@katherinetrebeck
Political-economist eyes on more humane economies & how they might just be built. Writer-at-large @UoE_EFI #WellbeingEconomy Allegedly dubious music taste katherinetrebeck.com linkedin.com/in/ktrebeck123
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
www.castlemaine.coop
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
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...
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. 🌳
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.
🌍 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...
@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
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...
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...
#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
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
More than 100 NGOs warn 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza
u.afp.com/SgJo
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
“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/...
“The algorithm does not understand labour rights”
Great piece on the gig economy: www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/gigification...
#WellbeingEconomy
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
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/
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...
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.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
#WalkForTruth —- now for #Treaty
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
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...
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...
A little briefing paper that lays out many of the reasons why I keep talking about the need to go upstream to the workings of the economy, and some ideas about what could be better:
nexteconomy.com.au/work/heading...
Prevailing economic systems undermine the best of our values in "yet another instance of individualisation; when it is economic systems that are kicking against the best of people’s values and traits. It is an example of putting the onus on individuals"
efi.ed.ac.uk/systems-work...
"Across numerous governments today, post-Cold War neoliberal model, once promising prosperity & material well-being, but delivering only minimal social rights, is failing to meet demands...The social contract lies profoundly broken..this is a structural problem"
www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-po...
"Would replacing GDP with different measures of progress lead to transformation of policy and more success in the building of wellbeing economies?"
Katherine Trebeck explores the role of indicators when it comes to system change. Read "Indications of a better world" ⏩ earth4all.life/views/indica...
This week, I delivered the first Wheelton Family Oration for the wonderful LMCF.
It’s been recorded and will be shared soon, but in the meantime, and for the TLDR (or TL Won’t Watch 🙂 ) here are a few of the key points:
katherinetrebeck.com/wheelton/
#upstreamchange #wellbeingeconomy
