The WEAll Ireland Hub organised a series of events during 2024 and 2025 which examined the symbiotic link between a Wellbeing Economy and a functioning housing system. This report synthesises these discussions and provides a range of recommendations.
Strengthening Local Food Economies
Webinar
This Feeding Ourselves webinar asked: what would it take for local food producers to finally get the support they deserve?
Project: Local Food Economies in Ireland
In 2025-2026, Feasta, Talamh Beo and Cultivate (The Sustainable Ireland Coop) are collaborating on a two-year research and advocacy project on local food economies in Ireland.
Blame Reagan
How in the world did the U.S. end up in its current mess, with a President and his agents actively demolishing the federal government and its infrastructure, Congress sitting by complacently, and a significant minority of the population cheering the bonfire?
Podcast: Perspectives on the Wellbeing Economy and Planetary Health from Mexico
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Simon Ticehurst, Advocacy and Movements Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They discuss how the wellbeing economy concept can help tackle the urgent challenges of planetary health.
Feasta Annual Report 2024
Last year's annual report summarises the work and achievements of Feasta in 2024, including the Rethinking Growth Conference. With a foreword by Mike Sandler, Chair of our Board of Trustees.
In the article on the 'Paradigm Shift' website, Hania Imran describes the potential effects of Cap and Share - a framework for a fair phase-out of fossil fuels - in Pakistan.
Carbon rebates, also known as carbon dividends, are regular payments made to households funded by carbon pricing revenue. This policy seems to have been positive for both the Canadian people and the environment —so why has it won so little public support? By Olivier Bradley.
As part of Feasta's activity in the Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub, we participated in this webinar on the role of Cultural Creatives in imagining a new economy.
"Carbon dividends, and universal basic income, could provide a democratic form of populism that would stave off the move toward authoritarianism that is rising not just in America but around the world," writes Mike Sandler.
The COP29 proposal to use private investment to bolster climate finance is both unethical and impractical. Caroline Whyte suggests an alternative approach.
David Somekh and Caroline Whyte speak with Dr Tony Holohan, the former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland and the director of the new Collaborating Centre on One Health at University College Dublin.
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