6/24/09
6/16/09
David korten on our economy
Why This Crisis May Be Our Best Chance to Build a New Economy
by David Korten
Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet—not the other way around.
Whether it was divine providence or just good luck, we should give thanks that financial collapse hit us before the worst of global warming and peak oil. As challenging as the economic meltdown may be, it buys time to build a new economy that serves life rather than money. It lays bare the fact that the existing financial system has brought our way of life and the natural systems on which we depend to the brink of collapse. This wake-up call is inspiring unprecedented numbers of people to take action to bring forth the culture and institutions of a new economy that can serve us and sustain our living planet for generations into the future.
6/15/09
Ecopsych quotes
These are some quotes collected by an ecopsychology proff. at Naropa.
The Dali Lama has said, “The long term solution to the environmental crisis must come form the positive and the confident. It will never come from the mind of anger and despair. “ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest at one point said he gave the average activist 10 years at most, due to burn-out and being consumed by their anger and strong emotions. The Christian mystic, Thomas Merton said many years ago and still rings true for me today, “There is pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and over-work.. to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too may demands, to commit oneself to too many people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. " The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (her) work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
The Dali Lama has said, “The long term solution to the environmental crisis must come form the positive and the confident. It will never come from the mind of anger and despair. “ Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest at one point said he gave the average activist 10 years at most, due to burn-out and being consumed by their anger and strong emotions. The Christian mystic, Thomas Merton said many years ago and still rings true for me today, “There is pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and over-work.. to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too may demands, to commit oneself to too many people, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. " The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (her) work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
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A Time Comes...
A Time Comes - the story of the Kingsnorth Six from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.
This caught my eye, mostly because I remember hearing about the lady who's in it. She's a kiwi and is from the city that I lived in while in New Zealand last summer. Pretty cool story of change.
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