August 14, 2012
You may have noticed a focus in my recent YES! articles on Sacred Earth and the Rights of Nature—key themes of an emerging public debate about fundamental values. It comes down to a defining question: “Will we organize as a global society around financial values and logic or life values and logic?”
Indigenous environmental leaders […]
Since earlier this year, I have given several presentations of my understanding of the New Economy framework and have received a great response to the message.
One key Norwegian NGO, literally translated called Sustainable Everyday, is well respected among all main political stands […]
This report, co-authored with John Cavanagh, identifies the systemic causes of the jobs crisis and outlines a program of corrective action to shift power from Wall Street to Main Street, rebuild the middle class, and unleash America’s entrepreneurial potential. Published by the New Economy […]
This report, for which David is the primary author, makes the case that the institutional structure of the system by which money is created and allocated determines whether America is governed as a democracy or an oligarchy. It presents a series of proposals to create […]
By William Greider, The Nation, November 17, 2010
The president and the Federal Reserve chair were a trifle premature last year when they congratulated themselves for saving the country from a depression. The Fed has now put that claim on hold. Ben Bernanke conceded as much when he dropped the Fed’s $600 billion love bomb on […]
Some of us can look in the mirror in the morning and see someone who is “doing just fine, thank you.” And some of us might see someone in that mirror who is struggling a little (or a lot) in these tough economic times; someone who is losing sleep over an uncertain future, the possibility […]
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By Francesca Rheannon, Managing Editor for CSRwire Talk Back (Feb 2009, first edition Agenda)
Agenda “forges a strong vision of a new, democratic capitalism that can revive the economy and sustain humanity… This vision is not unique to David Korten – it’s one a growing number of […]
While making this shift on a global scale is no small undertaking, it is necessary to displace the current story, and this begins with each of us – wherever we are, […]