The course "Economy for the Common Good in the agricultural and food industry" was accepted to participate in the specialist program 2020 "LEHREn - Das Bündnis für Hochschullehre" (alliance for university teaching). The Toepfer Foundation selected the team of Prof. Dr. Christian Herzig, Johanna Stöhr and the coordinator of the Service Learning Center of [...]
Students of 180 Degrees, the world's largest consultantcy for non-profits and social enterprises, are conducting a survey for the Economy for the Common Good. It takes about five to ten minutes to answer the 22 questions about our work and fundraising activities. The survey is fully anonymous and your answers contain no information about [...]
Michael Blasius (BKK ProVita), Anna Zipse and Norman Elmers (both Polarstern), Christina Otzmann (BKK ProVita) | Photo: M. Blasius The ECG health insurer BKK ProVita put three charging points for electric vehicles into operation last Friday. At the headquarters of the company in southern Germany, so-called wall boxes, each with two charging points, are [...]
Christian Felber’s, “Provocation: Can trade be for Good?” is now available online. He discussed the issues of free trade versus protectionism, and introduced a new approach to global world trade as part of the Festival For Change. ECG is an official partner of this online event, which wants to give young people 25 [...]
The petition proposal was recommended by a panel of experts. It advocates the introduction of the Common Good Product, measuring the well-being of the population, alongside the gross domestic product (GDP). A gigantic event, 12062020, – with up to 90,0000 participants – was planned to take place at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on [...]
Christian Felber, initiator of the ECG, joined Ubiquity University for its Global Solutions Summit Humanity Rising. He joined the discussion about alternative economic systems at minute 26:05 in the video above. The goal of the summit is to create an international coalition strong enough to transform conversations that matter into actions that make [...]
Promoting Economic Pluralism has now launched Festival For Change and ECG is an official partner. Christian Felber, initiator of the ECG, speaks at the festival on Thursday, July 30th July at 7pm BST. His session is titled “Provocation: Can trade be for Good?” Promoting Economic Pluralism, wants to give young people 25 and under [...]
The world is in a period of upheaval of tectonic proportions. The COVID19 pandemic has caused seismic tremors that have ruptured long-held beliefs about what economics is and its role in shaping the world. The resulting economic fallout has further fore fronted questions of racial, gender and economic disparities. The climate crisis is asking [...]
Source: forbes.at Forbes Austria published this opinion piece by Antje von Dewitz and Lisa Fidler. The two authors are the CEO and the sustainability manager of Vaude, an outdoor clothing and gear manufacturer that has been an ECG company for many years. The authors stress that the corona pandemic has upset our social life [...]
A first for an ECG Delegates Assembly. After 7 years of face-to-face assemblies, this year it took place online. The advantage of this changed format was a record number of participants and represented countries. We had 98 participants from 12 countries. The Delegates Assembly is the annual meeting of all ECG Local Chapters and [...]
