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Della Duncan

Della Duncan is a renegade economist who hosts opportunities for personal and systemic transition to a more equitable, sustainable, and enlivened world. She is a Right Livelihood coach, the host of the Upstream Podcast about alternative economics, a Social and Economic Equity Atlantic Fellow at the London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute, a lecturer on the MA Economics for Transition Program at Schumacher College, a partner of the Eurasia Learning Institute, a Work that Reconnects facilitator, and an alternative economics consultant. She has had training in processes and practices including Theater of the Oppressed, Theory U, improv games, restorative justice, mindfulness, and non-violent communication. She holds an MA in Economics for Transition with Distinction from Schumacher College, a BA in International Relations and Sociology with highest honors from the University of California, Davis, a graduate certificate in Authentic Leadership from Naropa University, and has completed Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects Intensive Program.

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Cultivating Right Livelihood


When framed as an individual journey, right livelihood is less about what is right or wrong at the moment and more about our own approach to work, on both a daily basis and over the course of a lifetime.


Published in Volume 19 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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