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jean lievens
July 22, 2016 5:32 AM
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Apichai Puntasen, a good friend and also the author of the first textbook on Buddhist Economics, forwarded me an interesting thesis: * Thesis: The relevance of Buddhist Economics: Capitalism, Morality, and the Global Financial Crisis. By Timothy Allen Golden, 1033690. Dept. of Economics, Lingnan University. Submitted: May 4, 2009 You can obtain a copy from... Continue reading →
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jean lievens
May 19, 2016 3:46 PM
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A non-p2p subject, echoing the last post about Remi Sussan’s webcast.
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jean lievens
March 13, 2016 1:25 PM
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Biology, which has made so many efforts to chase emotions from nature since the 19th century, is rediscovering feeling as the foundation of life.
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jean lievens
February 28, 2016 1:38 PM
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What made you into an environmentalist? Think back over your life to an event that inspired you with care for some special part of our planet
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jean lievens
February 11, 2016 12:17 PM
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New Age transpersonalism leans toward a restrictive non-relational spirituality because of its historical affirmation of individualism and transcendence. Relational spirituality (which is central to the emerging participatory-paradigm) swims against strong and popular currents in New Age-transpersonal thinking, belief, and practice which tend to see spirituality as an individual, personal, ?inner‘ pursuit (often) into Eastern/Oriental non-dualism …
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jean lievens
December 30, 2015 1:53 PM
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A new society could arise on the same technological base that is now still predominantly destroying the social bonds. The digital networks might be the prime catalysts in the transformation from today’s consumer society into what he calls a ‘society of contribution’. This is a strongly recommended interview to get to know the otherwise difficult …
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jean lievens
December 20, 2015 7:42 AM
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Pope Francis, Platform Coops, universal health and opening doors. It's all here courtesy of Nathan Schneider.
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jean lievens
December 9, 2015 12:41 PM
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Excerpted from LISA DEPIANO: “I came to permaculture via community organizing in the global justice movement and drew many connections between what I had learned about being a good organizer and the permaculture principles. The following is a list of 10 permaculture principles with an example of social permaculture in action. This was developed in …
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jean lievens
November 10, 2015 9:12 AM
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Excerpted from Peter Pogany: “The present analysis is interfused with the thermodynamic theory of world history, which is briefly summarized below. Human population and produced artifacts together may be perceived as a material entity, an aggregation of atoms or, even more generally, that of subatomic particles. This entity, culture, has undergone exponential growth through human …
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jean lievens
October 10, 2015 12:52 PM
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Challenging and entertaining presentation by Alexa Clay, the ‘Amish Futurist’ and friends, about the need for soul in technology and despite technology. Watch the video here:
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jean lievens
September 22, 2015 1:49 PM
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"We are artists, activists and entrepreneurs facing, like you, common global problems, from mass consumption and digital overload, to inequality amidst rapid urbanisation. Here, we slow down and reflect on the ancient wisdom traditions - those of the shamans, monks, and long-forgotten mystics - and apply them to modern times.
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jean lievens
July 24, 2015 2:51 AM
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If there is one thing that is certain, capitalism and the hegemony of the rational autonomous ego has had its time, and now it is time for an integral alterity of self and society, wherein human freedom and diversity can be allowed to flourish by expanding the range and depth of human development in all its forms that are more in balance with the planet, and more expressive of the diversity of what is means to be a human being.
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jean lievens
July 19, 2015 4:07 AM
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“In conclusion, I would like to repeat: the future of humanity does not lie solely in the hands of great leaders, the great powers and the elites. It is fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in their ability to organize. It is in their hands, which can guide with humility and conviction this process …
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jean lievens
June 19, 2016 3:32 PM
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The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
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jean lievens
April 28, 2016 4:05 PM
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The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
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jean lievens
March 7, 2016 2:14 PM
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"More and more people are starting to understand that nature has a value that can't be measured in pounds of potential elk meat and truck loads of timber"
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jean lievens
February 20, 2016 5:04 AM
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"Things have to get worse before they can get better." To scratch this kind of talk is to reveal an old heresy beneath the veneer of common sense.
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jean lievens
January 25, 2016 3:28 PM
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The following book review describes the shift from traditional tribal societies, which was based on the trust of knowing each other personally in small communities, to the shift towards big centralized empires, which required a common fear of God to create trust amongst strangers. Contining with such a evolutonary perspectve we could posit the phase …
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jean lievens
December 26, 2015 10:53 AM
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There is no better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than to peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world.
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jean lievens
December 10, 2015 5:35 AM
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In-depth conversation about the role of love in the engaged life, a conversation with David Kim for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Watch the video here:
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jean lievens
November 25, 2015 2:14 PM
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* Essay: Par Cum Pari. Notes on the Horizontality of Peer to Peer Relationships in the Context of the Verticality of a Hierarchy of Values. Michel Bauwens. In: Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Fourteenth Plenary Session, 1-6 May 2008. Acta 14, eds Margaret S. Archer and Pierpaolo Donati. Vatican …
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jean lievens
November 10, 2015 9:12 AM
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Excerpted from Christian Arnsperger: “Generating constant economic growth within a framework of constantly expanding globalization—this is, in a nutshell, the capitalist project when it comes to economic development. I want to argue that such a view—the massively dominant view—of development is existentially wrong….to move towards a genuinely post-development view, we need to tackle the issues …
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jean lievens
October 2, 2015 5:50 PM
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By Pedro Jardim and Alexa Clay for the Berlin Future Forum, October 2015 The beginning of the video covers familiar ground, but gradually the questions of Alexa veer towards spiritual concerns. Watch the video here at:
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jean lievens
July 29, 2015 2:04 PM
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There is … a different sort of economics that helps us see the sense in what Francis proposes—the economics of the commons. This is a tradition that includes the “all things in common” described in the New Testament Book of Acts and the primacy of the common good over private property, upheld from Augustine to modern social teaching. People throughout history have practiced the art of “commoning” to steward goods that states and markets are not equipped to handle. The late Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in economics for her research on how longstanding communities govern resources like fisheries and forests, and today the commons of information is undergoing a revival through practices like open-source software. Communities manage their commons in many different ways, using many of the same tools we use to manage our households—like relationship, custom, listening, ritual and love. Act like a greedy homo economicus at the dinner table, and don’t expect to be offered dessert.
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jean lievens
July 22, 2015 5:09 PM
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* eBook: The Book of Community. A practical guide to working and living in community. (translated by Steve Herrick)Las Indias, 2015. This is an excellent and downloadable Kindle ebook written by the whole team of Las Indias and translated by Steve Herrick. The description is followed by some excerpts chosen by Steve Herrick: “This book, …
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