Category: Alternative Economics

The banking system encircles and ensnares people, buildings and environments, defining cities, credit-rating some higher, no matter their quality of life, infrastructure buffers or exposure. This article explores technologies for smart cities to use the system to better advantage, through more coherent measures, innovation policies and incentives for livability.
The most creative visionaries often cannot function adequately in modern society. The Internet has allowed for non-traditional funding platforms, but the most popular ones fund creative projects, not a creative life. It is time to enable visionaries by funding their existence, allowing them to worry about more pressing matters -- like changing the world.
I have long been impatient with “sustainability,” as if that were an end in itself. Isn’t it more important to think about what we want to sustain, and therefore what we want to create?
[Reality Booty] RS is giving away free copies of What Comes After Money for the 3 craziest, wackiest, most clever slogans for the Occupy Wall Street campaign that are left in the comments section, or on our Facebook fan page. The RS crew will pick the winners on October 11th.
The deep link between money and being is good news because human identity today is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. What kind of money will be consistent with the new self, the connected self, and a world in which we increasingly realize the truth of interconnectedness: that more for you is more for me?
We are on the brink of an apocalypse that some have prophesied will result in a radical shift in how we relate to time. The yogic practice of greedlessness can shift our relation to time; when we let go of the habit of accumulating money and material things, we might have a chance to drop into the present, where our true multidimensional self exists, and where our destiny will be revealed.
When I ask people what is missing most from their lives, the most common answer is "community." But how can we build community when its building blocks- -- the things we do for each other -- have all been converted into money?
Why should money be the root of all evil? After all, the purpose of money is, at its most basic, simply to facilitate exchange — in other words, to connect human gifts with human needs. What power, what monstrous perversion, has turned money into the opposite: an agent of scarcity? – The third installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.
Welcome to the home page for the on-line version of Sacred Economics. This is a book that explores, on a social, political, and personal level, the transition in money and economy that is upon us today. With the agreement of the publisher, EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books, I am making the full text available on line one chapter at a time over a period of about six months. By the end of 2011, the complete book will be on this website. The print version will be available July 12, 2011.
Digital advertisers track your online behavior, creating a detailed personal profile that is owned by the company that constructs it, which can do whatever it pleases with that information, including sell it. Emerging technologies could support a different model that respects our privacy, acknowledges our intelligence, and responds to actual needs, not manufactured desires.

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