Unexpected Community

  Most of us live starved for a sense of community that we seem to be unable or unwilling to create in our busy, self-centered lives. A strong sense of family is more than most Americans can hope for. While some of us find community at work, through religion,...

Democracy is alive and well in Vermont

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...

Sacred Economics Part 3: The Roadmap to a Sacred Economics

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...

Sacred Economics: An Interview with Eisenstein: Part 2

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...

Sacred Economics Part 1

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...

54,000 Reasons to Celebrate NWHW!

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...

Who Stole The American Dream Part III

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...