NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT

A Note on Logistics, including hotel recommendations and parking, can be found here: NSP Workshop Logistics

The purpose of the meeting is to help set the terms of reference, goals and initial strategy for the first year of the Next System Project. A Welcome Note from Gar Alperovitz and Gus Speth can be found here: NSP Welcome

The meeting will run from 9:00am until 4:30pm, and the Agenda can be found here: NSP Agenda

A list of participants can be found here: NSP Participants

Short biographies of participants can be found here: NSP Participant Biographies

An overview of the Next System Project can be found here: NSP Overview

A background paper for the workshop, including some strategic questions for discussion, can be found here: NSP Background Paper

Optional Additional Reading:

• Gus Speth, "Growth Fetish: Five Reasons Why Prioritizing Growth Is Bad Policy"
• Gus Speth, "America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I"
• Gar Alperovitz, "The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community Sustaining Political-Economic System"
• Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna, "Mondragón and the System Problem"
• John Cavanagh and Robin Broad, "It's the New Economy, Stupid"
• David Coats, ed., Exiting from the crisis: towards a model of more equitable and sustainable growth
• Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Community Rights
• John Fullerton, "Regenerative Capitalism"
• Paul Adler, "The Hidden Abode"

If you think of any other short papers or articles that would be useful as background reading for the workshop, please feel free to send them to Joe Guinan who will arrange for the articles to be posted to this webpage.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Cambridge on December 11th and 12th. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.