Cartoon (via StrangeMaps) from Rhymes With Orange
What I'm thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:
The Paradoxes of Growth and the Causes of Corporate Pathology: There
is a series of paradoxes and constraints that leads corporations to act
in ways that are pathological and unsustainable. I've put together an
outline of a major article on these paradoxes and constraints,
analyzing why 'good companies go bad', how their resultant excesses
make our economy fragile and ever-extended, and how responsible,
sustainable Natural Enterprises can avoid the pathological missteps and
provide the foundation for a healthy replacement -- a Natural Economy.
We Are 26%:
I read recently (and am trying to find it again) that 26% of North
Americans say they would buy products that are socially and
environmentally responsible, and locally made, or would do without,
rather than buy cheap imported junk, even if this involved considerable
extra expense, or some self-sacrifice on their part. More
interestingly, the economic demographic of this 26% is apparently
U-shaped -- it is the poor and the rich who would do so, while the
lower-middle to upper-middle classes remain mostly addicted to
consumption.
Book Reviews: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards, by Sara Stein, and The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.
Vignettes: Coming up soon, vignette #5.
Blog-Hosted Conversations:
Starting September 3rd, once a week, this blog will feature
30-minute conversations, initially on the subject of "What is your
model of a better way to live, and what capacities do we need to
develop or re-learn to live that way?"
Open Thread Question:
How
can we effectively "de-school" the world -- replace the dysfunctional
education system (and its bums-on-chairs lectures, classrooms, teachers
and textbooks) with a voluntary, self-managed learning process based on
discovery, apprenticeship, coaching and facilitation out in the real
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