“Her … food, clothing, ornaments, amusements, luxuries [all] bear no relation to her power to produce wealth, to her services in the house, or to her motherhood” Charlotte Perkins Gilman. My mother (born in 1926) was a powerful personality trapped in a world not of her choosing. This has made Read more…
I often ponder the economic paradigms we use, and I agree with many of the great modern ecologically minded economic thinkers who have endeavored to illuminate us. Paraphrased, the problem can be simply summed up as, we cannot become sustainable as a planet while our human economic system keeps chasing Read more…
When I was visiting Eire in 2010, I spent a day with critical economist Richard Douthwaite (Book: Short Circuit; The Growth Illusion; The Ecology of Money) to probe his views. After several hours of pleasant discussion, I asked him what he thought a feasible new economy would actually look like. Read more…
As I ponder the logistics of what it will mean to live sustainably, I have to wonder if a centralized or more decentralized system is the way to make it happen. Centralized economies (what we erroneously called Communism) failed miserably – even China had to resort to a capitalistic system Read more…
“The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. The truth applies to individuals and institutions.” Michael Margolis. I had two recent posts on this blog (Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 1 & 2) Read more…