IACD Members Draft a Declaration on Building Community-Centered Economies.

Share your thoughts, experiences, provide a critical voice or just join in the discussion on the declaration.

Exploring the Declaration Part 1: Discussing the Vision
At the IACD Annual Conference this last June in Brisbane, Australia, members drafted a ‘declaration of intent to work towards community centred economies’. This declaration is very much a ‘living’ document meaning we are constantly adding, discussing, editing and using it in our real lives. In a series of blog posts, we will engage and discuss the different points of the declaration. Share your thoughts, experiences, provide a critical voice or just join in the discussion. You can read the entire declaration on our website at:

OUR VISION (from the declaration)
Economies are for everyone, and are everyone’s responsibility
 
They are valuable to the extent that they achieve genuine, equitable wealth in all it’s forms including cultural, economic, social, environmental and spiritual wealth. The health and abundance of such things as relationships, spirit, happiness, food, housing, clean water and soil, biodiversity, and livelihoods must be primary, to, and served by, our economies.
We call for a move to community centred economies to achieve such wealth. These economies will nourish, and be nourished by, the people within them. But we envisage them not as ‘alternative’ economies, but as the essential building blocks of national and global economies.
 
What do you think of this vision? Does this ring true for you? What are your experiences?