Towards a new economy and a new politics
by Gus Speth


In Brief: The U.S. political economy is failing across a broad front—environmentally, socially, economically, and politically. Deep, systemic change is needed to transition to a new economy, one where the acknowledged priority is to sustain human and natural communities. Policies are available to effect this transformation and to temper economic growth and consumerism while simultaneously improving social well-being and quality of life, but… Continue

Affirmative Action for Nature will move us towards a Just and Prosperous Society

“What now remains compared with what then existed is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left.” From Plato’s Critias written around 360 B.C.

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Youth Summer Employment, Leadership, Education and Love for Nature

“To the degree that we come to understand other organisms, we will place a greater value on them, and on ourselves.” Edward O. Wilson, “Biophilia”

“How do we find authentic hope in the face of climate change, the biological holocaust now under way…and the void of world leadership adequate to the issues?” David Orr, “Down to the Wire: confronting climate collapse”

Our community and world urgently need transformational leaders,… Continue

The entire article on planetary boundaries can be read by visiting the below website.

Please be part of the Sunday, June 6 biodiversity symposium that is listed under events at local motive project.

http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/docfeed/planetary_boundaries.pdf

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