Only when I began to look for our next used car did I realize that I have had Prius envy. With expenses up to $1000 looming shortly on our trusty 1998 Honda Civic, Juanita and I decided, “Let’s just put that money toward a newer one.” So I took the lead and began to look. But what was I looking for?
For the planet to survive we need a new mindset of cooperation and sharing, rather than compete and beat. Life is sacred and property but a loaned privilege, not the other way around as current societies are now run. The main objectives of our productive industries must be directed toward providing the necessary goods and services needed by humanity, not the bottom lines as encouraged by Wall Street speculators. Our human energies must be redirected to useful productive pursuits and away from the various parasitical industries of which we have an over abundance and can do without. Liberal arts and sciences should be supported because they help us to be human as developers of the future. Nation states are political units of humanity that exist for the fair administration and regulation of societies within their borders to assure peace and justice for all, not international warring bands.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 1:27AM Guest Writer in Capitalism, Current Events, Economic Recovery, Education, Environment, Food & Water, Housing & Property, Indigenous Economics, Jubilee Living, Land Use, Limits to Growth, One Earth, Simple Living, Steady State Economics civilization story, earth community, ecological economics, indigenous economics, j. glenn evans, one-earth story, paradigm shift, people's economics SRI in the Rockies, “the premier annual gathering of investors and investment professionals working to direct the flow of investment capital in more positive, healthy, transformative ways,” has been held annually for 22 years. The conference has long since traveled beyond the Rocky Mountains, but the name is a true brand in the socially responsible investing world and thus lives on.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:04PM Jan Schalkwijk, CFA in Capitalism, Current Events, Economic Trends, Environment, Green Energy, One Earth alternative economics, ecological economics, green investing, jan schalkwijk, one-earth economics, sustainable practices Nestled up at the outer edge of the suburban tracts of Claremont, CA, right at the base of Mt. Baldy, a 10,000 foot hill that’s part of the San Gabriel Mountains in the back yard of Myra House, there is a place that quite excellently models what JEM is about. Yet funnily enough, Lee had never heard of it. It took maybe a couple years before he and I finally made the trek up to Claremont. Now that we do the podcasts and are looking for things to cover, we finally took the plunge (helped along by a lecture we thought would be interesting). Owned and created and re-created incrementally by a Korean couple, Sung and Myra Sohn, the property is a living laboratory for alternative living with a distinct spiritual awareness that has a magnetic charm, mainly because as you get to know the folks behind the house and grounds, you can’t help but see that they have both tenacity and grace to thank for all this.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:07AM Ed Lucas in Co-Op, Environment, Gardening, Housing & Property, Jubilee Living, One Earth, Simple Living, Spirituality earth community, ecological economics, ed lucas, faith journey, myra house, podcast, spiritual practices In my recent trip to El Salvador, I was struck by some changes that are benefiting people who are living in poverty there. As part of a group sponsored by El Salvador North America Village Network (ESNA), I was able to get to know and to work with local people in constructing part of a classroom being added to the school in the village that we visited called Suquiyat.
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 12:24PM Guest Writer in Environment, Jubilee Living, One Earth, Simple Living ecological economics, john poole, jubilee, relatedness 
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