Like many of you I’ve been an activist a long time. It’s really not hard to see the system is corrupt, so the hard part’s really been not going insane being surrounded by people who don’t want to do a damn thing to change anything for the...
This article was originally published on www.thomaspichon.com On the bus to Kashmir, Ruth and I met Henry, a young and smart Australian guy who’s going to give a hand on an interesting project dealing with localized #economics in Northern India. He’ll volunteer at an...
The world looks for solutions to its current crisis, but in the discussions I observe we rarely put into question what I consider to be the common denominator to all these issues: money.The form of money we mostly have today is issued by a debt system that all...
Recently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member States to recommit to “collective security” and human rights. He claimed the UN prevented another war but those who suffered from the lethal consequences of the Cold War or the current violence and loss of human...
This essay was a talk given by the author at the Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland February 27 – March 1, 2015. Written by: Bayo Akomolafe (PhD). Coordinator, International Alliance for Localization This past year, on an October afternoon, we carefully...
