…there were certain benefits to organizing as a cooperative. The Spanish government normally exacts a hefty self-employment tax for independent workers—on the order of about $315 per month, plus a percentage of income—but if one can claim one’s work as taking place within a cooperative, the tax doesn’t apply. Amid the cascading crisis, people were… Read More One I Watch: Spain’s Robin Hood, Enric Duran
How birthing takes place matters; how infants are raised matters; having a rich and active dream life matters. Animals matter, and so does ontological security and the magic of personal interaction and healthy and passionate sexual expression. Career and prestige and putting a good face on it and the newest fashion in art or science… Read More Excerpts from Coming to Our Senses
I discovered Earthsea as a girl. Took me this long to hear its creator speak: “I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.”
Before leaving on my spectacular (rideshared) roadtrip to Paris for the OuiShare Fest (more about that soon), I had the chance to meet and hear the philosopher Charles Eisenstein speak. I’ve posted about Charles before; his book Sacred Economics has been a major source of inspiration. At the event, someone asked him: what is your role?… Read More The Abundance Vortex
Yes we need a new cosmology. We need to replace the foundational myths we’ve outgrown from religion and science and the market. Here’s David Korten’s new story in a nutshell (though I really recommend the whole essay): As living beings, we survive and prosper only as contributing members of a Living Earth Community birthed by… Read More The New Story We Need to Shape the Economy (and Life)
