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Communities as hothouses for regenerative culture – part 4

inezaponte — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:34:13 +0000

This is Part 4 of a 4 Part series of Chapter Five in New Economy, New Systems published by GoodWorks, an imprint of the Schumacher Institute. Read Part…

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communities as hothouses for regenerative culture – part 3

inezaponte — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:33:44 +0000

Capitalism has created a cycle of scarcity that cripples our capacity for systemic change making. It is imperative that we break this cycle of scarcity in order to support the work we need to do to heal both the exterior damage (on the planet, humans and other species) and the interior damage (historical and current trauma). This will allow us to move from a paradigm of dominance and control to one of partnership and trust, transforming both our concept of ourselves and our ways of working from homo economicus to homo reciprocans.

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Communities as hothouses for regenerative culture – part 2

inezaponte — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:32:00 +0000

Regenerative Space is a key component of any attempts to build Regenerative Culture. In order for us to adequately meet our fundamental needs we need access to the earth and her gifts, either directly by accessing the land or indirectly by accessing the means through which we can exchange our time for the products of the earth.

For the sake of this argument Regenerative Space consists of two elements: Place and Time.

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No more business as usual – Rethinking economic value for a post-Covid world

inezaponte — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 08:42:01 +0000

“No economic interest, under no circumstance, can be above the reverence of life.” – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist, 1932 -2019 A national conversation has begun which is alarming,…

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A licence to print money

inezaponte — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:54:42 +0000

“As people we have a right to make credit and loan money. We mustn’t forget that. We mustn’t leave that to corporations and the state.” Duncan McCann, New…

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Playing for our lives

inezaponte — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:08:39 +0000

One sunny afternoon a few years ago, my then 9-year-old son uttered those words every parent or carer will be familiar with: “Mum, I am bored.” I gave…

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The long remembering

inezaponte — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:35:25 +0000

“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors’ wisdom.” Maya Angelou Last week I was walking on Dartmoor when I stumbled upon…

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From Dismal Science to Language of Beauty

inezaponte — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:47:47 +0000

Towards a New Story of Economics Humans are storytelling beings. In fact one could argue that it is impossible to make sense of the world without story. Storytelling…

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