A Land Backed Currency Issued By A Local Authority

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Ethical Markets Review is delighted to publish this brilliant original paper by Deirdre Kent, author of Healthy Money, Healthy Planet (2005). Deirdre has been an activist for a better common future and in New Zealand politics since the Values Party was founded in 1975. Many members of this early futurist …

3rd Annual Sustainable Economy Conference Press Release

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Press Release: MA 3rd Annual Sustainable Economy Conference Session Spotlights How MA Can Build Bridges to a 21st Century Economy http://sustainableeconomyconference.com http://www.sustainableeconomyconference.com/sec-agenda-2012.php BOSTON – Leaders from Government, Business, Non-Profit, Academia and Community sectors will come together for the purpose of creating sustainable communities and a sustainable economy in Massachusetts. The …

TSL Announces the Agenda for its Capital REformation and Crowdfunding Conference in San Francisco

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 17, 2012 – The SoHo Loft is pleased to announce the agenda for its upcoming Capital REformation and Crowdfunding Conference which will take place in San Francisco on Thursday, May 10, 2012. TSL’s Capital REformation and Crowdfunding Conference will provide key insight …

The Green Economy Movement: Our generation faces huge challenges: a failing jobs market, record inequality, and the growing threat of catastrophic climate change…

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Our generation faces huge challenges: a failing jobs market, record inequality, and the growing threat of catastrophic climate change. But our generation also has the solutions to address all these challenges at once. From coast-to-coast, innovative young leaders are organizing across issue lines to build the green economy as an …

Occupy What?–The Occupy movement captured the world’s attention.

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Occupy What? by G. Benjamin Bingham The Occupy movement captured the world’s attention. In fact for a time it seemed, through the media, that the world was pre-occupied with it. The pre-eminent question was: what “it” was. With ironic smiles the news casters poked fun at the apparently aimless freak …

CDCUs Seek Advisory Role at CFPB

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Press Announcement For Immediate Release Contact: Rafael O. Morales, Public Affairs & West Coast Prog. Officer|[email protected]|800-437-8711 x206 CDCUs Seek Advisory Role at CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Logo(April 9, 2012 – New York, NY) In February, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray announced that the Bureau would be …

Asia-Pacific Foresight Conference ‘Imagine, Innovate, Inspire’ Perth, Australia. November 16-18, 2012

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Asia-Pacific Foresight Conference ‘Imagine, Innovate, Inspire’ Perth, Australia. November 16-18, 2012 The Asia-Pacific Foresight Conference 2012, in Perth Australia, intends to be a multi experiential and an in-depth immersion into pressing challenges the region and the world face, as well as an inspiring look into the potential for making a …

What’s ecosapien doing today?

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Headline from Future Earth-on-the-Mend What’s ecosapien doing today? Ecosapien’s wind/photon/PV electric sailing/delivering food on recombinant hybrid (ecosapien +) bikecycle/triwheel (local/regional mfg. processes passing full ecological audit) produce truck powered by: 1) ecosapien (powered by local org food); 2) flexible PV panel sails (arranged to catch wind if in good pushing …

Federation Leadership Transition Statement by Lynda Milton, Board Chairman – For Immediate Release

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Federation Leadership Transition Statement by Lynda Milton, Board Chairman (Tuesday, March 20, 2012 – Washington, DC) The following statement was released today at a press conference at CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference, and was attended by members of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions’ (Federation’s) executive committee, staff, and …

Video of the Day: Charles Eistenstein on Sacred Economics

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Video of the Day: Charles Eistenstein on Sacred Economics Directed by Ian MacKenzie ; Produced by Velcrow Ripper, Gregg Hill, Ian MacKenzie “Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, …