Evolver Spores: Beyond Money

Daniel Pinchbeck

Tonight, twenty cities will explore workable alternatives to the current economic paradigm at our Evolver Spore, "Beyond Money: What Comes Next? Find your local gathering or start your own (more)

Beyond Life Inc: Talking with Douglas Rushkoff

Peggy Nelson

Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage. (more)

Evolving Toward Local Credits

Thomas H. Greco

The tidal wave of globalization smashes all but the biggest boats. Local communities can regain control over their own welfare by encouraging human solidarity and private, voluntary initiative and creativity. The first step is to organize regional mutual credit clearing associations. (more)

Notes on the Economic Unconscious

Andrew Boyd

In 2004 Billionaires for Bush took to the streets with slogans like "Blood for Oil," "Free the Enron 7," and "Corporations are People, Too." Intentionally or not, we tapped into what you might call the economic unconscious, or the mythic dimension of money. (more)

Program Your Own Money

Douglas Rushkoff

We are watching a financial meltdown, but what's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite. The future actually looks brighter unencumbered by an investment industry that is a drag on business. (more)

Money and the Turning of the Age

Charles Eisenstein

It is time to enter into a new story, and a new kind of money that embodies it. We are in the midst of a transition parallel to an adolescent's transition into adulthood, when physical growth ceases, and vital resources turn inward to foster growth in other realms. (more)

Jesus, Marx, and Spiritual Economics

Jonathan Phillips

The Twelve Tribes were funky Christian Marxists who "worked like capitalists, but divided the money like communists." Although they had each taken a vow of poverty, they somehow managed to have "an abundance of everything."

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Money and the Crisis of Civilization

Charles Eisenstein

In the face of the impending crisis, people ask what they can do to protect themselves. "Buy gold?" "Stockpile canned goods?" I would like to suggest a different kind of question: "What is the most beautiful thing I can do?" This is an updated version of the popular article we first published on October 3, 2008. (more)

More Trust, Better Money

Sergio Lub

Imagine a world where we can choose to live productive, engaging, meaningful lives without having to use money. Today there are "early adaptors" who live modern lives with no money at all. (more)

Reinventing Money: An Eco-systemic Approach (Part 2)

Bernard Lietaer

Complementary currencies provide a systemic solution to the instability of the monetary system. Historical precedent has demonstrated that complementary currency systems have fostered stability not only during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but also during every subsequent business cycle of the economy. (more)

Reinventing Money: An Eco-systemic Approach (Part 1)

Bernard Lietaer

By modeling our financial system on nature's complex networks of interconnectivity, we can escape global financial meltdown by developing diverse complementary currencies and mutual credit systems. (more)

Community as Financial Safe Haven in Troubled Times

Catherine Austin Fitts

Reduced confidence in the public stock market has fostered opportunities to invest in our neighbors and ourselves. These opportunities will continue to grow in 2009 and for the foreseeable future. (more)

Toward a New Economic Order

Thomas H. Greco

Is the present financial crisis due to a system out of control and failing, or to a system that is being demolished to further enhance the power and wealth of a few? (more)