Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, and doesn’t attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning.
Category: Civilization
Economy of permanence
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered podcast
Small Is Beautiful is economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption.
Schumacher offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
https://onlinegreatbooks.com/111-schumachers-small-is-beautiful-economics-as-if-people-mattered/
Digital community currencies for achieving social goals
Local currencies
Local currencies are currencies that circulate mostly locally and at a community level. They work as complementary to an official, legal currency. They are usually accepted by local traders of all kinds, and they give local residents an incentive to shop locally.
You matter – get the good news
Youmatter is an online news media with English and French Editions. Our purpose is to analyze and decrypt all the major issues shaking and shaping our societies. Our ambition is clear: to provide citizens with better tools and information so they can understand and take action in our constantly-changing world.
Nationalism vs Globalism… or what else?
Dr. Gabor Maté On Finding Your True Self Again
In this video, Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation, and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true nature as we move forward through the challenging times of modern culture.
Human Library – Unjudge Someone
The Human Library is very much like a regular library where people go to check out books. The only difference is that the books are all human volunteers who have opted to speak about their experiences openly to an interested audience and answer any questions they are asked.
Free Sustainable Development Online Courses
Sustainable development can be defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs