People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy

A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy offers community groups, policy advocates, and policymakers a pathway to solutions that work for frontline communities and workers. These ideas have been collectively strategized by community organizations and leaders from across multiple frontline and grassroots networks and alliances to ensure that regenerative economic solutions and ecological justice—under a framework that challenges capitalism and both white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy—are core to any and all policies. These policies must be enacted, not only at the federal level, but also at the local, state, tribal, and regional levels, in US Territories, and internationally.

A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy identifies 14 key policy areas:

1. Indigenous & Tribal Sovereignty
2. Justice for Black Communities
3. Justice for Immigrant Communities
4. Just Transition for Workers & Communities
5. Protections & Investments for Sacrifice Zones & Environmental Justice
6. Healthcare for All
7. Homes Guarantee
8. Energy Sources & Pollution Mitigation
9. Energy Democracy
10. Food Sovereignty & Land Sovereignty
11. Equitable & Clean Energy/Emissions Free Transit
12. Just Recovery
13. Investing in a Feminist Economy
14. Investing in a Regenerative Economy