The goal is to imagine and then seek a new system of political economy that ensures people, place, and planet are the priority and leads to flourishing human and natural communities. But how would this new system look and work? These transitions may help us envision a better future.

Strong social and political movements can bring about social and political change, but the transformations we really need to bring about a sustainable society of well-being will also require the rise of a new consciousness. But how can we bring that about?

It is time for a new era of solutions that can rid the world of the greenhouse gas emissions ruining the planet.

Economic growth—meaning gross domestic product growth—should no longer be an important national policy objective. What we need is a dashboard of alternative indicators.

We can act to prevent private equity from swallowing up much-needed healthcare dollars and instead grow investments in the real healthcare economy to enable more equitable outcomes.

Despite decades of environmental action and many international agreements to protect species and ecosystems, recent reports offer grim findings and forecasts for the future of the planet. But there is good news—depending on how we answer some tough questions.

Millions of voters are fed up, and Democrats should be reaping the political benefits of the 70 percent of voters who believe serious changes are needed in our economy and politics. But it is Donald Trump at the table. Something must change.

Earlier this month, the Universities at Shady Grove in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States convened a group of over thirty different anchor institution leaders and community stakeholders for a virtual exchange on Community Wealth Building with experts from Preston City Council and the University of Central Lancashire in the north of England.

We can build on the success of publicly funded drug research and development to include full-cycle development, testing, manufacture and distribution of innovative and affordable new prescription medicines.

As we struggle with racial, democratic, environmental and economic injustices, there are things from the past which we must learn. The history of Black Wall Streets tells us that genuine Community Wealth Building will only succeed when narrow economic ownership, concentrated wealth, and elite power are confronted directly and displaced or defeated.

As the financialization of capitalism has advanced, the key role for Community Wealth Building as a counter-strategy and the need for democratizing finance has come into much greater focus.

The Democracy Collaborative’s Marjorie Kelly argues, in an exclusive interview for Truthout, that a democratic economy is our only way out of a destructive system of wealth supremacy.

In an interview with Democracy Collaborative president Joe Guinan, Marjorie Kelly discusses her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises.”

In the next month, we will be visiting and working with a range of organizations, cities, and localities. This activity speaks to the expansion of the CWB movement across the United States as we service some of the growing interest in and action on CWB

As climate catastrophe accelerates, we need to be clear - the problem lies with our current economic system, and its excesses of wealth and power

We’ve begun to talk about the crisis, even to act—but our response remains dangerously inadequate to the scale of the challenges ahead

As the White House makes a welcome announcement on Community Wealth Building and underserved communities, we ask: but what about the wealthy overserved, and an economic system that maintains fundamental racial and social injustices?

This new study on community wealth building(CWB) in Preston England illustrates the positive effects that this progressive local economic program has had on ill health and specifically, on mental health.