“The E3 Network – Economics for Equity and Environment – examines the impacts of new business models such as community-supported agriculture, sharing platforms, community energy, green jobs initiatives.”
From http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nationwide-economist-network-tackles-important-question–has-the-future-economy-arrived-300036675.html: “Promising alternative business models are cropping up all around the country. Do they constitute the new economy people have been out in the street demanding—the one that delivers social and financial benefits broadly while restoring the environment? Ecotrust and the E3 Network—a national network of economists focused on equity and environment—deployed researchers around the country to find out. Armed with an analytical framework developed by a prominent national steering committee, these researchers looked deeply into how new business models function, what their impacts are, how scalable they are, and how replicable they are. Their research forms the initial body of work for the Future Economy Initiative.”
Beginning to End Hunger 