by Mark Ray | Jul 16, 2014
Every year, Joel Mackower of GreenBiz performs a truly important and valuable public service by summarizing most of the past years research on how we feel and think about the environment. It’s easy for those of us who passionately follow the issues to lose touch with...
by Mark Ray | Jul 2, 2014
Our elected officials stand guard over the gradual decay and dysfunction of the infrastructure upon which our democracy once depended. We exist in a Democracy that is no longer a democracy. It has sold its soul to the highest bidder. Politicians blatantly ignore the...
by Mark Ray | Jun 24, 2014
So what are Eisenstein’s proposals to take us from the economy of separation to the Sacred Economy of beauty and connectedness? Each gets its own detailed chapter, but they are helpfully summarized in the middle of the book (pp 332-346). Nick Rose reviewing...
by Mark Ray | Jun 14, 2014
Writer Jonathan Talat Phillips interviewed Eisenstein back in 2012 about the ritualistic origins of money, the spirit of the gift, negative interest banking and the alchemical art of making economics sacred. What follows are excerpts of the interview. Can...
by Mark Ray | Jun 4, 2014
Sacred Economics is a hugely ambitious book. It takes aim at the most basic intellectual and moral foundations of our modern industrial societies. Eisenstein, is fully aware that many of his arguments and proposals will seem naïve, utopian and hopelessly idealistic to...
by Mark Ray | May 28, 2014
Honestly, if you asked me to find Latvia on a map, name its capital, answer whether it was or was not part of the EU – I’d have had no idea. Latvia is a Baltic country, bordered by Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Estonia. Norway and Sweden are just across the Baltic...
by Mark Ray | May 19, 2014
Ok, we might not have 54,000 reasons to celebrate, but we didn’t pull that number out of thin air. #DidYouKnow that 54,000 STDs are contracted daily? Yeah, we were shocked by the number too. This statistic and more is why awareness campaigns like National Women’s...
by Mark Ray | May 14, 2014
5 more ways to get the American Dream Back The following is excerpted and adapted from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith. Step 6: Push China to Live Up to Fair Trade Economists estimate that strong action by the United States and other countries to...
by Mark Ray | May 6, 2014
5 ways to get the American Dream Back The following is excerpted and adapted from Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith. Over the past three decades, we have fallen from being the envy of the world, with the most affluent middle class of any place on Earth,...
