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David Korten is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network.
This article draws from his newly released book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. Go to www.yesmagazine.org/greatturning for book excerpts, related articles, David's talks, and resources for action.
Friday, July 22, 2011 How the Left and Right Can Unite (5 comments)
If we'd stop tearing each other apart, we might see an opportunity to win back our democracy from the rich and powerful.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 But What About My 401 K? (2 comments)
Can anyone survive in this world without basic financial services?
Is the ONLY real purpose of mortgages to enrich bankers?
Is insurance a scam to loot the gullible?
Is the possibility of retirement a sick joke?
Saturday, April 2, 2011 The End of Empire (5 comments)
Wall Street's abuse of power has so eroded the economic, social, and environmental foundations of its own existence that its fate is sealed. Ours need not be. The choice is ours.
Thursday, January 20, 2011 Microcredit: --The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unraveling the confusion behind microcredit: how some models help alleviate poverty, while others exploit the poor to make the rich richer.
For more than twenty years, microcredit has been widely heralded as the remedy for world poverty. Recent news stories, however, have sullied microcredit's glowing reputation with reports on scandals, exorbitant compensation to managers, skyrocketing interest rates, & aggressive marketing.
Friday, January 7, 2011 The New Economy; The Missing Vision (3 comments)
This is the first of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. --DK
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You're Making a Difference (3 comments)
David Korten's newly revised & expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, outlines an agenda to create a new kind of economy: locally-based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all.
In this special pre-publication excerpt Korten explains how to tell if your actions are helping to build the new economy that "must be lived into being from the bottom up
Friday, February 12, 2010 The New Economy Challenge: Implications for Higher Education (1 comments)
A new economy requires a new approach to education. David Korten discusses how we can rethink our goals, reskill ourselves, and teach Spaceship Management 101.
On January 29, 2010, David Korten addressed the Education for Sustainable Development Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. His remarks follow.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 Who Really Crashed the Economy? (14 comments)
With Van Jones as a surrogate for Obama, the right wing slime machine takes down a good man. Is Wall Street or muck-meister Beck the real source of the decay eating away at America?
Monday, January 19, 2009 The Speech President Obama Should Deliver"¦ But Won't (1 comments)
David Korten's new book Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth outlines an agenda to bring into being a new economy-locally based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all, not simply increasing profits.
In this special pre-publication excerpt, Korten summarizes his version of the economic address to the nation he wishes Barack Obama were able to deliver.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Main Street Before Wall Street (6 comments)
Why spend public money to prop up the predatory system on Wall Street? How about making whole the pensioners, home owners, and credit card holders the system victimized?
Monday, August 14, 2006 The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (3 comments)
By what name will future generations know our time?
Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity ...? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning...
