Bloom Network Future Economies Hub Launch
🌱 Bloom Network Future Economies Launch
Join us for the official launch of Bloom Network's Future Economies Hub. Connect with others who care about cooperative ownership, solidarity economies, and building local economic power.
This event is hosted by Bloom Network, your local-first social network for creating bioregional economies that care for people and place.
Join the Future Economies hub on Bloom to stay connected after the launch event! https://bloomnetwork.earth/topics/economy
What to Expect:
Meet cooperative developers, solidarity economy organizers, finance professionals, and everyday people building alternatives where they live
Discover collaborative opportunities and connect with projects working on cooperative real estate, community-owned bioregional supply chains, and regenerative tourism
Learn what it takes to build ownership and wealth that stays local
Explore the Future Economies Hub: find collaborators, browse marketplace products, share knowledge, and learn from communities already practicing economic freedom
Network with organizers, economists, and community leaders working on the future of how we exchange, own, and share resources
Who Should Attend:
Cooperative and solidarity economy organizers
People exploring alternative and community-owned business models
Anyone curious about what economic freedom looks like in practice
Lightning Talks by Future Economy Builders
Magenta Light, CEO of Bloom Network
Intro to the event & Bloom Network
Magenta will share a brief overview of what Bloom's social platform is and how its economic protocol works.
Manuel Maqueda, Circular Economy Innovator & Harvard Instructor
Designing Economies That Work Like Living Systems
Manuel has spent his career showing businesses, governments, and communities that the choice between profitability and planetary health is a false one. He teaches applied circular economics at Harvard and has built circular economy programs at UC Berkeley and UCLA Extension, working with organizations from Google to NASA to help them rethink how value moves through a system. He's also the co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition and SUPER, a nonprofit helping companies eliminate single-use plastics. In this talk, Manuel will bring systems-level thinking down to the local level - what it looks like to design an economy that circulates instead of extracts, and how communities can start building that today.
More speakers to be announced soon.
Interested in giving a lightning talk at this or a future event? Apply here.
Whether you're working on cooperative housing, building a local currency, studying solidarity economics, or simply believe your town deserves an economy that keeps wealth close to home, this is your space to connect, collaborate, and create something new together.
Let's build the economy we want, together!