SELC – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png SELC – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Yassi Eskandari http://permacultureconvergence.com/yassi-eskandari/ http://permacultureconvergence.com/yassi-eskandari/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2015 04:16:52 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/?p=804 [image_frame align=”left” height=”200″ width=”200″ prettyphoto=”false”]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Yassi_Eskandari_Sustainable_Economies_Law_Center.jpg[/image_frame]

Yassi Eskandari leads Sustainable Economies Law Center’s City and Regional Policies work, identifying municipal-level barriers to SELC’s work and producing policy solutions that support community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. For the past two years, she has been particularly focused on the legal barriers to the grassroots sharing economy, including shared transportation, shared housing, urban food systems, and complementary forms of exchange. As the sharing economy has become increasingly popular, her advocacy and voice around the issue has been geared toward bringing the term back to its roots in community interdependence. SELC defines the sharing economy as the systems, organizations, and projects that share ownership, governance, risk, wealth, and knowledge.

2015 Convergence Panel: Resilient, Local Economic Development Without Displacement

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To create socially and economically resilient communities, we need to change or create thousands of city, state, and federal laws. What if every person takes charge of advocating for and passing just one law? By turning community organizers and climate activists into policy advocates for resilient communities, we could ring in an era of new laws that remove barriers to and create incentives for regional food systems, community-owned renewable energy, local industry, worker-owned enterprises, shared housing, and other aspects of thriving communities. Join Christina Oatfield and Yassi Eskandari from the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) for a conversation about what it takes to be a policy advocate. The workshop will:
  • Provide you with 10 Tips for DIY Policymaking
  • Review multiple case studies of successful high-impact policy efforts (including the CA Homemade Food Act, the CA Neighborhood Food Act, and state and local policies to promote worker cooperatives)
  • Include a survey of over 30 model policy ideas for more resilient and people-centered cities
  • Engage workshop participants in a conversation about their policy advocacy experience and how they can develop their personal policymaking goals and plans!

Learn more about Christina Oatfield and Yassi Eskandari

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