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The law of the ground is sharing
What does Thanksgiving have to do with an election? This year, a whole lot. The start of the season of sharing follows close on the heels of a season full of not-so-generous attitudes. I’m thinking of Mitt Romney’s sour note … Continue reading
Posted in nature, politics, spirituality
Tagged Aboriginal, community, Deborah Bird Rose, ecological economics, election, Indigenous, interest, Joshua Farley, land-community, ownership, potlatch, property, redistribution, Ronald Trosper, sharing, sustainability, Thanksgiving, volunteering
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Why I support Occupy Wall Street
In a word: health. The health of the planet. Put simply, a huge gap between the fabulously wealthy and everyone else is bad for the planet. Why? Because such a system is wasteful and costly. It’s wasteful because it allows … Continue reading
Posted in nature, politics
Tagged attitudes toward nature, climate change, ecological economics, economics, global warming, inequality, sustainability
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Toward an Earthwise economy, part 1: Ecological economics
The economic crisis we’re in gives us an undreamed-of opportunity to make course corrections in our economy and our lives. Today’s post marks the first in a series taking a serious look at viable alternatives to the economic practices and … Continue reading
Posted in education, nature
Tagged ecological economics, Laurel Ball
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Earth is the new bottom line
Yesterday I wrote about air money, and I explained that one reason companies can look more profitable than they are is because our standard accounting practices don’t require them to mention that, oh, by the way, they just destroyed a … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperation, ecological economics, financial crisis, natural resources, recycling, sustainability, Tom Friedmann
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Air money—or bringing the financial crisis down to Earth
The present economic crisis has been explained in many ways: a mortgage meltdown, a housing bubble burst, the collapse of fancy financial instruments. But all of these explanations point to a problem that plagues our economic system at its core: … Continue reading
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Tagged ecological economics, economics, financial crisis, Herman Daly, Michael Mandel
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