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Living the Gift: A Conversation with Charles Eisenstein

2012-10-10T19:06:52.714Z

Charles Eisenstein is the author of Sacred Economics.

"Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being."

I think I am most moved by Charles' capacity to connect with the truth of his heart and to speak that eloquently. Especially with the gift economy he's onto something. Something that really excites me! It excites me because the money conversation has the potential to profoundly transform us.

I met Charles at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Berkeley in March 2012. He graciously accepted my wish to interview him and answered my questions. As usual Charles was inspiring with his honesty, humility and compassion.

Please visit http://charleseisenstein.net/ and http://sacred-economics.com/ for more depth of Charles' work.
For more stories from a brave new world, I hope you stop by www.thebravenewworld.org

Living in the Gift

2011-11-03T18:35:20.383Z

A talk by Charles Eisenstein sponsored by the Santa Fe Time Bank, with introduction by Stella Osorojos.

16 communal decisions that members elected (1980) grameen bank around

2008-09-28T18:07:30.741Z

THese days microcredit has become so popular with almost every big bank jumping in saying that it can temporarily beat the lending rates. This misses the point. First real microcredit banks are community banks owned by the members- that means all the surplus gets reinvested in community sustainability. As Grameen formed around 1980 its members held meetings that identified what their wish was to sustain end of pverty at community levels and ensure their children were removed from poverty. These 16 decisions remind us how hard the original challenge was. They still define the culture of Grameen today. For example, the head of Grameen America was originally interested in benchmarks for sustaining vilage helath systems. He noted a while ago that where vilages sustauned surprisingly good health they also had microcredit banks. Dr Yunus and the four founding members have given the world a great gift in ooen sourcing microcredit and potentially micro social business of every need releavnt to the millennial goals. I ask that the least that peacebuilders do is know how to differentiate between true microcredit and imitators who wish to profit from the poor. To do this consider joining http://www.egroups.com/group/helpmicrocredit

the entrpreneur who banked peace & economics as one and same whole truth

2008-09-27T22:30:27.825Z

ONCE IN A GENERATION -impossible becomes possible if right action people place tme

This is one of 25 good news messages Dr Yunus and his 100000 micro-bankers in Bangladesh have help us make - now we want to www share them with 10000 youth http://yunus10000.com - the good thing about the search for actionable good news is that DR Yunus will love to hear of better news than the first 25 invites he's asking the world of youth to dialogue round -do you know some clusters of youth who would want free copies of the dvd - chris macrae usa tel 301 881 1655