 1990s and eventual move to Southern California

• CSU’s latest project launching the Village Market Place, a social enterprise that was designed to complement their education and training programs, and meet the growing demand for good (affordable, beyond organic, culturally appropriate, exploitation free) food in South Los Angeles.

For folks who are interested in learning more, please visit www.csuinc.org to check out the amazing work CSU is doing in South Los Angeles. You can also follow CSU on Twitter, @CSUINCLA.

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Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Keba Konte: Red Bay’s #BlackCoffee

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Now rooted in Oakland, CA, Keba Armand Konte was born and raised in San Francisco. He is an artist, food entrepreneur and man of the community. His artwork has been published widely and exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. He is the co-founder of Guerilla Cafe, the founder of Chasing Lions Cafe and the Founder/Roaster for Red Bay Coffee – an investee of LIFT Economy’s Force For Good Fund. In his spare time he enjoys aquaponic gardening, judo and making vegan waffles for his family.

Some highlights from Ryan’s interview with Keba include:

• Keba illustrates his colorful journey from the heyday of Haight-Ashbury in SF to his first career choice as a photographer – notable works from the 90’s independent hip hop scene: Boots Riley & The Coup, E-40, Master P, Too Short, 2-Pac, etc, with spreads in magazines like Rolling Stone, The Source, etc – transitioning in the early 2000’s to a career as a critically-acclaimed visual artist with unique documentary-style pieces & installation, conceptual, and interactive art (see Resources below to see Keba’s photography & art) which ultimately led Keba to co-found Guerilla Cafe as a hub for culture, art, and coffee vibes.

• Keba shares how he’s always been very intentional about the political implications of where he spent his money, a values-driven skillset that transferred to business decisions which enabled him to support black/POC entrepreneurs & provide livelihoods to youth

• Keba’s coffee enterprising began with Guerilla Cafe – which held the first wholesale coffee shop account for Blue Bottle Coffee.  Building from that success, Keba founded Chasing Lions Cafe and by structuring it to work so he would not work in the business so that he could work on the the business, he carved out the space he needed to cultivate the craft of roasting in his “Coffee Dojo,” finally launching Red Bay Coffee in 2014

• How the often normalized systemic racism of Starbucks culture recently captured on video has brought attention to the merit, meaning, and unique value proposition of the Red Bay Coffee model, resulting in a rapid increase in demand for Red Bay Coffee shops nationwide at a time when Red Bay is already ramping up for expansion (stay tuned for new locations in LA & Philly)

Resources:

• 10 Minutes With Keba Konte, Owner of Red Bay Coffee

• Keba Konte: Serving coffee with color, social justice

• Can specialty coffee be about more than fastidious white hipsters?

• Oakland’s Red Bay Coffee Expands Production, Teaches Farmers to Roast

• Red Bay Coffee gets new digs, signs on with Uber

• Berkeley Bites: Keba Konte

• Keba Konte to Debut '888 Pieces of We' Photo Exhibit at Oakland Art Gallery

• Beauty is ingrained in Berkeley artist's portraits

• Photomontage on Wood

• Keba Konte Discography Photographer Profile (62 Albums, 1993-2014)

• The Root Cities: Oakland's Hip-Hop Activism

• Forget Wealth And Neighborhood. The Racial Income Gap Persists

• New App Helps Users Support Black-Owned Businesses

• Meet the Baye Fall of Senegal

• The roots of fashion and spirituality in Senegal’s Islamic brotherhood, the Baye Fall

Videos/Audio:

• African American owned coffee shop looks to become next Starbucks with a different philosophy

• Coffee - Creating Roast Profiles

• Red Bay Coffee Investor Update

• Cupping With Keba Konte Owner Of Red Bay Coffee

• My Bag of Beautiful Coffee Transforms Low-Wage Jobs

• Design Talk | Growing Local: Designing Sustainable Food Businesses

• Aniyia Williams & Keba Konte: Keba Konte: Coffee with Soul & Aniyia Williams & Keba Konte: Q&A

• Keba -Konte - chasinlion

• 8 Factors Success Stories: Keba Konte, Guerilla Cafe

• Urban Organic Episode 1 - OAK: Aquaponic gardening with Bryant Terry, Keba Konte and Eric Maundu

• Sorry To Bother You | Official Trailer

• How to make Cafe Touba // How Do You Make Touba Coffee?

Books:

• Photomontage on Wood

Terminology:

• Café Touba

• Baye Fall people

People:

• Raymond Lawrence Riley // Boots Riley

• James Freeman

Organizations:

• The Coup

• Soul Salon 10

• Guerilla Cafe

• African American Farmers of California

• Scott Family Farms

• Blue Bottle Coffee

• Chasing Lions Cafe

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Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Nikishka Iyengar: Bolstering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems with Equitable Real Estate Development

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Nikishka Iyengar is a entrepreneur and strategist building the next economy. Using a whole systems approach to address social and environmental challenges, Nikishka is Founder and CEO of The Guild – a social enterprise developing co-living spaces to empower changemakers and build resilient communities. An investee of LIFT Economy’s Force For Good Fund, The Guild explores what community-led real estate development could look like, and has raised impact investment dollars to grow its model.  Nikishka is also the owner of Whole Systems Collective, an impact consulting collective helping companies innovate towards systems change. Previously, while earning her dual degree in Finance & Economics  at University of Texas at Austin, Nikishka conducted research on the socioeconomic impact of the e-waste trade in China and India, and on the social impact of microfinance with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.  Originally from Mumbai, India before moving to Singapore and eventually to the US, Nikishka has been recognized by GreenBiz as a "30 under 30" emerging leader in sustainability.

Some highlights from Ryan’s interview with Nikishka include:

• How witnessing stark economic disparity in India, Singapore, & the United States has informed Nikishka’s journey in economics, finance, and social impact

• As Nikishka helped start the sustainability & social impact consulting initiative at Deloitte, she often observed “predatory delay” (see terminology section below) and a spectrum of sincerity in the field with some being lulled into complacency thinking that addressing the issue at all was enough, while others demonstrated steadfast commitment to pushing for real systems change in the world of impact

• How the shifting immigration landscape has shaped Nikishka’s experience and identity

• How Nikishka’s introduction to cooperative living & decision making in college inspired her ideas to create spaces to support the local social entrepreneur ecosystem through The Guild

• A reframe on the degree to which communities front tremendous risk with new real estate developments and how developments might be approached more equitably

Resources:

• The Guild Is Bringing A New Co-Living Concept to Downtown Atlanta

• The 2016 GreenBiz 30 under 30

Videos/Audio:

• PEOPLE TO WATCH 2017 ....Dinner With Friends X Creative Loafing

Terminology:

• Predatory delay

• Transform Finance Principles

People:

• Alex Steffen

• Morgan Simon

Organizations:

• Carbon Disclosure Project

• Housing Justice League

• The Coalition for Community Benefits

• ATL is Ready

• East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life.

Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Nwamaka Agbo: The Road to Restorative Economics – Community Ownership & Community Governance

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As a restorative economics practitioner, Nwamaka Agbo brings a solutions-oriented approach to her project management consulting work with community-owned and community governed projects. With a background in organizing, electoral campaigns, policy and advocacy on racial, social and environmental justice issues, Nwamaka supports projects that build resilient, healthy and self-determined communities rooted in shared prosperity. Her current portfolio of projects includes supporting organizations and initiatives like Restore Oakland, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Restaurants Opportunities Centers United, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Democratizing Capital East Bay and others. In addition to her consulting practice, Nwamaka is also a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center. Prior to joining MSC, she served as the Director of Programs at EcoDistricts leading their Target Cities – a pilot program designed to support 11 neighborhood-scale sustainable urban regeneration projects across North America committed to equitable economic development. As the Director of Programs at Transform Finance, Nwamaka helped to design and launch the inaugural Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice leaders. The Institute was created to educate and train social justice community leaders about how to best leverage impact investments to deepen their social impact for transformative social change. She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member to Oakland Rising Action and a Board Member to the Thousand Currents, Center for Third World Organizing and the Schumacher Center for New Economics. She graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and African American Studies and holds a Master’s of Public Administration specializing in Financial Management from San Francisco State University.

Some highlights from Ryan’s interview with Nwamaka include:

• While in college, Nwamaka, a first generation Nigerian American, discovered the role of economics, imperialism, and colonialism in impacting the ability of communities of color to access dignified livelihoods through an international campaign to support African countries working to cancel their debt bondage to western countries

• Inspired by community self-determination and resilience mechanisms, models, & strategies, Nwamaka’s work in restorative economics centers community ownership & community governance as a pathway to self determination

• A review of the historic Powell Memo and how it relates to redistribution of wealth & power

• Nwamaka shares how she had to challenge some of her own assumptions about finance and capital in her work with the Thousand Currents on the Buen Vivir Fund where collateral is based on the integrity of social rapport rather than asset-based

• Appreciating resistance work in addition to building of the next economy

Resources:

• Richmond’s CDE

• Structuring Development for Greater Community Benefit: An Analysis of an Opportunity Model for Developing the Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay

• The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations

• The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

• Movement Generation Just Transition Framework Resources

• Just Transition Toolkit

• Thousand Currents’ Buen Vivir Fund

Videos/Audio:

• Nwamaka Agbo | Dreaming The Next Economy | Thrive East Bay

• Restorative Economics for a Just Transition – Nwmaka Agbo

• Our Political Reality and Building an Inclusive and Equitable Economy

• Love and Resistance: Black Land and Liberation

• “REVOLUTIONARY RESILIENCE” - Nwamaka Agbo on progressive innovation in Oakland

• Nwamaka Agbo's Keynote | Spring 2017 Pitch Day

• Panel Discussion - 37th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures

• C-SPAN – U.S. Job Market and Young Adults Panel: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

• NEN Podcast: Deborah Frieze: How to Create Healthy, Resilient, and Inclusive Communities

Terminology:

• Community-owned development enterprise (CDE)

• Community ownership

• Community governance

• Just transition

• Neighborhood assemblies

People:

• Aaron Tanaka

• Deborah Frieze

• Gopal Dayaneni

• Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan

• Ari Sahagún

Organizations:

• Center For Economic Democracy

• Boston Ujima Project

• Boston Impact Initiative

• Movement Generation

• Heron Foundation

• Novo Foundation

• Confluence Philanthropy

• Regenerative Finance

• Be Invested

LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life.

Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Arjan Stephens: Cereal Entrepreneurs Leave Soil Better Than They Found It

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Arjan Stephens serves as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nature's Path. Arjan was named one of Business in Vancouver’s ‘Top 40 under 40’ in 2012. He’s the second generation of the Nature’s Path organic foods company, a business he says was “founded on a hope and a dream and a $1,500 loan”, and is still driven by those same values 30 years later, now it’s turning over $300m a year and selling into over 50 countries. One of Arjan’s main purposes is to move the world away from zombie-like consumerism and encourage consciousness, especially with food. He believes our forks and wallets are the most powerful tools for change, and organic agriculture is the catalyst that will transform the world for the better. Arjan received his bachelor’s degree in History from Queen’s University and an MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Some highlights from Kevin’s interview with Arjan include:

• How Nature’s Path integrates their values throughout their supply stream, supporting over 120,000 acres of organic production internationally and sourcing local where feasible

• Understanding that the organization is not just there to serve the customer but to serve all who are part of the organization, Nature’s Path demonstrates their care for their people by offering great benefits and work environment that includes spaces to garden or meditate

• Nature’s Path recently met their goal to become Zero waste certified in all facilities (only cereal company to do this)

• An example of “corporate venturing,” the Seed to Sprout program at Nature’s Path has invested in three organic food companies to support entrepreneurs

• Arjan shares his thoughts on going beyond organic farming toward regenerative organic farming

Resources:

• Love at First Bite

• Nature’s Path Nourishing Communities programs

• First Priority, Zero Waste: Nature's Path Earns Prestigious Sustainability Certification at Third Facility

• The four ‘P’s: People, planet, profits – and passion

• Arjan’s Father: Arran Stephens

• OTA’s U.S. Families' Organic Consumer Attitudes and Beliefs Study

• Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

• Regenerative Organic Certification

• Join Us: The Journey to Regenerative Organic Certification

Videos:

• Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: Nature's Path with Arjan Stephens.

• How we leave the Earth is our collective legacy | Arran Stephens | TEDxUW

• Ted Talk: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | Ron Finley

People:

• Ron Finley

• Arran Stephens

Organizations

• Conscious Capitalism

LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life.

Kevin Bayuk works at the intersection of ecology and economy where permaculture design meets next economy organizations intent on meeting human needs while enhancing the conditions conducive to all life. He is a co-founder and  partner with LIFT Economy, the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown and a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute.  You can follow Kevin on Twitter @kevinbayuk or email him kevin@lifteconomy.com.

Sandra Kwak: #WeStandWithHaiti & #4thWorld as U.S. Solar Energy Policy Erodes

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Executive strategist and systems thinker, Sandra Kwak is applying disruptive innovation to create a regenerative future. Before launching 10Power, she scaled AutoGrid from prototype to a global brand, creating automated intelligence out of big data from the smart grid. Prior, as Co-Founder / President / COO of energy efficiency company Powerzoa, she brought building management hardware and software tools to market. Sandra has also served as CEO of a software company producing the world’s first mathematically lossless video codec. She worked at Pacific Gas & Electric implementing the ClimateSmart program and has consulted with clients including Mitsubishi, the Transamerica Holding Company, and The San Francisco Foundation. Sandra has an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School and a BA in Political Science and Visual Art from Emory University.  10 Power is an investee of LIFT Economy’s Force for Good Fund.

Some highlights from Andrew’s interview with Sandra include:

• Sandra describes how part of her inspiration for creating 10Power grew from her observation that concerted efforts to elevate social equity was missing from CleanTech sector as thousands lack access to electricity and all that affordable electrical infrastructure affords

• With Haiti importing most of its energy, Sandra enumerates emerging opportunities for solar in Haiti including building virgin, state of the art infrastructure and innovative financing to increase affordability

• Sandra laments Trump’s imposition of tariffs on solar panels, counterproductively backsliding U.S. energy policy as Haitian President Jovenel Moïse boldly removes tariffs entirely from solar panel imports with promises of rapidly electrifying Haiti with renewable energy

• Deriving much of her hope and inspiration from youth, Sandra offers advice to anyone wanting to make a difference in CleanTech or in general, advising us to treat every experience as a learning experience, to find or create the conditions that enable us to thrive, and to elevate positive solutions

• As they continue recognizing, investing in, and scaling solutions, 10Power will be raising a fund later this year (subscribe to LIFT Economy’s monthly newsletter to stay tuned for opportunities to support!)

Resources:

• 10Power Selected as SheEO Top 25 Ventures

• 2017 Echoing Green Climate Fellow Sandra Kwak

• The Tech Industry’s Missed Opportunity: Funding Black Women Founders

• UN Sustainable Development Goals

• The Humble Learning Leader

• Of Arrogant and Humble Learners

• How Business Scalability Works

• Going to Scale: The challenge of replicating social programs

• As Pay-as-you-go Solar Proliferates, Here are 7 Lessons for Business Success

• Pay-As-You-Go Transactions in Off-Grid Solar Top $41M in Late 2016

• “Pay-As-You-Go” Solar Could Electrify Rural Africa

• PayGo solar home systems to rural off-grid communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Solar Power in the United States

• Solar Power

• Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protection for Haitians

• President’s Decision on Solar Tariffs is a Loss for America

Videos/Audio:

• Next Economy Now: Sandra Kwak: Solar as the Backbone for a New Economy - in Haiti and Beyond

• Fourth World Nation Building | Sandra Kwak | TEDxSFState

• 10Power Accelerate Pitch

• 100x100 Project's Social Ventures with Social Entrepreneur and Powerzoa Founder -- Sandra Kwak

• Azuri Paygo Energy | Africa

• The Haitian Revolution and Why It Is Important to You in 5 Minutes

• Accelerating Into the Future - Day 4

• Episode 30 - Big Data and Renewable Energy in Haiti - Sandra Kwak

• Clean Energy, Clean Growth - Sandra Kwak at Impact.tech SF

• Powerzoa - Jamie Simon & Sandra Kwak

• Anderson Cooper: People of Haiti have withstood more than our President ever has

Terminology:

• CleanTech

• FinTech

• Venture Capital

• Triple Bottom Line

• Return on Investment

• Traunch vs Tranche

• UNSDG’s

• Development Theory

• Rostow's stages of growth

• Linear growth theories

• First World

• Third World

• Industrialisation

• Leapfrogging

• Exploitation of natural resources

• Stand-alone power system

• Intersectionality

• Temporary protected status

People:

• Jovenel Moïse

Organizations:

• SheEO

• Echoing Green

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Kevin Bayuk: Our Journey to an Economy that Works for the Benefit of All Life

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Our dearly beloved co-founding member of the LIFT Team, Kevin Bayuk's has his roots in entrepreneurship, having spent nearly a decade starting and growing technology companies, and activating projects and organizations that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just and joyful environments. After immersing himself in all aspects of starting and growing companies, Kevin focused his attention on learning about and teaching eco-systemic design. Nowadays Kevin merges his experience in business with his experience in permaculture to help businesses care for people while enhancing the earth.  

Kevin also serves as the Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown developing the business case to address climate change through existing practices and technologies. He frequently teaches classes, workshops, does public speaking, facilitates meetings, plans events and provides one on one mentoring as a founding partner of the Urban Permaculture Institute San Francisco. Kevin has helped design and start food security gardens and public learning experiences intent on reminding people that we, too, are nature.

Kevin has raised millions of dollars to capitalize business operations, led teams of more than 30 employees, and can speak well to the benefits and pitfalls of raising capital and the many paths of growing a business. He loves spreadsheets and loves to dig into operating models. One investor of Kevin’s last technology company said, “Kevin oozes strategy.”

Some highlights from Ryan’s interview with Kevin include:

• Kevin recounts his process of shifting away from a worldview overwhelmed by proliferation of problems/suffering to one where he recognized countless opportunities to solve problems and inspire a movement of solutions

• How the genesis of Kevin’s interest in business & economy as powerful lever for social change grew from observations that much suffering is rooted in our system of economy that informs our cultural norms and identities

• A leisurely stroll through LIFT’s long term vision, from LIFT 1.0 to LIFT 5.0 and how the LIFT Team balances cynicism and optimism on the path to realizing our vision

• Some resources from which the LIFT Team derives inspiration

Resources:

• Meet Kevin Bayuk, From Dot-Com To Urban Permaculture Leader

• Permaculture Design as a Pedagogical Resource

Videos:

• Empower Happy Hour | Kevin Bayuk

• LIFT Next Economy Leaders Interview Series: Kevin Bayuk

• Kevin Bayuk: Urban Permaculture

• Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film

Books

• Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

• Ecotopia & Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach

Terminology:

• Progressive Utilization Theory (“PROUT”)

People:

• Rebecca Burgess

• Paul Hawken

• Jane Jacobs

• Marjorie Kelly

• E.F. Schumacher

• Charles Eisenstein

• Lynn Margulis

• Joseph Campbell

• Alan Watts

• Robert Anton Wilson

• Elinor Ostrom

• Buckminster Fuller

Organizations

• Patagonia

• Namaste Solar

• VF Corporation

• 7th Generation

• Fibershed

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Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers).  You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Jonathan Rosenthal: Transforming Stories of Oppression Into #NowWeOwn

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Jonathan Rosenthal is the Executive Director of the New Economy Coalition. He has spent over 30 years working to transform the power of business from a destructive force of accumulation into a healing force honoring the interconnectedness of all people and our earth. He co-founded Equal Exchange, Oké USA and Belmont-Watertown Local First. He has consulted with people and organizations all across the trade justice movement. He is the author of numerous articles and is a frequent speaker at colleges and events, is a board member of the Coffee Trust and an emeritus board member of Root Capital. Jonathan is a lifelong vegetarian foodie and a huge fan of his local Watertown, MA library. He lives with his amazing business and life partner, Ora Grodsky (an organizational development consultant with Just Works Consulting), and has two inspiring daughters.

Some highlights from Ryan’s interview with Jonathan include:

• How Jonathan journeyed from the consumer co-op movement to equal exchange with the intention to challenge systemic oppression and support liberation movements before landing at New Economy Coalition

• As a network of over 200 organizations/networks/movements operating primarily in the U.S. with the goal of building grassroots power spanning sectors/geographies, Jonathan shares the buffet of all the great projects in which New Economy Coalition is engaged through their convenings, communication, & movement resourcing

• Jonathan shares his perspective on the current state of systemic racism and the Trump era and how to engage in healing and building work within that context

• And He shares what he sees as the biggest obstacles to actualizing the new economy whilst offering up the hopeful stories pouring forth from the New Economy Coalition’s #NowWeOwn Campaign

• A comparison of the benefit and drawbacks of private ownership of businesses versus collective ownership (ie: worker-ownership)

• Jonathan’s leadership advice around becoming a lifelong learner

Resources:

• New Economy Coalition’s Annual Report 2016

• New Economy Coalition Wikipedia Article

• Living through the unveiling

• #NowWeOwn (Twitter Campaign)

• Beautiful Solutions

Videos:

• New Economy Coalition Youtube Channel

Books

• Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life by Barry Oshry

• The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu & Mpho Tutu

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

• The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Terminology:

• Consumer Cooperative (Wikipedia Article)

• Liberation movement

• Fair Trade

People:

• Ed Whitfield

• adrienne maree brown

• Gar Alperovitz

• Elandria Williams

Organizations

• Equal Exchange

• Yes Magazine

• The Working World

• US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

• Transform Finance

• South Mountain Company

• Slow Money

• Self Help Credit Union

• Resource Generation

• Regenerative Finance

• B Lab

• BALLE

• The Highlander Center

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Ryan Honeyman is a Partner at LIFT Economy and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. You can follow Ryan on Twitter @honeymanconsult or email him ryan@lifteconomy.com.

Neal Gorenflo: Shareable Turns the Page with "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons"

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Neal Gorenflo is the Executive Director and co­founder of Shareable, a nonprofit solutions news outlet that covers the latest social innovations in resource sharing, new economy, and cities. He is a speaker, consultant, and writer on sharing cities, the sharing economy, and the future of work. He is the co­editor of the new book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.” As a leader in the sharing movement, he advises mayors, communities, and organizations around the world how to meet their goals through sharing. Not surprisingly, Neal is an avid sharer whose year of living shareably life experiment was covered by FastCompany, Sunset Magazine, and 7x7. As a social entrepreneur, Neal's timely call to action is simple: share.

Some highlights from Shawn’s interview with Neal include:

• How Neal discovered the 10x effect of a social network based on purpose called the Abundance League in San Francisco between 2005 and 2010

• The bastardization of the perception of the “sharing economy” and the signs of hope that can redeem what the sharing economy really means (ie: platform cooperatives)

• The need for enterprise ecosystems to actualize sharing cities to create more virtuous cycles

• We don’t have to wait for solutions to come to us; we have them now; and can act on them today (*This names explicitly is what this Next Economy Now podcast is all about!)

Resources:

• Shareable’s new book releases this week: Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons

• YES! Magazine: The Italian Region Where Co-ops Produce a Third of Its GDP

• Jeffrey Hollender Partners: Coops, Italian Style: A Look at the Legacoop in Bologna

• Shareable: 11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy

• The Guardian: Low-income workers who live in RVs are being 'chased out' of Silicon Valley streets

• Regenerative Enterprise: 4 Years Later

• Excerpt from Chapter 6 of Regenerative Enterprise: Optimizing for Multi-capital Abundance – Regenerative Enterprise Ecologies

• The Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Social Capital Products by Steve Wright of Grameen Foundation

Videos:

• The Next System Project: Learning from Emilia Romagna’s cooperative economy

• PBS NewsHour: High rents force some in Silicon Valley to live in vehicles

Terminology:

• Gentrification

• Platform Cooperative

• Business Ecosystem

• Satori

People:

• Elinor Ostrum

• Nathan Schneider (Wikipedia Article)

Organizations

• The Platform Cooperativism Consortium

• Green Taxi Cooperative

• Stocksy United

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Shawn Berry is a Partner at LIFT Economy, where he works as an organizational strategist inspired to harness the power of business to create resilient local economies as patterns to be documented, open sourced, scaled globally and adapted regionally.

LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. You can follow Shawn on Twitter @sd_berry or email him shawn@lifteconomy.com.

Ed Whitfield: Racial Justice Meets Non-Extractive Financing

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Ed Whitfield is Co-­founder and Co­-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities. He is a long time social justice, anti ­ war and community activist. After graduating as a Presidential Scholar from Little Rock Central High School in the late 60s, he went on to Cornell University where he became the leader of the Black student organization during the period of struggle for Black Studies.

Ed is deeply involved in theorizing and promoting the development of cooperative enterprises in marginalized communities in the south. He helped to create the Southern Reparations Loan Fund to finance sustainable, democratically owned and democratically controlled businesses in communities that do not attract capital due to racist and extractive banking and investment practices.

Ed is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Southern Reparations Loan Fund, on the Advisory Board of the Florida Dream Defenders and serves on the boards of the New Economy Coalition (NEC) and The Working World (TWW). In his free time he build and plays flutes and bass guitars and plays guitar and sings the blues.

Some highlights from Shawn’s interview with Ed include:

• Ed's circuitous 50 year path as an activist from witnessing lynch mobs in the streets where he grew up to impact investing

• Examining the idea of “productive justice” – who owns the capacity to produce and how can we create more opportunities for people to be fully productive

• How most of the social justice issues have economic issues at their root

• How philanthropy is an afterthought of extraction

• The notion of “commons thinking” and creating a “financial commons” and how the Southern Reparations Loans Fund attempts to build momentum toward this end

• How the Renaissance Community Cooperative arose from the cracks and what the Southern Reparations Loan Fund & The Working World are offering non-extractive lending and other support in the face of systemic and structural racism

Resources:

Videos:

• Democratizing Finance -- Video Panel CommonBound 2016

• Fund for Democratic Communities Youtube Channel

Books:

• Human Population Dynamics: With Applications To The U.S. 1790-2000 & Other Books by Llyod Hogan

• Deschooling Society – Ivan Illich (Wikipedia)

• Vernacular Values – Ivan Illich

• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward Baptist

• The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

Terminology:

• Productive Justice

• Commons Thinking

Organizations

• Renaissance Community Cooperative

• The Working World

• James & Grace Lee Boggs Center

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Shawn Berry is a Partner at LIFT Economy, where he works as an organizational strategist inspired to harness the power of business to create resilient local economies as patterns to be documented, open sourced, scaled globally and adapted regionally.  LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm whose mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life. You can follow Shawn on Twitter @sd_berry or email him shawn@lifteconomy.com.