Now that Burning Man's ill-conceived ticket lottery has ended and the dust storms of indignation have settled, I would like to offer my observations on how this ticketing system was doomed from its very inception, and suggest how it might be improved in the future. (more)

Suburbia has been the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We invested our wealth and much of our national identity in a living arrangement that has no future, and now the psychology of previous investment will not allow us to think about substantially changing it. (more)

Now that I have entered the realm of speculation, I would like to describe a few more aspects of sacred economy that I believe will unfold over the next two centuries. This book has described developments that we can create in the next twenty years, and in some cases the next five. What about the next two hundred years? (more)

What would it take to lift the veil on what's really going on in our world?   The movie THRIVE addresses that question by following the money upstream -- uncovering how the global consolidation of power effects nearly every aspect of our lives. On Monday, January 30th, you can join the discussion in a real-time, initimate and interactive Evolver Intensive video salon hosted by author and Evolver co-founder Daniel Pinchbeck, with Foster Gamble, director of THRIVE. [Video] (more)

Most of this book has been about money, which is the usual subject of “economics” today. On a deeper level, though, economics should be about things, specifically the things that human beings create, why they create them, who gets to use them, and how they circulate. (more)

Despite being able to pay for everything we need, we do not feel like all our needs have actually been met. We feel empty, hungry. Perhaps the things we need the most are absent from the products of mass production, cannot be quantified or commoditized, and are therefore inherently outside the money realm.  (more)

Love's evolution is my resolution, my revolution, my solution. The time is now. 2012 is upon us. The beginning is here! It's time to come to our senses, and wake up! Listen -- can you hear the alarm bells ringing? Can you hear the cries of Mother Earth? (more)

How can we generate public wisdom right at the grassroots, with people creating that capacity in their communities whenever they want to? Can we get at least 80% of the quality of a professionally organized face-to-face citizen deliberative council with far less expense and effort -- perhaps with smart use of the Internet? (more)

The occupations have served an important purpose, but the time has come to direct the energy they have awakened toward tangible goals. For too long, the left has mortgaged its soul to a dispirited, defeated version of the practical. Society and the planet are in such a strait that the old practical isn't enough. We need to think big -- and then be practical. (more)

The revolution in decision-making that citizen deliberative councils offer us is of comparable magnitude to the revolution in decision-making created centuries ago by the idea of majority vote. It can be applied virtually anywhere, and it could make all the difference in the world. (more)

As you step into a gift mentality, the first steps will be small ones. Perhaps if you run a business, you will convert a small part of it to a gift model. Whatever steps you take, know that you are preparing for the economy of the future. (more)

Etymologically speaking, to invest means to clothe, as in to take naked money and put it into new vestments, something material, something real in the physical or social realm. Money is naked human potential -- creative energy that has not yet been "clothed" with material or social constructions. Right investment is to array money in sacred vestments. (more)

These personal accounts capture life at Zuccotti Park, as experienced by a young Civil Rights attorney and mother who arrived at the Occupy Wall Street protests a skeptic, but who was quickly pulled in by the excitement of witnessing a new movement being birthed. (more)

Accumulation adds some measure to our security, but not for long. The mentality of accumulation is coincident with the ascent of separation, and it is ending in tandem with the Age of Separation. Accumulation makes no sense for the expanded self of the gift economy. (more)