Newsletter – September 27, 2023
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Dear Friends,
It’s clear, from even a cursory scan of the headlines, we’re in big trouble. Current standard economics prioritizes growing consumption and financial assets, ignoring the now demonstrated fact that perpetual growth in consumption on a finite living Earth exacerbates inequality, destroys Earth’s capacity […]
This brief keynote was delivered on October 19, at the opening of the People for Earth 2022 Ecozoic Culture Forum: ESG & Integral Ecology for Earth in Crisis, held in Seoul, South Korea, and online. David shared the stage with Mary Evelyn Tucker who spoke on […]
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, July 30, 2020)
Our present course puts humans on track to be among the species that expire in Earth’s ongoing sixth mass extinction. In my conversations with thoughtful people, I am finding increasing acceptance of this horrific premise.
The COVID-19 pandemic, along with climate change, drives home […]
We are now awakening to the responsibilities that come with our distinctive ability to consciously create our future.
(Commentary originally published by YES! Magazine, January 21, 2020)
In 1962, Rachael Carson warned us, with the publication of Silent Spring, that the indiscriminate use of pesticides was disrupting critical ecosystems and causing […]
At the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto, David Korten, Jeremy Lent, Matthew Fox, and John B. Cobb, Jr., presented a series of four sessions focused on transitioning to an Ecological Civilization. Links […]
Jeff Bezos, the new richest person in the world, has asked for guidance on how to spend his fortune to the benefit of humanity.
(This commentary was originally published by YES! Magazine on May 11, 2018.)
Dear Jeff:
I read the CNBC article by Catherine Clifford about your desire […]
We must reduce our burden on Earth’s regenerative systems by approximately 40 percent.
(Originally written for the Winter 2018 issue of YES! Magazine – Solidarity Economies – December 2017)
To have a viable human future on this overstressed planet, it is essential that we build a solidarity economy that seeks material sufficiency […]
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 […]
(An earlier version of this paper was prepared for and presented to the 2016 Donghu Forum on Global Governance: Symposium on Green Development and Global Governance, Hauzhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.)
Abstract: We humans are now a truly global species. Our common future depends on our successful transition to an Ecological Civilization that works in […]
A Report Prepared for and Published by the Next System Project, August 10, 2016
As an MBA student, I learned a basic rule of effective organizational problem solving that has shaped much of my professional life. Our professors constantly admonished us to “look at the big picture.” […]