 By Rick Fullerton | Bio
Earlier this month, I was away from home for
over a week on business. In itself, this is not a big deal. Lots of
people travel more frequently and farther than I do. Yet for me, this trip was filled with unexpected feelings of gratitude and wonder. At the outset, it was to be a routine work trip to two cities to
conduct seminars at the completion of the MBA course I teach. What set
this apart was the opportunity to be in Calgary, the home of Canada’s
energy sector and fastest-growing city in the country.[ Read More]
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Here is what I call the ‘Eldering Consumer Checklist’ in this new
marketplace. Actually it is a checklist for all consumers—it just comes
more naturally as we get older and start living on a fixed (finite)
income. We can take it with us and ask these questions before we spend
a nickel on anything.[ Read More]
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I wrote a post on growth
a while ago about how insane I think it is to believe we can grow
forever—at least in terms of economic growth. I was also reading The World We Want posts
by David Korten that echoed the same sentiments but that go further to
point out that all the breakdowns that are appearing are perhaps the
greatest creative opportunity in history. That got me thinking that
while I think there are limits to economic growth, this is only true in
a finite and deterministic worldview—in a paradigm of scarcity.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out the
choices we must make together to survive together are the same choices
we must make to create the very world most of all the world’s people
want? If that were case, then we should be able to just get together
and make it happen. Wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe we should start a
conversation to find out what people truly want…[ Read More]
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Memorial Day is about remembering the sacrifices of our countrymen and
women in past wars—it is all about patriotism and not forgetting that
every American must do their part to sustain our democratic freedoms.
As I listen to folks talking, however, there are no conversations about
this or about much of anything other than reminences about last week's
golf games or past adventures or what is so-in-so doing these days.[ Read More]
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Long weekends are often an opportunity to catch up on chores, connect
with family and friends, and sometimes find time for reflection. This
Memorial Day, the reality of the war in Iraq is very present in our
thoughts and conversations. This article, Thinking for Ourselves,
by Shea Howell, from the Michigan Citizen, invites us to commit to
ending the war and to "restore our people and our country to life." [ Read More]
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According to Professor Yarrow, a history professor at American
University, it is unpatriotic to retire while you are still in good
health.
"Retiring when you're still in good health isn't just
wrong, it's profoundly selfish and unpatriotic...Dropping out of the
workforce while still in one's prime means ending one's contributions
to America's strength, mortgaging our children's and grandchildren's
future, and leeching trillions of taxpayer dollars from the economy...
If millions of Americans worked until age 67 instead of 62...[they]
would increase national output and personal wealth and keep the labor
force at a healthy level." [ Read More]
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Life happens while we are having conversations with ourselves and other people. Not learning from others may have a lot to do with not truly
‘listening’ to what others say. Listening is the context that makes
life intelligible, allows anything to have meaning, and forms the basis
for all communication (both written and spoken). It is a whole lot more
than just ‘hearing’ the words that are spoken. I’m always listening,
always bringing a prior interpretation or understanding of my world to
every situation I encounter or can imagine encountering. This is the most basic aspect of being a human being I know.[ Read More]
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
The green-crested hummingbird is at my window again this morning,
hovering in mid-air sunshine and snatching bits of food from the plants
as they begin to bud. He appeared in my life a few weeks ago, and has
been coming back every day without fail. Today his weightlessness seems
like a metaphor for a new way of Being.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
This brings us to the third element of the
big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother
Earth: the governing institutions to which we give the power to set our
priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such
injustice could happen in a world governed by democratically elected
governments. The answer is simple and alarming.[ Read More]
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