11. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
12. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Double Entry
Book Keeping
13. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Banking
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Double Entry
Book Keeping
14. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Limited Liability
Banking
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Double Entry
Book Keeping
15. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Limited Liability
Banking
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Double Entry
Book KeepingContract Law
16. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Limited Liability
Banking
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Double Entry
Book Keeping
Credit
Cards
Contract Law
17. Capitalism was built over time, block by block…
Limited Liability
Banking
Private
Property
Ownership
The
Market
system
Tax Havens
Double Entry
Book Keeping
Credit
Cards
Contract Law
18. We must build the
Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative Caring Economy
in the same way: Block by Block
24. Since launching in 2012:
•85,000 members and 400 business support providers
•Mentored more than 20,000 entrepreneurs
•Worked with more than 5,000 startup businesses
•Facilitated the development of 25+ entrepreneur co-
working spaces, and major enterprise initiatives
•Launched 20 startup community hubs from St. John’s to
Smithers
•Mobilized $25m in investment and in-kind resources from
500 volunteers and industry partners
26. Build A Regional Business Network
Businesses and cooperatives working together
to build the regional economy
22
27. Emilia Romagna, Italy
• Population 4.4 million
• $$$, top ten European regions
• 32% self-employed
• 76% work in small business with 4-5
workers
• Italy’s 4th largest exporter
• 400,000 enterprises
• 7,500 cooperatives
• Strong tradition of reciprocity,
regional economy mutual support,
financed by 0.4% levy on sales
•Regional credit system with close ties
to local enterprises
• Lowest unemployment
• Highest rate of citizen satisfaction in
Italy
Cooperating Together
28. Half a million businesses in the region pay a 0.4%
levy on sales to local inter-business organizations.
In return, they receive support with financing,
training, research, development strategies
and export efforts.
32. 1,250 coop members
in industry, agriculture and services,
employing 150,000 people.
Under Italian cooperative law each coop pays
3% of its annual surplus into a national fund
for cooperative development.
47. “Spending Bristol Pounds acts like a plug to stop money
leaking out of Bristol, making a stronger local economy.”
£300,000 in circulation after one year
Backed by Pounds Sterling, held in trust account
49. WIR Bank, Switzerland. Founded 1934
wirtschaftsring = ‘Community economic circle’
Asset based electronic currency
62,000 members, $3.5 billion assets
WIR Bank operates as a counter-cyclical influence whenever
there is a downturn, and credit dries up.
54. Benefit Corporations in Vancouver
Aquatic Informatics
Aroundsquare Ltd
Big Room Inc.
Brix Media Co.
Climate Smart Business, Inc.
Ethical Bean Coffee
Fairware Promotional Products.
Flipside Creative
Hootsuite
Junxion Strategy
Kent Employment Law
Leverage Lab
Light Trail Consulting
Lunapads
Mills Office Productivity
Pyrrha
Realize Strategies
Recollective Consulting
Renewal Funds
RTOWN
Saul Good Gift Co
Save On Meats
SES Consulting
SMAK Food Inc
soulpepper
SPUD
Sustainability Television
Yulu Public Relations Inc.
57. Counting and taxing Nature’s external costs
Regulating effectively to protect habitat
Compassionate care for farm animals
Fully protected habitat zones
A green restorative economy
100% sustainable fisheries
100% sustainable forestry
100% renewable energy
100% organic farming
Zero waste
An Ecological EconomyAn Ecological Economy
86. • 25 First Nations MPs in Ottawa
• BC’s Premier a First Nations woman
• Free college education
• Land treaties signed across the country
• First Nations people becoming teachers,
lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians
• Westshore coal terminal at Tsawassen a
centre for First Nations history, celebration,
tidal energy & eelgrass recovery.
Some First Nations Breakthroughs
by 2032
124. “It is indisputable
that most of Apple’s
best technologies
exist because of the
prior collective
and cumulative efforts
driven by the State.”
- Mariana Mazzucato
127. 40% of all banks in the
world are Public Banks
Germany
Holland
Hungary
India
Japan
Macedonia
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Russia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
129. “When banks extend loans to their customers, they
create money by crediting their customers’
accounts.” - Sir Mervyn King
Governor of the Bank of England, 2003-2013
130. A Public Bank creates credit the
same way private banks do
131. When a private bank creates
money, the interest earned returns
to its investors
132. When a credit union creates
money, the interest earned returns
to its members
133. When a public bank creates
money, the interest earned returns
to the public
134. In post-war Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and now China, public banking
has been at the core of their development success.
In Germany, 432 public municipal savings banks and 1116 cooperative
banks provide two-thirds of all lending to Mittelstand companies, 43%
of lending to all companies and households, and 70% of domestic
lending.
In Australia, for most of the 20th
century the publicly-owned
Commonwealth Bank of Australia was the nation’s central bank.
In Alberta, the publicly-owned Alberta Treasury Branches provide
financial services to 680,000 Albertans, serving 242 communities.
In New Zealand, the publicly owned Kiwibank, established in 2002, has
800,000 customers, operating through the Post Office.
PUBLIC BANKING AROUND THE WORLD
135. Founded in 1919 by the Non-Partisan League
Loan Portfolio of $2.6 billion
Lowest unemployment in US
No state budget deficit
137. Mission
“to deliver quality, sound financial services
that promote agriculture, commerce
and industry in North Dakota.”
138. Much of its loan portfolio is participation loans
to local community banks,
mostly businesses and farms.
By doing this, BND expands the lending capacity of
North Dakota’s community banks,
and absorbs some of the risk.
140. “More profitable than Goldman Sachs,
has a better credit rating than JP Morgan and Chase,
and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003.
Meet the Bank of North Dakota,
the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank.
Return on equity (…) is 18.56%, about 70% higher
than at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan.”
November 19, 2014
145. The Public Bank of
British Columbia, est. 2021
• Stores government and crown agency revenues
• Creates new money by the act of lending
• Saves taxpayers up to 50% in interest costs on critical
infrastructure like bridges, trains and schools
• Eliminates billions in bank fees and money management
for cities and the province
• Supports community bank loans to clean energy, building
retrofits, farms, First Nations projects, value-added
forestry, hi-tech, community development corporations,
small businesses, students.
• Provides counter-cyclical relief by issuing credit at low or
zero cost to revitalize infrastructure and other services
168. Two Organizations Doing Great Work
for a New Economy
New Economics Foundation
London, UK
www.neweconomics.org
New Economy Coalition
USA
www.neweconomy.net
169. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
170. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
171. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
172. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
173. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
174. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
175. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
Green
Business
Certification
176. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
100%
Renewable
Energy
Region
Green
Business
Certification
177. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
Entrepreneurial
State
100%
Renewable
Energy
Region
Green
Business
Certification
178. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Public Banking
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
Entrepreneurial
State
100%
Renewable
Energy
Region
Green
Business
Certification
179. We will build the Green Entrepreneurial Cooperative
Economy in the same way: Block by Block
Public Banking
Regional Business
Networks
Cooperatives Support Networks
Help with
Business
Start-Ups
Community Dev. Corporations
Benefit
Corporations
Entrepreneurial
State
100%
Renewable
Energy
Region
Genuine Progress Indicators
Green
Business
Certification
180. The transition from a capitalist economy
to a green, entrepreneurial cooperative economy
could be one of the defining achievements
of the 21st
century.