Jan 31, 2011 | Options/ New Paradigm
The unstated premise of our society is that all of us are born at some level on a socio-economic ladder. Our prime directive is that we must dedicate a substantial part of our waking hours and efforts to climb to higher and higher steps on that ladder. At any step on the ladder we can look down to the comparatively diminished lives we had on the lower steps. And at the very top we–or our descendants–will have attained that perfect Nirvana, the frictionless existence that comes in tandem with virtually limitless wealth.
Jan 4, 2011 | Options/ New Paradigm
The true alternative to Wall Street capitalism is a system of locally rooted, self-reliant economies that honor true market principles.
Jan 4, 2011 | Options/ New Paradigm
As long as money accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our befuddlement will continue. As long as the way we invest is divorced from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As long as the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders whose primary goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our befuddlement at the depletion of our social and natural capital will only deepen.
Dec 6, 2010 | Feature Articles, Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation
ORIGINAL ARTICLE In a world increasingly vulnerable to external shocks, we’re searching for rooted communities—and what we can learn from them. It seems that almost everyone we know is feeling vulnerable these days—whether they are rich or poor, employed or...
Dec 4, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation, Transition
ORIGINAL ARTICLE The following is an excerpt from Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch (Chelsea Green, 2008). Tasch presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and...
Dec 3, 2010 | Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Economic Meltdown, Options/ New Paradigm
[Another glaring indicator of the speed with which industrial civilization is collapsing. Inevitably paralleling the end of jobs as we know them is a burgeoning underground economy which will be well in place when fiat currency no longer exists–CB] ORIGINAL...
Nov 29, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many...
Nov 28, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm
Reprinted from COMMON DREAMS There is a new story emerging that is replacing the old story of human existence. The new story is urging us to learn who we are as humans and how to live so we do not destroy the planet. What is the old story and why is the new story so...
Nov 26, 2010 | Options/ New Paradigm, Preparation, Transition
THE BACKSTORY The emergence of the Transition movement in the last four years or so is one of the most hopeful signs in the early 21st century, and Transition may yet turn out to be one of the fastest-growing, most inspiring, and most significant social change...
