What if we measured wealth in terms of life, and how well we serve it? "You really can’t grasp the new story — as a society — and continue to live the way we live. First you begin to move toward more voluntary simplicity, which is, literally, reducing your dependence on money. You start doing more things yourself. You pay much more attention to your relationships, to the gift economy. You perhaps get a deeper sense of being part of and a contributor to a living universe evolving toward ever … Continue reading
Why We Need a New — and Old — Relationship With Our Living Earth
From Yes! Magazine.... "More and more people have come to understand that behaving as if they hold all rights to Earth’s bounty amounts to an eighth deadly sin. "Last summer, when we learned David Korten’s new book [Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth] was scheduled for publication in the same month this issue of YES! would be printed, we started looking more closely at reasons our culture came to be so at odds with nature. We thought it would be useful to … Continue reading
