The New Economy Starts Now
by Sarah van Gelder, Editor Yes Magazine
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As the financial system continues to crumble, a new economy is taking form. It’s an economy that recognizes that the only thing too big to fail is the Earth itself. It is designed to build sustainable wealth in communities and ecosystems, and it’s our best chance to improve prospects for future generations, instead of leaving them with ever-growing debt, conflict, and environmental destruction.
Our Foot Print
Politicians, pundits, and financiers defend deepening our national debt to bail out the institutions of a failed Wall Street system. But this system, built on speculation and the rule of money, is undermining the health of the planet and the well-being of all but the wealthiest few. It’s time to let it go. Read the rest of this article.
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New Ways to Do Finance: Small Banks, Radical Vision, Put your money where your Life is. Community Investment
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Busted: 9 Ecomonic Myths: What the old economy didn’t do for us—and what a sustainable economy could do.
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