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| An Indigenous Perspective Conversation with Puanani Burgess |
| The World We Want Consumer Cooperatives Management Association Portland, June 2008 |
| Smart Security & the End of War |
| Finding Our Power in the Great Turning Joanna Macy and David Korten in a public conversation |
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Seattle Green Festival 2008
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| Only One Reason to Grant a Corporate Charter |
| Living Wealth: Better Than Money |
This site is my weblog or blog for sharing my current thoughts and reflections, as well as information on my schedule, current publications, and the personal history that informs my particular point of view. It is a companion to the Great Turning website, which provides an introduction to the Great Turning framework, resources for discussion, and stories of how others are using and contributing to these resources to advance a rapidly expanding national and global conversation on the work of creating a world that works for all.
Author Information
You can find all the usual author information on this website, including my calendar of speaking events, books currently in print, video links, recent articles and talks, biographical information, and organizational affiliations. My base organization is the People-Centered Development Forum, which is the legal home of the Great Turning Initiative. Personal Journey tells the story of the intellectual journey that informs my current work as author, lecturer, and engaged citizen.
Ideas
The most complete presentation of my current framework for understanding the epic choice we humans now face is my most recent book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. The web page The Great Turning: Epic Passage summarizes the arguments, as does my article in the Summer 2006 issue of YES! magazine. Story Power sets forth the proposition that the key to changing the human course is to change the stories that frame the dominant culture. This idea is at the core of change strategy underlying my current work.
If you are interested in a particular term take a look in the Glossary where you will find my decoding of key Empire words and some of the contributions of the Great Turning Initiative to developing a vocabulary for those who are charting a human course to a world that works for all. I regret that I cannot respond to individual questions, but you may find answers to your question in “Frequently Asked Questions”
Tools
If you are looking for tools to organize a Great Turning event, facilitate a Great Turning discussion or workshop , or want to know what others are doing to spread the Great Turning message you will likely find what you are looking for on the Great Turning website. For a broad range of tools and resources for getting involved in most any aspect of living Earth Community into being see the YES! magazine Action Resource Center.
Using This Site
This site is under continuing development. Use the syndication button on the left sidebar to receive notices when I post new content.
Most pages on this site invite your substantive comments. All constructive points of view are welcome. Spam and abusive comments will be removed. The site requires registration to comment solely to avoid abuse by automated spammers. Unless you choose to sign up for our periodic Great Turning Newsletter, your information will not be used for any purpose other than your access to this site and in no event will your e-mail address be shared without your express permission.
I hope you will find ideas and content on this website useful in advancing your work and understanding. Content that is not specifically attributed to someone else, is probably mine and you have my permission to reproduce and share it with proper attribution as you like. I believe that ideas are the common heritage of the species and should be freely shared in the ongoing process of deepening our collective knowledge and capacity as a species. My work builds on the work of countless others, as I hope your work may build on mine.
My thanks to Sam Rose and socialsynergyweb.com for technical support in creating and maintaining this website.
Hello
Hello David Korten,
My name is andrew lord. I wrote a song for the great turning, as well as a recorded a video message to you, explaining my story about the biomimetics of the great turning, a story I call the Science of Proactive Peace Production. I hope you can find the time to watch. You can find both the song and your message on youtube. The message is called dear david korten, and the song is called the great turning.
Have a beautiful day!
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speaking fee and visit to Santa Cruz
Dear David
I work for the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz California, a local peace and justice center. We frequetly bring in speakers. Could you give me an estimate of your speaking fee. I notice you will be in the Bay Area from time to time and maybe 2009 would be a good time for you to visit. I look forward to your reply.
Sincerely,
Barbara Hayes
barbara@greybird.com
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-423-1626
speaking fee and visit to Santa Cruz
Hello Barbara,
I coordinate David's calendar and speaking engagements, and would be happy provide information. I will contact you shortly.
Kat
The relationship of equity to sustainability
David K. - It was a true pleasure to have met you at the BALLE conference in Boston last month. I appreciate that we had a chance to talk for a bit and I have continued to wrestle with the ideas we discussed. From our discussion, I followed your suggestion that I read "The Great Turning." I am about half-way through and I have a question for you regarding the relationship between equity and sustainability.
In TGT, you write near the end of Chapter 3, ". . . equity becomes an essential condition of a healthy, sustainable society in a full world . . ." I agree intuitively (and on principle) to that statement. But I am hoping you can refer me to some materials that flesh out the logic that leads one to our shared conclusion. I am also interested in the extent to which that statement applies to one or both of the following: that equity is a condition needed to make the Great Turning itself, and/or if equity is a condition that, as an outcome, will inform us that Great Turning efforts are succeeding.
And finally, if we take equity to mean "economic equity," I am also curious to know your opinion on the extent to which the purpose of seeking equity is to ensure, as you write on the same page, that "all persons have an adequate and meaningful means of making a living for themselves and their families," and/or that through the achievement of equity (however measured/defined), there will simply be less of a chance for too much wealth to be under the control of too few.
Thanks in advance for your time and any documents you may send me in responding to my questions.
All the best to you,
-- Jonathan Kevles
input for new economic systems
Michael Kinsley has posted a piece on the Huffington Post (6/26/08) asking for input and new ideas for new economic systems. Wanted to inform you in case you're interested. His article/blog provides details.
E
Engaging web and net technologies - in the face of corporates
Dear David
I have long admired you and your work that relates so fundamentally to the Forum for Stable Currencies that I've been organising at the House of Lords in London.
Once upon a time, I even put one of your fundamental articles "The ABC of Financial Capitalism" on my old website www.monies.cc
http://www.monies.cc/forum/actions/submission/the_abc.htm
As I'm gathering blog speed, I've also learned to edit Wikipedia pages and am now in conversation with an editor of "Wikisource" who needs reassurance that any documents are free of copyright restrictions.
Can you possibly let me have an email to the effect that you're ok with my efforts to publicise our thinking and analysis?
With many thanks in advance,
yours in the spirit of citizen engagement,
Sabine
Organiser, Forum for Stable Currencies
http://forumnews.wordpress.com
Copyright restrictions
Sabine: Thanks for your note. You can assure your editor that nothing on this site has copyright restrictions unless specifically noted.
David Korten