Ellen Hodgson Brown’s Web of Debt and a state bank initiative

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

I’ve now heard Ellen Brown talk about our dysfunctional money system twice, and started to read her book Web of Debt. I have to agree with Thom Hartmann’s review when he  says “Web of Debt not only demystefies money, but provides some thought-provoking and realistic solutions to our nation’s dangerous dependence on a for-profit banking [...]

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Brilliant 5-minute animated cartoon on the history of fossil fuels

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

The creative folks at the Post-Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, Northern California, have come up with an excellent short video giving a condensed history of the rise and impending fall of fossil fuel economies in the modern world. Narrated by Richard Heinberg, it deserves to be widely disseminated and repeatedly viewed. Fossil fuels have powered [...]

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A non-denominational, spiritual confession of faith, by a business education leader

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

The statement below was formulated by Gifford Pinchot, co-founder and president of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which offers an MBA centered around values of sustainability. He is credited with developing the concept of intrapreneuring, a way of developing sustainability innovations within a corporation. He writes (on his website), “I long for a resilient, ecologically restorative [...]

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