What Has Nature Ever Done for Us? By Tony Juniper “Tony Juniper explains how the welfare of the human species rests on the assets and services provided by the rest of nature and makes the case for natural capital to be integral in a new economy fit for the future.” …
Catalyzing the Connection Economy By Gregory Wendt, CFP, March 2013
Catalyzing the Connection Economy By Gregory Wendt, CFP, March 2013 www.gregwendt.com “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” – Anonymous This is so self-evident, and obvious to me, that I find it surprising that we have to say it at all. Yet …
New Economy Network Letter to Hazel Henderson
Dear Hazel, Since 2009 you and others in the New Economy Network have sought to build a movement for systemic change. This year has been an important one for our network. We’ve transitioned staff and leadership, with younger leaders thriving in both Executive Committee and staff roles, and dedicated ourselves …
Review Of James Gustave Speth’s America The Possible: Manifesto For A New Economy
Author James Gustave Speth is one of the most prominent, knowledgeable, global environmentalists of our time. A quintessential insider, Speth began as an anti-nuclear activist in the 1970s and later chaired President Jimmy Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality. In the 1980s, he founded and led the influential World Resources Institute …
Measuring Immeasurable Change
“We at Ethical Markets are happy to Publish this original article by Paul Glover, one of the true pioneers of local development and true wealth and sustainable communities,” Hazel Henderson, – Editor by Paul Glover There’s obvious need for a new Economy of Generosity, to repair communities and nature. Heroic …
‘Money & Life’ Doc Frames New Economy of Living Systems
In the documentary Collapse, Michael Ruppert puts an incredibly fine point on the fact that, upon a foundation of finite energy, we have built an economic system that demands infinite growth. He adds that we are currently at the collision point of those two forcibly exclusive ideas. Like the various …
Helena Norberg-Hodge wins Global Peace Award!
We at Ethical Markets congratulate Helena Norberg Hodge on winning the prestigious Global Peace Award of the Japan-based Goi foundation. – Hazel Henderson, Editor ISEC?s Director Helena Norberg-Hodge has just been named the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Japan-based Goi Peace Award. She is the first female winner of the …
Forces for Good Highlights Successful Nonprofit Practices
Welcome to our latest www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. In this summer’s edition, we bring you many new developments and site features: We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Evergreen Cooperatives website, which we hope will serve as a resource for community wealth building efforts in many localities. The site …
Rio + 20: Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in the New Economy
The event is open to the public. The Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in the New Economy will be held in tandem with the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The Forum will generate ideas and practical next steps for sustainability and the emerging new economy. The Forum is organized …
A Business Call for a New Economy
A Business Call for a New Economy Greetings, Thanks to all of you who have contributed to the development of this “Call for a New Economy,” which we aim to present to the White House and Congress. We understand that this can be treated as an evolving document. In addition, …