Today's reading:
'Land, and its deeply unequal ownership and distribution, is rarely part of this country’s political conversation. But it’s fundamental to many of the systemic problems that we face collectively...'
On Sheffield CLT vya Now Then Magazine
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/is-it…

'If economic thinking... cannot get beyond its vast abstractions... and make contact with the human realities of poverty, frustration, alienation, despair, breakdown, crime, stress, ugliness... then let us scrap economics and start afresh.'
centerforneweconomics.org/newsletters/th…

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's dependence on outside forces over which one cannot have control & therefore increases existential fear. Only by a reduction of needs can one promote a genuine reduction in those tensions which are the ultimate causes of strife & war

'The Song of a Tree' artwork by Martha Shaw on display in our library's Robert Swann Special Collection.

Caption: 'Happy Birthday to Robert Swann - Friend of the Trees (1981).

Read about our co-founder's long pursuit of a just, regenerative economics.
centerforneweconomics.org/envision/legac…

Can modern economies be rerouted for collective flourishing while respecting Earth's limits?
Kate Raworth's 2022 E.F. Schumacher Lecture addresses this timely question.
Watch 'Planetary Economics: New Tools for Local Transformation'
youtube.com/watch?v=aPWOHR…

Today's listen:
'...Each of us is just this person who lives in a certain place and has relationships... *and* we are the manifestation of something vast...'

In this interview, Bryan T. Swimme presents a new view of humanity inspired by 21st c. cosmology.
batgap.com/brian-thomas-s…

“Little things add up and using BerkShares is not an insignificant way of supporting your community.”

Nice coverage of our local currency via Boston.com

In pursuing a just, regenerative future, why 'Small is Beautiful'? Why local? 
“Buddhist Economics” provides a durable answer, located in human scale.
If our economy is to produce goods and services needed for “a becoming existence,” where else to begin? centerforneweconomics.org/newsletters/a-…