December 18, 2024
A Transformative Conversation on Moral Economies
Please join us for this interactive online Forum hosted by Jonathan F.P. Rose, Co-founder of the Garrison Institute.
Our economy is many things: extractive, inequitable, unsustainable. An emerging field, seeks to redefine what economies can be if they were centered on flourishing, equity, sustainability, and interconnection. These Moral Economies theories go by many names:- Conscious Capitalism, Regenerative Capitalism, Catalytic Capital, Collaborative Ownership, Reparations Finance, Pre-Distribution, Impact Investing, and more.
This session will offer a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge perspectives on this intersection of economy, ecology, and ethics. This meeting is the latest in the Garrison Institute’s continued work to advance and support the growing field of Moral Economies, fostering deeper collaboration among related, but often disconnected, networks and organizations. By amplifying and connecting these efforts (naming a field, and mapping it), we can contribute to a sense of identity, shared purpose, and collaborations that lead to systemic change.
The Garrison Institute’s Moral Economies Project has brought together thought leaders of this movement, to identify the common elements among these global transformative initiatives. Together, we are charting new pathways toward a more just, regenerative, and sustainable future. Through our ongoing mapping of these distinct efforts, we are uncovering and exploring commonalities that tie together diverse efforts to foster wellbeing and economic change.
********This live Forum will be on Zoom from 12:00-2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday December 18, 2024. After registering, you will receive a link to join the session. Please email us at events@garrisoninstitute.org with questions.**********
Join us on this webinar to hear dynamic presentations from a range of thought leaders in the field. Each will share their work, spotlighting innovative approaches to building economies rooted in moral and ecological values.
Why Attend?
- Discover groundbreaking work at the intersection of economics and wellbeing
- Join a network of changemakers and thinkers with powerful new ideas and applications of contemplative wisdom to finance, equity, and system design
- Explore how diverse economic models can coalesce to create lasting, sustainable change
- Gain insight into the Garrison Institute’s efforts to map and build a cohesive field around moral economies
Registration is free (donation encouraged)
Featured Presenters and Panelists
- Amanda Janoo (WEAll): Reimagining Economies for Wellbeing at the Country Level
- John Fullerton (Regenerative Capital): Re-imagining the Economic System as an Ecology
- Samantha Power (Bioregional Finance): Economies that Connect People, Ecologies, and Place
- David Sloan Wilson: Evolution and Economics
- Enith Williams (Reparations Finance Lab): Reparations Finance
- Anna Muoio: New Capitalism: A View of the Emerging Field
- Dominic Hofestetter , Trans Cap: Another View of the Emerging Field
- Justin Winters (Climate Finance Tracker): A Model for Tracking and Connecting Funders and Ecosystem Builders
Jonathan F.P. Rose is a noted global expert in sustainable development and regenerative communities. He is Co-Founder and Board Chair for The Garrison Institute, and Founder and President of Jonathan Rose Companies, a mission-driven company focused on enhancing the health and wellness of its residents with green, energy-efficient property improvements and through its Communities of Opportunities programming. In 2024, he was awarded Bhutan’s prestigious Druk Thuksey Medal (“Order of the Beloved of the Thunder Dragon”) for helping create and implement the Thimphu Structure Plan, a framework for sustainable development in Bhutan’s rapidly urbanizing capital city. Jonathan founded the Pathways to Planetary Health initiative at the Garrison Institute.
Amanda Janoo is the Economics and Policy Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL). Amanda is an economic policy and systems change expert with over a decade of experience working with governments and international development institutions around the world. Her work aims to build just and sustainable economies through wellbeing-oriented and participatory policy design processes. Prior to joining WEAll, Amanda worked for the United Nations and the African Development Bank as an industrial policy and structural transformation expert. As a Fulbright researcher, she explored the relationship between international trade and informal employment. She holds an MPhil from Cambridge University and heralds from the green mountain state of Vermont, in the USA.
John Fullerton is an unconventional economist, impact investor, writer, and some have said philosopher. Building on and integrating the work of many, he is the architect of Regenerative Economics, first conceived in his 2015 booklet, “Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Patterns and Principles Will Shape the New Economy.” After a successful 20-year career on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director of what he calls “the old JPMorgan,” John listened to a persistent inner voice and walked away in 2001 with no plan but many questions. A few months later he experienced 9-11 first hand. The questions crystalized into his life’s work with the creation of the Capital Institute in 2010 where his work reflects the rising evolutionary shift in consciousness from Modern Age thinking to Integral Age thinking. Capital Institute is dedicated to the bold reimagination of economics and finance in service to life. Guided by the universal patterns and principles that describe how all healthy living systems that sustain themselves in the real world actually work, the promise of Regenerative Economics and Finance is to unlock the profound and presently unseen potential that is the source of our future prosperity and the reason for hope in our troubled times. A committed impact investor, John is the Chairman of New Day Enterprises, PBC, the co-founder of Grasslands, LLC, and a board member of the Savory Institute, and Stone Acres Farm, and is an advisor to numerous sustainability initiatives.
Samantha Power is a Co-Founder and the Director of the BioFi Project and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Finance for Gaia. She is a Regenerative Economist, Futurist, and Bioregionalist based in Oakland, CA on the ancestral land of the Ohlone people. Samantha believes we need to build a new layer in the global financial architecture to halt the sixth mass extinction and she is dedicating her life to doing just that. For 15 years now, Samantha has been asking “How do we change where money is flowing so that it supports, rather than destroys, life?” This question has taken her to many different geographies, communities, and institutions — from rapidly disappearing rainforests across Southeast Asia, women’s community lending circles in Myanmar, the US Treasury Department, the UN, the World Bank, as well as the impact investing community. Ultimately, it landed her amidst the redwoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Samantha took stock of what she had learned trying to change financial flows from the top down. She began deepening her listening to the people she saw doing the most urgent work in the world right now: regenerating the Earth’s lands and waters. Samantha channeled what she learned into a new book: ‘Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet.’ The book makes the case for, and explains how to build institutions to shift capital to place-based regenerators to achieve global climate and nature-related goals, while enabling the transition to regenerative economies.
Enith Williams is the Managing Director of the Reparations Finance Lab and an advisor to 17 Asset Management. Her career spans international economic and social development, including senior banking roles with Merrill Lynch and work with the Jamaican government. Early in her career, she was a program associate with the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and later contributed to the New York City Housing Partnership’s economic revitalization efforts. She is the Founder of the Downtown Kingston Music Theatre, which engages youth through musical theatre. Enith, a published author of short stories and poems, currently resides in New York City.
Anna Muoio is a social impact leader and system change strategist. As Founder of The Theory of We, she continues her work helping groups build shared strategies, coordinate action and shift systems, aligned behind a shared vision for what’s possible and a smart plan for moving towards it. Since 2020, Anna has been the Lead for the New Capitalism Project (NCP), a system change effort to reimagine capitalism by shifting the norms, behaviors, rules and practices of business and financial sector leaders. The NCP Lab, launched in 2022, serves as a space for economic system change leaders to incubate and experiment with systemic interventions through powerful collaboratives that build resilient networks of impact. Anna speaks regularly at conferences on the power of aligned action and innovation to drive social change. She is the author of field-shaping pieces such as: GATHER: The Art and Science of Effective Convening; ENGAGE: How Funders Can Support and Leverage Networks for Social Impact; “Wicked Opportunities” in Deloitte’s Business Ecosystems Come of Age; PARTICIPATE: How to Engage Business in Social Impact Networks, and SHIFTING A SYSTEM: The Reimagine Learning Network and How to Tackle Persistent Problems.
Dominic Hofstetter is the Space Building Lead of the TransCap Initiative. He initiated and incubated the TransCap Initiative when he was the Director of Capital and Investments at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative, where he was responsible for building the organization’s nascent investment function. Before joining EIT Climate-KIC in 2015, Dominic had worked as an entrepreneur at the renewable energy start-up Electrochaea, as a private equity investor at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and as a finance professional in the institutional asset management division of Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an MSc from the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.
Justin Winters is committed to democratizing climate philanthropy in order to create an inclusive and impactful movement to address the climate crisis from the ground up. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of One Earth, a philanthropic organization working to galvanize science, advocacy and philanthropy to drive collective action on climate change. Through One Earth, she is focused on creating a vision for the world that is possible by 2050 – one in which humanity and nature coexist and thrive together. This vision is based on three pillars of action: 100% renewable energy, protection and restoration of 50% of the world’s lands and oceans, and a transition to regenerative, carbon-negative agriculture. Prior to One Earth, Justin served as Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for 13 years, where she built the organization’s grant-making program, which awarded over $100 million in grants across 60 countries and created a series of innovative philanthropic funds, including Oceans 5, Shark Conservation Fund, The Solutions Funds, Lion Recovery Fund, Elephant Crisis Fund, and Quick Response Fund for Nature.
Liz Grant is an Assistant Principal (Global Health) and Director of the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh. Liz holds a chair in Global Health and Development. She is responsible for developing and supporting global health partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) communities, and for local and global advocacy translating global health research into action. Liz is a co-director of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Compassion Initiative developing work on the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals, the science of compassion, and the contribution that faith communities make to the SDGs. She currently is the Co-Director of the Masters of Family Medicine and the MSc in Global Health Challenges. Her own research interests span planetary health and palliative care in contexts of poverty and conflict – new beginnings and better endings. She sits on the Scottish Government NHS Global Citizenship Board. Liz was on the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, (CUGH), an association of over 170 Academic institutions training in Global Health, and currently chairs the CUGH Research Committee. Previously, Liz was the Senior Health Advisor to the Scottish Government’s International Development Team working primarily in Malawi. She has worked for NHS Lothian’s Public Health Directorate leading an NHS HIV partnership between the NHS and Zambia.
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