Author and speaker Charles Eisenstein is best recognized for his book Sacred Economics, which traces back the complete history of money, outlining its role in creating a world filled with alienation and competition. In addition to his work as an author, Charles also regularly travels to speak at events and conferences, including a pair of TEDx […]
For thousands of years we have grown -- in population, in energy consumption and in economic output. Today we are beginning to realize that this kind of growth is no longer possible, nor even desirable; that it can be maintained only at greater cost to human beings and the planet.
charl"On this path, you are sure to get lost. But you are held, watched, and guided by a vast organic intelligence. It will become visible when things fall apart ...
I recently explained my decision to switch to a business model based on voluntary payments. I believe that treating our relationship with money as a sacred means to express gratitude after receiving a gift is surely one of the most beautiful and realistic transitions for our current economy; to evolve from an era of greed, competition and scarcity to an era of sharing, collaboration and abundance.
Filiz is coming home. In the great scheme of things, it is a small story, but for the several thousands of us who follow her posts and blogs, it is one of those moments that must be noted, honored. For the last five years Filiz has been, in a very true sense, a citizen of the world. It’s not so much that she left her community behind, rather that wherever she goes she creates community, or more precisely it springs up around her. She lives ‘from the gift’, meaning she shares her wisdom, her energy and her talents freely and by the alchemy of sharing finds places to lay her head, break bread and create her sacred spaces of learning, healing, and celebration. Wherever Filiz lands, women soon gather, circles form, hips shake, bones rattle, and drums rhyme their way into the sky.
A lesson in sustainable Star Trekonomics featuring Charles Eisenstein, George Carlin, Martin Luther King Jr. and a couple captains of the Enterprise...
In this video, David Graeber, Occupy Wall Street activist and author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, and Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, tack.
From an evening hosted by the Gaia Foundation, in London on the 20th November 2013, Charles Eisenstein reflects on the Earth's true nature as a complex living system.
Author Charles Eisenstein sees the end of economic growth as inevitable. And he thinks we can reduce its pain by adopting money that doesn't earn interest.
“In this chapter I will refer to “government” in the context of currency issue, but keep in mind that like all of our institutions, government is going to change dramatically in coming years. Ultimately, I envision decentralized, self-organizing, emergent, peer-to-peer, ecologically integrated expressions of political will. Parallel to this, I envision an ecology of money as well, an economic system with many complementary modes of circulation and exchange. Among them will be new extensions of the gift, freeing work from compulsion and guaranteeing the necessities of life to all.
The old patriarchal conception of masculinity is disintegrating before our eyes. This is a good thing, but what is the next step? I’m Charles Eisenstein, and I’ve been asking this question my whole adult life – for decades unconsciously, and more recently with increasing consciousness. Who am I, not just as a human being, but as a man? Who can I be? And how can I get there?
Here is a conversation with Maria Scordialos, an activist in Greece. We talk about the upcoming referendum, the solidarity economy, the role of fear in politics, the economics and politics of debt, and the revolutionary potential of authenticity in leaders. Maria gives us a peek at what is happening on the ground in Greece. What she says about the authenticity of the prime minister, and how it doesn’t fit into the EU political culture, was especially revealing. It shows that the transformation that wants to happen in Greece goes much deeper than mere questions of money and politics.
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the “whys” a few levels down, they all implicate the money system.
By the standards of a conference, the New Story Summit (NSS) at Findhorn was a tremendous success. It featured a culturally diverse line-up of speakers who illuminated, both through the content of their speeches and also through their authenticity and presence, the deep crisis of our civilization and the possibility of its healing. Grief, despair, and anguish were allowed space alongside hope and inspiration; systems change and personal change were intimately acquainted.
“Why is money so important in our life? Money is designed to always grow. It is an eco to the scientific program, to master the world. In the last four years people were looking out more than ever for new solutions in our economic system. The american author Charles Eisenstein and the german money expert Prof. Margrit Kennedy, who have known each other for a few years and met for the first time on our convention in Munich are having a discussion here about the way we think of money.
JoatU is a transitional application that allows us to smoothly transition into a post-capitalist, heavily (and happily) unemployed world. There may be fewer jobs, but that isn’t to say there isn’t work. We are trading financial capital for social capital (Jeremy Rifkin) and JoatU allows us to begin measuring and rewarding the people who work hardest for our communities. No longer is a good deed just its own reward. You get a reward on top of that! And if you don’t think you ought to receive such a reward? Pass it along to someone else as a gift!
“Designer Vivienne Westwood expressed anguish and alarm at the worsening state of the planet, at a press conference yesterday. “The acceleration of death and destruction is unimaginable,” she said, “and it’s happening quicker and quicker.”
But the reason it spread so fast is because, as I alluded to above, the Gift Economy changes the entire business relationship. Instead of a situation where the client is skeptical and fears getting ripped off because they don’t understand web design and yet are being asked for a 50% deposit up front, causing the client to argue for the lowest possible bid to lower their risk, the Gift Economy places all the risk on me. I built many of my websites this year without any deposit at all, and when I was finished I turned the entire site over to the client 100%. Always, and without any strings attached.
It would be hard to argue that the environmental movement, which began in earnest in the 1960s, and despite several successes in the 1970s, has failed. Today, the Clean Water Act has been ignored with fracking, Fukushima is releasing millions of gallons of radioactive water into the ocean with no end in sight, countries are racing to begin drilling in the arctic which is only possible because of the warming planet.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin calls out President Obama for giving a speech against growing income inequality meanwhile surrounding his administration with Wall Street Bankers. Abby then calls out the corporate media for highlighting a fake phenomenon called the "Knockout Game", while ignoring real stories such as lobbying group ALEC's fight against green energy , The NSA's collection of five billion cell phone records and the UK government's attempt to criminalize journalism by going after the editor of The Guardian newspaper. Abby then speaks with Charles Eisenstein, author and activist with the degrowth movement, which promotes an anti-consumerist economy and a rethinking of the modern money system. Abby then interviews Gar Alperovitz, political economy professor at the University of Maryland about his social prescriptions for democratizing local economies, citing the benefits of credit unions and participatory budgets. Abby then gives props to the fast food workers who are leading protests across the country for better wages and the right to unionize. BTS wraps up the show with a short tribute to revolutionary and peace activist, Nelson Mandela, who just passed away at the age of 95.
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