Report from Norway – July 2017
A report to Living Economies Forum – Seen with Norwegian eyes. Can we save the Nordic model and can it be a useful guide to a better world?
By Jacob Bomann-Larsen, LEF Fellow
By Jacob Bomann-Larsen, LEF Fellow
This year most of my time I have spent on trying to stop our blue-blue government from destroying our local municipalities through its profit oriented municipality reform. I will write more about that in the last part of this report.
TTIP
A couple of weeks ago I […]
Forget the GDP, it's time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, June 14, 2017)
David Korten’s presentation to the Summit on the Future of Corporations, Faneuil Hall, Boston MA, November 13, 2007.
It is fitting that we hold this conversation on the future of the corporation in historic Faneuil Hall, the Cradle of Liberty. Deliberations in this very room more than 200 years ago were the first step on […]
In explaining why his city got rid of monuments to Confederate generals, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu eloquently summarizes our country’s history of diversity.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, May 26, 2017)
The integration of knowledge, science, hospitality, and travel can have huge benefits for human connections and peace.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, May 17, 2017)
This is the real-world economy for a living Earth that we must learn to structure and manage to provide a safe space for humanity.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, May 3, 2017)
Has Trump served us all in breaking things open? Only if we use the moment for serious rethinking of policy.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, April 19, 2017)
David was invited to write this article for the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of the Kosmos Journal. Enjoy this beautiful PDF version; Kosmos Journal subscribers have access to the full article online.
We humans live by stories that express the shared values and beliefs that allow us to […]
Local Control is a foundational conservative principle - but progressives also embrace it.
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, April 5, 2017)