May 23, 2019, First Version
[This working paper was written by author, independent scholar, engaged citizen, and former Harvard Business School professor, Dr. David Korten, as a contribution to discussions framing a new economics for the 21st century. It may be freely shared in whole or in part. (The latest version of this paper (August 18, […]
Soil, not money, is the source of wealth, and our economic system needs to reflect that.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, April 23, 2019)
For many years, I have been seeking to understand why we get our economic policies so terribly wrong and how we might get them right. I have long believed […]
Socialist baiting of the last century won’t work against the new generation of political leaders.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, posted Feb 27, 2019)
This month the Green New Deal was introduced in the U.S. Congress with much fanfare, and its opponents quickly mobilized.
The resolution is more than a set of specific legislative proposals. […]
We need true democracy if we’re to halt the slide into self-extinction.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, posted Feb 7, 2019)
This is part two of a two-part series. See part one here.
Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule.
In a […]
The founders of the United States have the society they wanted—one that keeps people like them in power.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, posted Feb 1, 2019)
This is part one of a two-part series. See part two here.
We grow up in the United States proud of our nation’s […]
| TONIGHT, David will be wearing his board-chair-of-YES!-Magazine hat at the second annual Celebration of People Power at Seattle Town Hall, with best-selling authors Alice Walker (The Color Purple), Frances Moore Lappé (Diet for a Small Planet), Hawaiian musician Makana, Fran Korten and the […] |
In 2019, we must move beyond the myth of the lone individual to recognize our deep interdependence and responsibilities for one another and nature.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, Dec 31, 2018)
It’s not likely that many of us will mourn the passing of 2018. It’s been a deeply troubled year defined by wildfires, […]
By Satish Kumar, author of Soil, Soul, Society.
This article was first published in Resurgence & Ecologist issue 310, September/October
2018. Reprinted here with permission from the publisher. To buy a copy of the magazine, read further articles or to find out about the […]
This paper was presented to the 12th International Forum on Ecological Civilization – Ecological Civilization and Symbiotic Development, April 27-28, 2018, Claremont, CA, USA
We have arrived at a defining moment in the human experience. Either we find our common path to an Ecological Civilization that meets the essential material needs of Earth‘s human population in […]
This presentation was delivered by David Korten at the Transition City Seoul conference hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and organized by The Seoul Institute, on October 11, 2018.
Thank you. It is a very special honor to be invited to share my thoughts with this distinguished group on the human transition to an ecological civilization. […]