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April 16, 2017

Paul Glover; From the Middle Class to the Mutual Class

By Rob Kall

Paul Glover is a lifelong visionary progressive activist who has successfully started some incredible bottom up, Mutual Society projects, such as Ithaca Hours

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Paul Glover is the founder of the Ithaca Hours , one of the first local currency systems.[1] [2] He is also the founder of the Philadelphia Orchard Project,[3]Citizen Planners of Los Angeles,[4]the Ithaca Health Alliance,[5]and several other organizations.

He is author of six books on community economic development,[6]a former professor of urban studies at Temple University[7], currently teaching Ecological Economics[8] at Philadelphia University.

He consults as Greenplanners[9]and speaks on community economic development.[10]

And he ran, in in 2014, as the Green Party candidate for the governor of Pennsylvania

You can download the audio or view the video below.

Notes:

Holistic system economics: google it, check youtube

Green Economy

The real news is there are millions of people and hundreds of thousands of organization bringing social and ecological justice.

Equitable development tool kit.

I see holes in the social fabric where we need more control.

My idea of leadership is knowing when to follow.

We need decentralization of domination by industrial entities

How do we take back the power?

Change attitudes to join the mutual class (from consumer, thing ownership culture to community oriented.)

A lot of people are bailing out from the middle class, quitting high paying Wall Street jobs to become farmers.

To downsize or "rightsize" by reconnecting so we get off the treadmills and create safety nets.

We need to create safety nets and move away from centralization.

Rob: What does that look like? How can people get involved with this?

Rob: What do you mean, "Americans take control of money."

In depth discussion of Ithaca Hours, a form of local currency based on work hours. Wrote book about it--Hometown Money

Ithaca Hours had 500 members and thousands of individuals involved, including doctors, masseuses, plumbers"

Rob: How do libertarians feel about this?

It appealed to people across the political spectrum.

Over time it was replaced by Ithacash.com

Phila. Art cash.

Role of art in mutual society

Paul's alternative STEM (usually science tech, engineering, math) Soil, turf, earth, mulch


Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


Rob Kall Wikipedia Page


Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel


Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel


Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.


Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.


To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.


For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.


Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..


To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.


Follow Rob on Twitter & Facebook.


His quotes are here

Rob's articles express his personal opinion, not the opinion of this website.


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