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Warwick Smith @warwicksmith.bsky.social · 1d

We did it. The Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative borrowed $2m in small loans from 330 community members and bought our first building. We will permanently remove the building from the market to be managed by the community for the community #CommunityWealthBuilding
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · Aug 20

Can we have infinite economic growth on a planet with finite resources?

Join podcast host David Miller for episode 1 of our Cities 1.5 mini series about the life and legacy of economist Herman Daly - the father of ecological economics.

🎧 lnk.to/HDE1

@gayaherrington.bsky.social

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Aug 25

This, from @richarddenniss.bsky.social, is one of the best reviews of the #EconomicReformRoundtable. A breath of fresh critical air amidst the group think.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Economic round table recycles broken ideas

ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Türetim Ekonomisi Derneği @turetimed.bsky.social · Jun 23

Katherine Trebeck at Next Economies Summit! 🌍

Next Economies Summit 2025 | September 12–14 | Istanbul 🌃

The Next Economies Summit 2025 will take place in Istanbul from September 12 to 14, organized in partnership with the Prosumer Economy Society and Kadir Has University’s CESD. 🌳

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · Aug 8

🌍 How do we build real belief in wellbeing economics—especially in communities hit hardest by today’s system?

In The Club of Rome’s latest podcast, @tillk.bsky.social talks with @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social on turning hope into action.

🎧 Listen: clubofrome.podbean.com/e/building-a...

New episode - Building a wellbeing economy in turbulent times. The Club of Rome Podcast: Till Kellerhoff, programme director at The Club of Rome, speaks with Katherine Trebeck, political economist and co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll. Black and white portraits of both are set against a yellow and white background with logos of Apple and Spotify in the top right corner.

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Scottish Ecological Design Association @scotecodesign.bsky.social · Jul 20

@katherinetrebeck.bsky.social
Joining us on Day 1 of the our 2025 Conference is Katherine Trebeck!

Info +Tickets are available via the link in our bio or from seda.scot/events

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jul 25

Can we please take climate breakdown seriously now....?
"Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave"- BBC

"for the 14th day in a row a temp of 30C was measured somewhere in Finland - 1st time since records began"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave

After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · Jun 27

They dive into:
🌍 What’s blocking real systemic change
⚖️ How hopeful visions struggle against rising authoritarianism & pessimism
🧱 Why “Lego wins” aren’t enough
Katherine is a member of The Club of Rome & a leading voice for economic system change, learn more: www.clubofrome.org/member/trebe...

Trebeck, Katherine - Club of Rome

31 July 2023 -

www.clubofrome.org

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Club of Rome @clubofrome.org · Jun 27

#PODCAST | NEW EPISODE - Why does the vision of a wellbeing economy that serves people & planet remain both urgent and out of reach? 🌍
@katherinetrebeck.bsky.social joins @tillk.bsky.social to explore this critical tension.

🎧 Listen now: clubofrome.podbean.com/e/building-a...

#WellbeingEconomy

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · Jul 23

The British "wealth exodus" is a big fat myth. Stories of the wealthy fleeing from potential wealth taxes have been pushed by consultancies who sells "golden passports" and residence visas to their wealthy clients. They have a direct stake in pushing this narrative. 1/3

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Jul 23

More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

u.afp.com/SgJo

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · Jun 25

Includes the standout stat that it can be cheaper to fly to London than to take the train to Glasgow ... [19.54] Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/25/b...

Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck

Includes the stand out stat that it can be cheaper to fly to London than to take the train to Glasgow … [19.54]

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 14

Americans’ electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as 18% over the next decade, thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trump’s big, ugly bill.

Red states are likely to see the biggest increases.

Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 2

This piece by @timinclimate.bsky.social is a complete banger. I have really never ever read such a comprehensive analysis of Australia's fossil export emissions like this, it is something else.

Go read the whole thing now --->>>

timinclimate.medium.com/australia-em...

While it is true that formal emissions accounting rules attribute the emissions created from the burning of fossil fuels to the places where these are burned, anyone who tries use this fact to entirely absolve Australia of any responsibility is either critically incompetent or critically dishonest. Most likely both.

Like the incompetent/dishonest example, more than one thing can be true at once. Australia shares responsibility for these emissions because without the endorsement of Australian governments these fossil fuels would never have been burned.

And if anyone tries to tell you that if we didn’t sell them, someone else would: kindly ask them to point to which country is politely sitting on its hands with a fossil fuel reserves capable of meeting 50% of the world’s trade in metallurgical coal, one-fifth of the world’s trade in thermal coal and one-fifth of the world’s liquefied gas. If Australia didn’t supply these fuels, there is no country on the planet that could replace it.

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jul 2

Economists influence policy makers, but not all are equally influential: "Economists shape policy on trade, taxation, regulation &economic stability...mainstream economic expertise influences governments around the world..dominate central banks &multilateral institutions"
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

Reclaiming a Policy Role for Economists

Acknowledging missteps, listening well, defending data, and avoiding jargon will help the profession engage

www.imf.org

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The government is approving projects such that regular people like me have to pay the cost" BSCA member Angela Frimberger on the recent spate of fossil fuels developments in www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved

‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says

www.theguardian.com

Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jun 27

“The algorithm does not understand labour rights”

Great piece on the gig economy: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/gigification...

#WellbeingEconomy

“Gigification”: The Future of Work?

The fight over platform workers’ rights concerns us all, writes Ben Wray.

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jun 24

The Wheelton lecture I did for Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation now online:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLbL...

#WellbeingEconomy #SystemChange #UpstreamChange #SystemCompliantFixes #Assetocracy #PseudoSatisfiers

Beyond Tweaks: Confronting the Economic Elephants in the Room. Keynote Speaker Dr Katherine Trebeck

YouTube video by Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation

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Ohio Bikedude @rholt.bsky.social · Jun 23

Meanwhile, over at the Well Being Economy Alliance, "Better indicators of success than GDP? Start with girls riding bicycles to school", H/T @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social, weall.orgh/T/

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jun 23

My hiding-in-a-quiet-corner-of-the-Nash-for-an-interview-about-Scotland's-#WellbeingEconomy-efforts face.

Scrawled notes are as high tech as I get...

It's at 2 hours 3mins here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Jun 22

The thing is, if we don't continually destabilise the Middle East and make the world a less safe place, we won't need to make as many weapons, and that would be bad for the economy.

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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · Jun 21

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

#WalkForTruth —- now for #Treaty

Walking for Truth, Treaty and justice

Yoorrook Justice Commissioner Travis Lovett’s walk from Portland to the Victorian Parliament is a call to action for all Australians.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Jun 21

Not a single crate has been allowed through, despite the urgent warnings from the world’s humanitarian organisations and the screams of Palestinians. There is nothing normal about the silence in response

Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Jun 19

No baby formula has entered Gaza for four months because of Israel’s genocidal blockades. There is nothing left to feed babies and their mothers can not produce milk as they themselves are starving. There is no defending what Israel is doing. No justification.

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Katherine Trebeck @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social · Jun 14

Daniel Wortel-London, Ph.D. is a deep thinker with eyes on some of the most important questions. When he publishes a book (with such a punchy title!) it is worth taking a look at:

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Menace of Prosperity

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers mak...

press.uchicago.edu

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Centre for Thriving Places @thrivingplaces.bsky.social · Jun 10

REPORT 🔔 👇 Power in our Communities is a new joint report from @coopparty.party.coop‬ and ‪@lcefuk.bsky.social‬, making the case that building consensus for our net zero agenda must start at a local level. party.coop/community/po...

Power in our communities

Read the new report from Co-operative Party and LCEF on building consensus for climate action through community energy.

party.coop

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