December 18, 2025
Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! We welcome your feedback and comments at e-news@davidkorten.org. This special Noteworthy edition of our newsletter is a collection of important and timely works we highly recommend. As always, please share with friends and colleagues, and initiate conversations […]
DAVID KORTEN | November 25, 2025
A defining issue of our time is not merely who controls the creation of money; it is for whose benefit they create it. When money is created by private banks for the primary benefit of the few, […]
Presentation to the International American Monetary Institute Conference
September 19, 2025 (via Zoom)
(Watch the video, which includes the discussion following David’s presentation, HERE…)
Text, as delivered:
I am deeply honored to be speaking with you today at this opening session of the American Monetary Institute’s 2025 conference.
We […]
by David Korten/October 28, 2025
In Part I of this two-part series, I examined the conflict at the heart of China’s Two Mountains Theory—the promise of both “green mountains and clear waters” and the “gold and silver” of economic growth. I argued that this framing is […]
This is the first in a two-part series exploring how China’s pursuit of innovative ecological policies alongside fossil fuel-powered economic expansion will have serious consequences for the world’s poor majority. Read Part II here…
David Korten/October 21, 2025
Humanity faces a defining choice: do we climb the green mountain of ecological health and community well-being, or […]
On September 20, 2025, David Korten delivered this talk for “The DEATH and Life of the Green Building Summit,” held in the Cascadia bioregion and hosted by the School of Regenerative Design.
My friends in the Living Building Challenge movement,
For two decades, the Living Building Challenge has set the world’s […]
by Fran Korten and David Korten
October 2, 2025
On Tuesday, September 30, Pete Hegseth, now serving as Trump’s Secretary of War, called together roughly 800 U.S. generals and admirals at the Marine Crops Base in Quantico, VA. No one was told exactly why. It wasn’t framed as a strategic summit or a war council. It wasn’t […]
by David Korten, September 3, 2025
I am putting out this special edition of my newsletter solely to promote the launch of what I believe may prove to be one of the most important and influential history books of our time. It is written by my long-time friend and colleague, Thom Hartmann, a scholar and political […]
David Korten | July 16, 2025
Introduction
A disturbing film, a forgotten history, and a deeply personal journey through Indonesia helped my wife Fran and me better understand both the horror and hope that dwell in the human spirit—and what that might mean for healing the divisions we now face in the United States. Many […]
DAVID KORTEN | July 3, 2025
I recently spent two nights in a local hospital for a minor surgical procedure. It was an unexpected pause in my daily routine and, in many ways, a gift. Not the surgery itself—though […]