January 22, 2026
Time-sensitive: This special Noteworthy edition of David Korten’s newsletter highlights the work of the Movement Voter Project (MVP) and their partner organizations on the ground in Minnesota – it merits our strong support. Please also note the message celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American Independent Business Association. As always, please […]
January 31, 2024
Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago, I joined a webinar discussion of the Earth Charter and its history, hosted by the Deep Tranformation Network. It was led by Jeremy Lent and featured Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of Earth Charter International, and Mary Evelyn Tucker, who was a member of the Earth Charter drafting committee. […]
Newsletter – April 21, 2023
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Dear Friends,
On April 22 we will celebrate Earth Day, a day that 53 years ago launched the modern environmental movement. What makes this day especially significant right at this moment is that we are fast running out of time to align our way […]
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This has been a breakthrough year for the economic transformation movement. Occupy Wall Street, which launched on September 17, 2011 in New York’s Liberty Square broke through the corporate media filter to focus national and global attention on Wall Street as the leading source of systemic malfunction. It has created […]
Surprise election of Donald Trump, introduction to Ecological Civilization as a transformational frame, and my visit to China to share insights on a living Earth economy for an Ecological Civilization
Humanity is poised between breakthrough and breakdown. Environmental and social system failures are accelerating and the related loss of legitimacy of […]
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Inaugural Lecture, The Wayne Morse Center For Law And Politics 2011-2013 Inquiry on the theme “From Wall Street to Main Street: Capitalism and the Common Good,” University Of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 5, 2011
It is an […]
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 […]
Presentation by David Korten for the Interfaith New Economy Planning Group Meeting, sponsored by the Rauschenbusch Center, The Church Council of Greater Seattle, January 28, 2011.