United Kingdom

58 publications | 7 Trainings | 20 Videos | 9 pedagogical tools | 15 case studies | 44 Analyses/working papers/articles | One reader’s report | 3 public contributions | 2 thesis | 2 articles

58 publications

• Stir Magazine: Automn 2019

  Stir to Action, Bridport, UK, October 2019

  Stir to action

• Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, March 2018

• STIR to Action, Power, Winter 2018

  Stir to Action, January 2018

• Rethinking Economics.An Introduction to Pluralist Economics.

  Edited by Liliann Fischer, Joe Hasell, J.Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe, Zach Ward-Perkins, Catriona Watson, Routledge UK, 2018

• Doughnut Economics : Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

  Kate Raworth, Cornerstone, UK, April 2017

• STIR issue 16, Winter 2017: Solidaity Economics

  AA.VV., Stir to Action, January 2017

  Stir to action

• Postcapitalism. A guide to our future.

  Paul Mason, Penguin Books UK, July 2015

• Debt or Democracy Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice

  Mary Mellor, Pluto Press, UK, 2015

• Patterns of Commoning

  The Commons strategy group

  coedited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, The Commons strategy group and Off the Common Press, 2015

• People Powered Money. Designing, developing & delivering community currencies.

  Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), 2015

• Can’t buy me happyness ! How voluntary simplicity contributes to subjective wellbeing

  Working paper n°29. Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing A working paper series of the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK

  Nadine van Dijk, January 2014

• People Over Capital: the co-operative alternative to capitalism

  coord. Rob Harrison, New Internationalists books, London, October 2013

• The Power of Just Doing Stuff How local action can change the world

  Rob Hopkins, Green Books, United Kingdom, June 2013

• Cancel The Apocalypse. The new path to prosperity.

  Andrew Simms, Little, Book Group, Brown, USA, February 2013

• Modernising money. WHY OUR MONETARY SYSTEM IS BROKEN AND HOW IT CAN BE FIXED

  Foreword by Prof Herman Daly

  Andrew Jackson, Ben Dyson, Positive Money, UK, 2013

• Where does money come from? A guide to the UK monetary and banking system. Second Edition.

  Josh Ryan Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Andreas Werner, Andrew Jackson, November 2012

  NEF

• Green Economics and Citizens Income

  Clive Lord, Miriam Kennet, September 2012

  Green Economics Institute

• People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies

  Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, John Rogers, Triarchy Press, UK, July 2012

• Sharing for Survival. Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society.

  Brian Davey, FEASTA, Ireland, April 2012

• WellBeing, Choice and Sustainability. What should Economic Policy target in a new Era Economy

  Amna Silim, April 2012

• Small Change, Big Deal. Money as if people mattered.

  Jennifer Kavanagh, John Hunt Publishing, Business Books, London, March 2012

• IT’S COOPERATION, STUPID. Why Richard Dawkins, Thomas Hobbes and Milton Friedman got it wrong

  Charles Leadbeater, March 2012

  IPPR

• A guide to Social Return on Investment (SROI) (revised)

  The SROI Network (UK) Jeremy Nicholls, Ellis Lawlor, Eva Neitzert, Tim Goodspeed, The SROI Network (UK), January 2012

• Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. Journeys to a Generative Economy.

  Marjorie Kelly, Berrett-Koehler, Oackland, CA, USA, 2012

• Social Tourism in Europe. Theory and Practice

  Scott McCabe, Lynn Minnaert, Anya Diekmann, Channel View Publications, October 2011

• The Transition Companion Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times

  Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, USA, October 2011

• Banking biodiversity Valuing or devaluing nature?

  Food Ethics Council, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Summer 2011.

  July 2011

  Food Ethics Council

• Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities

  Alan Southern, Routledge Publish., London, UK, April 2011

• Measuring Social Value

  Dan Leighton, Claudia Wood, Demos, 2011

• Exploring Community Resilience

  Nick Wilding, Fiery Spirits, UK and Carnegie Trust UK, 2011

• Measuring Social Value

  Dan Leighton, Claudia Wood, 2011

• Exploring Community Resilience

  Nick Wilding, 2011

• Eminent Corporations : the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation

  David Boyle, September 2010

  NEF

• Zero carbon Britain 2030. A new energy Strategy: The second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project

  June 2010

  NEF

• The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource

  Mary Mellor, Pluto Press, UK, April 2010

• Your Money Or Your Life: Time For Both

  Martin Simon, Freedom Favours, UK, 2010

• Growth isn’t possible. Why we need a new economic direction

  2010

  NEF

• A bit rich. Calculating the real value to society of different professions

  December 2009

  NEF

• The Ecology of Finance. An alternative white paper on banking and financial sector reform. November 2009

  November 2009

  NEF

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, New Economics Foundation, UK, October 2009

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right.

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, October 2009

• Ecological Debt : Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations : second edition

  Andrew Simms, Pluto Press, UK, April 2009

• « Prosperity without growth » ? The transition to a sustainable economy

  Tim Jackson, Sustainable Development Commission, UK, April 2009

• Green Well Fair. Three economies for social justice

  February 2009

  NEF

• Local Food. How to Make it Happen in Your Community.

  Tamzin Pinkerton, Rob Hopkins, Green Books, United Kingdom, 2009

• Money matters : Putting the eco into economics - global crisis, local solutions

  David Boyle, Alastair Sawday Publishing, UK, 2009

• The Great Transition. A tale of how it turned out right

  Stephen Spratt, Andrew Simms, Eva Neitzert, Josh Ryan Collins, 2009

  NEF

• The triple crunch : joined up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy

  Collective, 2008

  NEF

• From the ashes of the crash : 20 first steps from new economics to rebuild a better economy

  Andrew Simms, 2008

  NEF

• Alternative Currency Movements As a Challenge to Globalisation?: A Case Study of Manchester’s Local Currency Networks

  Peter North, Ashgate Publishing, Limited, December 2005

• Social exclusion.

  David Byrne, Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK, June 2005

• Ecological Debt. The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations

  Andrew Simms, Pluto Press, UK, May 2005

  NEF

• Common Ground - for Mutual Home Ownership

  Community land trusts and shared-equity co-operatives to secure permanently affordable homes for key workers

  Patrick Conaty, Johnston Birchall, Steve Bendle, Rosemary Foggitt, 2005

• Alternative Strategies in the UK Agro-Food System: Interrogating the Alterity of Farmers’ Markets

  Sociologia Ruralis Volume 44, Issue 4, pages 395–415, October 2004

  James Kirwan, October 2004

• Community Banking Partnership The joined-up solution for financial inclusion and community economic development

  New Economics Foundation., National Association of Credit Union Workers., Community Finance Solutions., & Lloyds TSB Group.

  2004

• Alternative Economic Spaces

  Andrew Leyshon, Roger Lee, Colin C. Williams, Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK., 2003

• Placing the Social Economy

  Ash Amin, Angus Cameron, Ray Hudson, Routledge, London, UK, May 2002

• The money changers : currency reform from Aristotle to e-cash.

  David Boyle, Earthscan, 2002

7 Trainings

• Ambleside - IFLAS, University of Cumbria, UK – Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership

• Bath, United Kingdom - University of Bath – Masters in Wellbeing and Public Policy and International Development at the University of Bath, with the Post-Graduate Certificate stage available by distance-learning.

• Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow Caledonian University - GCU – MSc Social Enterprise

• London campus - IFLAS - University of Cumbria, UK – Certificate Sustainable Exchange

• Plymouth, United Kingdom - Schumacher College – Economics for Transition - achieving low carbon, high well-being, resilient economies, MA and PG Certificate programme

• Totnes, England - Schumacher College – Ecological Food Systems

• Totnes, England - Schumacher College – Economics for Transition MA, Achieving Low-Carbon, High Well-Being, Resilient Economies

20 Videos

• Stir it up-Alternative economy at work.

  Joe Diomede, February 2018

• Audio : How Residents of an English Town Took Governance and the Local Economy Into Their Own Hands

  Upstream conversations

  April 2017

• Audio : Ep4: The Solidarity economy

  Upstream conversations

  January 2017

• SolidFund: Growing the UK Cooperative Economy

  August 2016

• Back to our Co-op roots

  May 2016

• Granby Four Streets - community-led regeneration

  March 2016

• The first student co-operative house in the UK

  February 2016

• Rob Hopkins on Local Currency as Community Wealth Expander July 2015

  July 2015

• Community Shares Case Study - Chase Community Solar, Cannock

  June 2015

• Interview of David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat on the commons

  Frédéric Sultan, Sylvia FREDRIKSSON, June 2015

• Dorset Community Energy: Community Shares in Solar Panels

  May 2015

• Why it’s time for ‘Doughnut Economics’ | Kate Raworth | TEDxAthens

  December 2014

• The Cooperative Model Revisited - Peter Couchman

  Open Everything: A Collaborative Economy Convergence, September 2014, Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland.

  September 2014

• What is a Community Land Trust?

  September 2013

• Darryl Reed : The Rise of Fair Trade: Opportunities, Tensions and Uncertainties.

  UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”, Geneva, 6-8 May 2013

  May 2013

  UNRISD

• What we build, builds us

  Yann Maury, July 2011

  Chairecoop

• Fairtrade Towns: energizing your community to change the world

  May 2011

• Transition Town Totnes - Transition Together

  Ashden Awards

  2011

• City of Sanctuary - The Film

  November 2009

• Findhorn Now

  September 2008

9 pedagogical tools

• Resources on Fair Trade Towns

  2019

• COOPStarter

  2018

• Educational resources of Leeds Development Education Centre

  2018

• How to do transition in your University/College. A guide to making your university more sustainable environmentally, socially, and academically.

  by the Transition network Team, January 2017

• Game: Manage an organisation and through the game, discover the values and competencies required in the Social and Solidarity Economy

  ISSE Initiatives of Social and Solidarity Economy, 2017

• Training Manual on Initiatives for a Social Solidarity Economy (ISSE)

  Erasmus +

  Marco Martinetti, October 2016

• The essential guide to doing Transition. Getting Transition started in your street, community, town or organisation.

  by the Transition network Team Rob Hopkins, Michael Thomas, 2016

• People Powered Money. Designing, developing & delivering community currencies.

  Community Currencies in Action (CCIA), 2015

• No small change. Evaluating the success of your community currency project

  April 2014

  NEF

15 case studies

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 12

  ILO Briefs

  June 2018

  BIT/ILO

• Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 Cooperative contributions to SDG 7

  ILO Briefs

  June 2018

  BIT/ILO

• A Good Food Plan for Bristol

  Bristol City Council and Urbact

  2015

• Brighton & Hove Food Poverty Action Plan - A whole city approach to tackling food poverty.

  Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, 2015

• Social and Economic Benefits of Community Energy Schemes

  report produced by Shared Assets and the National Trust

  Shared Assets and the National Trust, UK, 2014

• A Guide to The Engine Shed, the development of a social enterprise

  2013

• What factors enable community-leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative

  Jennifer C. Rogers, Eunice A Simmons, Ian Convery, Andrew Weatherall, March 2012

• Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch Community Farms, an example of biodynamic farm businesses owned by 600 local shareholders.(East Sussex, UK)

  Case studies Forum Synergies

  2012

• Stroud Pound: A Local Currency to Map, Measure and Strengthen the Local Economy

  Molly Scott Cato, Marta Suárez, 2012

• Transition Towns, UK

  Judith Hitchman, October 2009

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

• Compassionate Leadership in Voluntary Sector Organisations and the Integration of Forced Migrants

  VIIemes Rencontres du Réseau Inter-Universitaire de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Rennes (2007)

  Dieu Donné Hack-Polay, May 2007

  RIUESS

• Ecological Footprint of the Findhorn Foundation and Community

  Stephen Tinsley, Heather George, August 2006

• LETS get real: constraints on the development of Local Exchange Trading Schemes

  Theresa J. Aldridge, Alan Patterson, 2002

• Power to the People: community‐led wind energy – obstacles and opportunities in a South Wales Valley

  Community Development Journal, 36, 96-110.

  Emily Hinshelwood, 2001

• TIME AND TERRITORY. TIME POLICIES OF THE CITIES

  Revista Papers N.49 –

  Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona1

44 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Organising precarious workers : Trade union and cooperative strategies

  A report for the TUC from Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative College

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, January 2018

• Chapter 24 - FOOD AS COMMONS :Towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private

  in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FOOD AS A COMMONS: (pp. 373-396)

  Olivier De Schutter, Ugo Mattei, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, Tomaso Ferrando, 2018

• National Wellbeing : Assessment of Change September 2016 release

  Office for National Statistics UK

  September 2016

• Cultures of Community Energy International case studies

  Neil Simcock, Rebecca Willis, Peter Capener in association with Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University, May 2016

• Social Economy. STUDY.

  Directorate General for Internal Policies. Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy of the European Parliament, May 2016

• Not Alone. Trade union and co-operative solutions for self-employed workers.

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Philip Ross, March 2016

• What do we really know about worker co-operatives?

  Virginie Pérotin Coopératives UK, February 2016

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• Levers and obstacles to project funding in the third sector Portugal – UK – France - Algeria

  Final synthesis of the Diagnostic Assessments in the framework of the European Project SPOTS (Sustainable Projects for Organisations of the Third Sector)

  IFAID Aquitaine, January 2016

  IFAID Aquitaine

• What influences the diffusion of grassroots innovations for sustainability? Investigating community currency niches

  Journal Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Volume 28, 2016 - Issue

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, 2016

• Mapping Women’s Social Entrepreneurship in Europe.Synthesis Report.

  WEstart Emily Usher Shrair, September 2015

• A Collaborative Economy for the Common Good

  Patrick Conaty, 2015

• TOWARD AN OPEN CO-OPERATIVISM. A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons.

  A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

  Patrick Conaty, David Bollier, August 2014

• Alternative Currencies

  UK Houses of Parliament. Office of Science and Technology. Postnote Number 475 August 2014

  Paul Gilbert, Caroline Kenny POST, August 2014

• A Plan for Public Procurement: Food & Catering Balanced scorecard for public food procurement

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs UK

  July 2014

• In trust

  Fabian Society review, Volume 126—No. 2

  Steve Bendle, Patrick Conaty, 2014

• Report on results on action research: barriers to the use of alternative (‘beyond GDP’) indicators in policy making and how they are being overcome and can be overcome.

  BRAINPOoL deliverable 3.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). nef (the new economics foundation),

  Charles Seaford, November 2013

• Progress in Responsible Tourism (Volume 2(2)

  Goodfellow Publishers Limited, Oxford, UK

  Harold Goodwin, Xavier Font, September 2013

• A Preliminary Examination of Local Currencies : “Thinking Outside the Box Will Become Common, as the Box Dissolves”

  Yoshihiro Nihei, William F. O’Connor, 2013

• The Primacy of What? The Revolution of Networks and the shaping of real utopias for the twenty-first century

  Matías Meza-Lopehandía G, 2013

• Social enterprises and non-market capitals: a path to degrowth?

  Journal of Cleaner Production 38 (2013) 7e16

  Nadia Johanisova, Tim Crabtree, Eva Franková, 2013

• Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK

  Wendy M Miller,, 2013

• Review report on Beyond GDP indicators: categorisation, intensions and impacts.

  Final version of BRAINPOoL deliverable 1.1, A collaborative project funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme (Contract no. 283024). CUEC Prague

  Tomáš Hák, Svatava Janoušková, Charles Seaford, Saamah Abdallah, Sorcha Mahony, October 2012

• Unlocking New Money for Social Enterprise Through Taxation Mechanisms - UK

  This document demonstrate that taxation relief for investors in social enterprises is a key means of new attracting inward investment into the UK’s social enterprise movement.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• A technical guide to financing new employee mutuals - UK

  This guide identifies the resource requirements of new mutuals, provides a high level introduction into how and from which sources these investment requirements might be met; and identifies some of the implications of this analysis for potential and existing spin-outs of the public sector.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• 2012 Local Government manifesto for social enterprise - Scotland

  Policies for councils to implement to benefit social enterprises in Scotland.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• UK government policy on social enterprise and public procurement

  An overview of UK’s third sector landscape and its public policy framework on social enterprise and public procurement.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• Growing Green Money? Mapping Community Currencies for Sustainable Development

  Paper for SCORAI conference, June 2013

  Gill Seyfang, Noel Longhurst, May 2012

• Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30(3) 381 – 400

  Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, 2012

• Banking as if Society Mattered: The Case of Triodos Bank

  Katrin Dr. Käufer, January 2011

  MIT Colab

• Marketing on local markets

  September 2010

  COR

• Energy cooperatives and local ownership in the field of renewable energy technologies: A literature review

  RiCC – research report 2010/4

  Anna Schreuer, Daniela Weismeier-Sammer, April 2010

• Could the money system be the basis of a sufficiency economy?

  Real-World Economics Review, Issue no. 54

  Mary Mellor, 2010

• Beyond a subjective theory of value and towards a ‘fair price’: an organizational perspective on Fairtrade minimum price setting

  Organization, vol. 17, pp. 563-581.

  Juliane Reineke, 2010

• Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States

  Elsevier Policy and Society 27 (2009) 379–398

  Miguel Mendonça, Stephen Lacey, Frede Hvelplund, 2009

• What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?

  Energy Policy Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 4401–4405, Elsevier.

  Gordon Walker, December 2008

• Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development: Towards a New Research and Policy Agenda

  Environmental Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 584 – 603, August 2007

  Gill Seyfang, Adrian Smith, August 2007

• Exploring the application of the Ecological Footprint to sustainable consumption policy

  John Barrett, Nia Cherret, Rachel Birch, January 2007

• Local foods and local markets: strategies to grow the local sector in the UK

  Anthropolgy of Food

  May 2005

• Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations: A Conceptual Synthesis from History to Present.

  Urban Studies 42, no. 11: 2037-2053.

  Frank Moulaert, Oana Ailenei, 2005

• Bartering for a Better Future? Community Currencies and Sustainable Consumption

  Gill Seyfang, 2004

• The concept of social capital in the social economy to local economic develoment in Western Europe

  Conscise Research project 2000-2003

  2003

• The Biodiversity Benefits of Organic Farming

  2000

  The Soil Association, UK

• Local Exchange Trading Systems–A Rural Response to the Globalization of Capitalism?

  Michael Pacione, 1997

One reader’s report

• Book review: The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy, Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Yvon Poirier, October 2012

  International Newsletter of Sustainable Local Development

3 public contributions

• Examining the circumstances of successful social enterprises in times of austerity and challenge

  XIIIe Rencontres du RIUESS, juin 2013, Angers

  Alex Murdock, June 2013

  RIUESS

• Migrant integration: Case for a necessary shift of paradigm

  VIIIemes Rencontres internationales du Réseau Inter-Universitaire de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Barcelone : Espagne (2008)

  Dieu Donné Hack-Polay, June 2008

  RIUESS

• How a social economy organisation promoting festivals and selling beer contributes to a wider vision of social inclusion and solidarity? The case of the Workers Beer Company in the UK and Germany

  VIIemes Rencontres du Réseau Inter-Universitaire de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Rennes (2007)

  Nick Dolezal, Alex Murdock, May 2007

  RIUESS

2 thesis

• Towards a New Form of Economic Development:. Why the need for an Ownership Revolution Has Neve Been Greater.

  Dissertation Economics for Transition, SchumacherCollege MA , Great Britain

  Jerome Birolini, August 2014

• Simply happy? Voluntary simplicity and subjective wellbeing

  Dissertation for the Degree of MSc in Wellbeing and Human Development

  Nadine van Dijk, September 2012

2 articles

• Trickle-up economics

  Article of Prospect, July 13, 2019

  Ted Howard, July 2019

• 6 Groundbreaking Community Land Trusts and Housing Co-ops from Around the World

  Article by RioOnWatch, March 2017

  March 2017