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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 1

inezaponte — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:37:30 +0000

This is Part 1 of a 4 Part series of Chapter Five in New Economy, New Systems published by GoodWorks, an imprint of the Schumacher Institute. You can…

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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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Six Steps back to the Land

inezaponte — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:01:40 +0000

In Britain, over 20% of us are now considered obese, 40 % of our food is imported (with serious implications for food security and sovereignty), youth unemployment is at 14.4% and social…

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Regarding the Land

inezaponte — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:43:52 +0000

“What I stand for is what I stand on.” ― Wendell Berry Several years ago I was invited to work on a ‘Soil and Story’ project for the…

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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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Bridging the divide

inezaponte — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:14:45 +0000

“We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try…

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Drawing circles

inezaponte — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:08:52 +0000

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are things in this world I would like to draw a circle around. Things, or more accurately experiences, that I value so much that I want a special place for them, somewhere safe where they cannot be touched by what we so quaintly refer to as ‘the market’. Experiences such as beauty, love and freedom.

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