Life as Teacher

To create an economy that works in co-creative partnership with the other organisms that comprise Earth’s biosphere, we must apply the same system design principles embodied in the biosphere’s self-organizing systems.

1. Self-organize without central command and control
2. Be frugal and sharing
3. Organize around place-based communities
4. Reward cooperation
5. Manage your boundaries
6. Bank on diversity, creative individuality, […]
   

Through a largely non-consensual process we humans have created an economic system with characteristics that most resemble those of a cancerous tumor. The challenge before us is to heal ourselves by eliminating the cancer and restore healthy by creating an economic system that mimics the structure and dynamics of a healthy ecosystem.

It turns out that […]