Frances is a freelance consultant, working with communities as an adviser for the the NEF/Co-ops UK Community Economic Development Programme. She is also a Director of Totnes Community Development Society (an IPS ben com) which exists to hold land and buildings in community ownership for activities which meet the needs of residents. One of these projects is Atmos Totnes, the regeneration of an 8 acre ex brownfield site in Totnes as a mixed use development with truly affordable housing, enterprise and community space.
Dave Darby explores the ‘Preston Model’ and Community Wealth Building in an interview with Frances Northrop of the New Economics Foundation. Read more
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Nigel - this debate has been around for a long time - way before Doughnut Economics, which doesn't come down on either side of the...
Why no mention of Doughnut Economics? Seems like you are in danger of reinventing a wheel that already has a solution. https://doughnuteconomics.org
Great article. There is no ‘global climate response’, unless you count 27 years of COP meetings followed by record global carbon emissions as a ‘response’....
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