November 23rd, 2011 | Currency, D.I.Y., alternative, currency, Jem Bendell, LETS, open-money, talk, TED, timebank, video
Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organizations.
October 3rd, 2011
This is a very exciting movement, people coming together in Greece creating ways to network, exchange goods and services and support each other. The movement for alternative currencies is growing in North America and other western countries as well. There is a group here in Vancouver BC called Vanco ...
July 13th, 2010
I am reposting this rather militant article I wrote last year for a local magazine in Los Angeles which has now gone under. Although it was written a while ago, I have to say that I still agree, but now I think that many 'sleeper agents' are already awake - watch out multinational corporations! ...
July 3rd, 2009
Published in Far West Almanac July, 2009. Follow-up to the article: For Generation X Eyes Only. Any political, economic, theological, or philosophical system that in practice rewards production over life is illegitimate because, tautologically enough, it does not value the lives of its citizens o ...
April 2nd, 2009
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD Medicinal Stories that Nourish the Soul A culture that requires harm to one's soul in order to follow the culture's proscriptions is a very sick culture indeed. This culture can be the one a women lives in, but more damning yet, it ca ...
March 25th, 2009
It's that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when everyone is itching for rebirth. I am relatively new to seasons, a side effect of growing up a few degrees off of the equator, in Papua New Guinea. This is my third year of living in the cycles without a break and I am starting to understand the ...
March 13th, 2009
Mutual assistance enriches even the poor. - Chinese Proverb A couple years ago I finally had a chance to start making kombucha. My sister had gotten a hold of a kombucha mother/starter (known as a SCOBY - Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast) while doing a house call, (she's a nurse). Kombucha ...
