Posts Tagged ‘Paul Hawken’

Blessed Unrest and the Real Wealth of Nations

Posted by: Ben Bingham

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The last two week-ends I read two books that have shifted my understanding and my sense of possibility. Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest in an open ended and artistic way describes the phenomenal immune response of over a million groups dedicated in myriad ways to saving the earth, while Riane Eisler in her book The Real Wealth of Nations deftly attacks the dominator paradigm which is the basis for so many stubborn and wrong headed cultural assumptions, and describes the potential for a world undergirded with an economy based on caring. (more…)

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California Dreamin’?

Posted by: Ben Bingham

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

The Investors’ Circle and Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) were conveniently set in the calendar so that I could take a few days on the Lost Coast north of San Francisco in between. This part of the world is spoiled with conservation easements, open sky and extraordinary beauty which lends itself to a liberal view and a tendency to “build castles in the sky.” As Paul Hawken underlined in his new book, “Blessed Unrest,” Thoreau reminds us that “that is where the (castles) should be. Now put the foundations under them.” (more…)

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