12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern Time

What lies at the intersection of racial inequality, a global pandemic, and concerns about climate change? Our democracy.

BIOGRAPHY:

Celina Caesar-Chavannes is a business consultant, coach, and international speaker. She currently serves as the Sr. Advisor, EDI Initiatives and Adjunct Lecturer at Queen’s University and was the former Member of Parliament for Whitby, Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Parliamentary Secretary for International Development.

The lecture will be bilingual. If you have any questions, please contact ilst@glendon.yorku.ca

Register for The Intersection of Racial Inequality, a Global Pandemic, and Climate Changer

11:00am - 12:15pm Eastern Time

Local movements and community organizations are key players in the transition to low-carbon societies. A growing number of frontline groups is mobilizing just transition language and framings to support their fight against racial, gender and social injustices within their communities. This session of our Just Transistion Research Collaborative webinar series will bring together researchers and grassroots activists to discuss the role of community-based efforts in promoting and implementing just transitions and bringing about transformative change at the national and international levels.

Register for the Community-Based Action for Just Transitions webinar

Speakers

• Lizeth Chacon, Executive Director, Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA)
• Gerald Taylor Aiken, Research Associate, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
• Ankit Kumar, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

Moderator: Edouard Morena, Lecturer in French and International Politics, University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)

Since 1977, NASCO's Cooperative Education & Training Institute has been widely recognized as one of the most important training and networking opportunities available to members, directors, staff, and managers of group-equity cooperatives. The annual NASCO Institute is always a one-of-a-kind opportunity to network with hundreds of cooperative leaders and employers, to caucus about pressing issues, and to work on building an inclusive and accessible cooperative movement.

Choose your own Future

Currently, cooperatives are facing uncertainty as all of us are in this new reality.  We are focusing on our commitment to a brighter future. Cooperatives are full of imagined possibilities and real solutions to problems of the present and the future. This year we will bring together cooperators to bring to life the future we want to see.

Learn more and register for NASCO Institute 2020

10am to 4:30pm Eastern Time

Join the third annual Community Wealth Building Summit. This one-day summit is the premier UK event for uniting, informing and inspiring the community wealth building movement.

This year’s summit will showcase how community wealth building is being used to rebuild and reform local economies reeling from the impact of Covid-19. It will provide insight into policy and practice from city mayors, national and local governments, communities and practitioners in the UK and beyond; helping us all to build fairer, sustainable, and more resilient local economies in these unprecedented times.

Register for the Community Wealth Building Summit

This year’s event will present opportunities to hear from global thought leaders who are progressing community wealth building policy and from emerging and established practitioners

The summit will help you to:

• Learn how community wealth building can and should be placed at the heart of the Covid-19 recovery effort;
• Understand how community wealth building represents a break from failed economic planning;
• Increase awareness and understanding of the ideas behind community wealth building and the places where they are being applied.

Learn more about the Community Wealth Building Summit

1:00pm to 4:00pm Eastern Time

Sunday, October 25, 2020 is the date of the 40th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures. Kali Akuno and George Monbiot will speak addressing the topic “Land as a Commons: Building the New Economy.” The virtual event will take place from 1pm to 4pm Eastern Daylight Time. The two talks and the live-streamed discussion following will be free to all registered.

The topic is land access, the problems generated by a concentration of ownership, and ways of creating a more fair and equitable system. The Schumacher Center’s own response to the inequities in land access is to call for a voluntary gifting of land into regional community land trusts where its use can be allocated through lease agreements in a socially determined manner outside of market forces.

Register for "Land As Commons: Building the New Economy"