Round Table—Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Inventing the Regenerative Economy
What’s the shape of an economy that puts nature, equity, dignified labor, and distributed ownership at its center? How does greater localization build a resilient, regenerative economy from the bottom up? How can AI and robots not lead to mass dis-employment? How do we get from here to somewhere over the rainbow? Hosted by Greg Watson of the Shumacher Center for New Economics. With: Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, MS; Ted Howard, the Democracy Collaborative; Christine Nobiss, Seeding Sovereignty.
Veterans' Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
October 20th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Greg Watson
Director of Policy and Systems Design
Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, has spent four decades seeking to apply systems thinking to achieve a just and sustainable world. His long CV includes stints as Massachusetts’ Commissioner of Agriculture, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, and founding the Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network, among many other prestigious positions.Christine Nobiss
Decolonizer
Seeding Sovereignty
Christine Nobiss is Plains Cree-Saulteaux and holds an MA in Religious Studies. She is a Decolonizer with Seeding Sovereignty and directs their SHIFT and Land Resilience Programs. She speaks and writes about the MMIW crisis, climate change, and an Indingeous led regenerative economy. She is in her second year of organizing the Indingeous track at SOCAP with the goal of dismantling colonial-capitalist institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land.Ted Howard
President
The Democracy Collaborative
Ted Howard, co-founder (in 2000) and President of The Democracy Collaborative, an action-oriented progressive think tank, has been named one of “25 visionaries who are changing your world” and identified by the Guardian newspaper as “the de facto spokesperson for community wealth building” internationally. He is co-author of the new (2019) book, The Making of a Democracy Economy.
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