A healthy functioning society requires accountability via educated citizens. Societally, we allowed local journalism to wither and we are seeing many deleterious effects. If you are seeing this email, you are an action-oriented, can do sort of person. So let’s rebuild Local Journalism! How? On April 9, Local News Day, we will hear from people […]
The global economic system is powerful, but we don’t have to wait for large-scale change to start making a difference in our communities. WEAll California invites you to share and discuss ideas for how to challenge global economic forces with small scale action. From lending libraries to localized food systems to smaller-scale energy solutions, there […]
How can cities meet everyone’s needs while staying within the planet’s ecological limits? Join us for a conversation on how the Doughnut Economics framework is beginning to take shape in three Bay Area cities. Hear directly from three California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC) leaders working to bring this approach into practice: Lisa Charpontier, San José […]
From our friends in the Bay Area--- This is the 4th Bioregional Regeneration Unconference for the SF Bay Delta Bioregion. Each gathering has deepened our network and sparked new collaborations across the region. At previous unconferences, participants have mapped 100-year visions for the bioregion, explored governance models from sociocracy to citizen assemblies, explored mutual aid […]
A Wellbeing Economy is one where everyone thrives. Our current economy is inequitable and does not support community priorities Join multiple community based organizations as we come together again to discuss how we turn visions of Wellbeing Economy into reality here in the Pomona Valley. Last year, we met to explore what a Wellbeing Econom […]
ProRep Coalition believes that moving our state legislators from single member districts to multi member districts with proportional representation would lead to a healthier democracy that better represents the multitudes of each district. ProRep Coalition does educational work to build support for a ballot measure in California to move to this system. Proportional Representation (PR) […]
May’s discussion topic is about moving from a fringe discussion into a powerful, nationwide discussion. So many elements of a Wellbeing Economy are swimming around the news and local discussions, but the term “Wellbeing Economy” is barely known. Let’s assume for the sake of this discussion that we all are bought into this term as […]
WEAll California is pleased to announce our first in person conference on Education and Wellbeing Economies. The Conference will take place in Riverside, CA on Thursday, June 4. Update - We will meet at UC Riverside Schedule 9 to 11 In person only 11 to 12 - Zoom 12 to 130 - Lunch near UC […]
We love hearing from other WEAll Hubs around the world to hear their approaches to Wellbeing Economies. Caroline Whyte from WEAll Ireland will join us on June 11 to share some of their current projects and recent successes. Caroline will share about: Proposal for a Future Generations Commission A new briefing on Long-Term Governance […]
Our June discussion is a forward thinking brainstorm on the Future of Jobs. We can range from David Graeber’s thoughts on Bullshit Jobs to the AI/Waymo/Delivery Robot Shrinking of actual # of jobs. Do we want jobs? Is that the goal? How do people maintain housing, food and quality of life when jobs go through […]
We are not the type of people who just talk about the future we want to create. We want to figure out HOW to make it happen. How much can we look to the California State Government to make this better world a reality? To explore this question, we have brought in three people who […]
Join us for a discussion exploring how cities and counties can start to build a Wellbeing Economy based on our popular Local Guide to a Wellbeing Economy. From mayors and city council members, to county supervisors, sustainability directors and legislative aides, local governments across California are embracing new approaches to address interconnected challenges such as […]
