http://www.cchange.net Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sea Change Radio covers the transformations to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Change is accelerating in positive and negative directions: the clock is ticking in the race to see which will tip first—the problems or the solutions. Join Sea Change's Host, Alex Wise, as he provides in-depth analysis to help our audience understand possible remedies and potential pitfalls. Sea Change interviews sustainability experts including Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Lester Brown, and many others. Sea Change airs on over 30 radio stations around the country. Alex Wise clean Alex Wise awise@cchange.net awise@cchange.net (Alex Wise) 2007-2011 Making Connections for Sustainability Sustainability, Climate Change, Human Rights, Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Accountability, Stakeholders, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy, Green Jobs, Wealth Divide http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/SeaChangeRadioTAG_square144_sm.jpg http://www.cchange.net Weekly http://www.cchange.net/2009/10/28/back-to-the-future-pasture-local-wheat-and-water-power/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/10/28/back-to-the-future-pasture-local-wheat-and-water-power/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:29:16 +0000 Francesca Rheannon http://www.cchange.net/?p=2043 http://www.cchange.net/2009/10/28/back-to-the-future-pasture-local-wheat-and-water-power/feed/ 1 agribusiness,Climate Change,mass humanities,Sustainable Agriculture Massachusetts has a deep agricultural history stretching back before the days of chemical-based industrial agribusiness. How are farmers using older methods to make the transition to more sustainable agriculture? Massachusetts has a deep agricultural history stretching back before the days of chemical-based industrial agribusiness. How are farmers using older methods to make the transition to more sustainable agriculture?  Sea Change Co-Host Francesca Rheannon (http://www.cchange.net/about/francesca-rheannon/) goes to the Colrain Dairy (http://westcountyhilltowns.com/site/backend05/xmlold/SFI60.hl.dairy.xml) to talk with Larry Shearer about his low-impact, pasture-based method of organic dairying.  She then talks with Cheryl Maffei of The Hungry Ghost Bakery’s Little Red Hen (http://www.hungryghostbread.com/pages/the-little-red-hen-restoring-wheat-in-the-pioneer-valley.php) local wheat-growing project . Finally, she interviews historian Dan Bennett (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/23/travel/0123-havens_10.html) about the use of water to power grist and sawmills in the smaller communities of the Connecticut River Valley. Today, we begin a six-part series called Back to the Future. It explores what older ways of living and producing can teach us about adapting to a future where we will have to get by with less -- much less -- use of fossil fuels. We’re not talking about going back to the stone age or getting rid of innovation. But rather, what can we learn from the old to create new ways of responding to the challenges of climate change and peak oil? Both crises are driving the need to find low-carbon ways of growing our food, getting around, building our homes, and producing other goods and services. So the stakes are high, but so are the benefits: not just saving our planet for ourselves and our kids, but also more resilient local economies, more satisfying connections with our neighbors, and a higher quality of life. In this series, we’ll look at food, transportation, housing, energy, and manufacturing -- what we can learn from the past to guide our future. Back to the Future will air monthly on Sea Change Radio. This program series is funded in part by Mass Humanities (http://www.masshumanities.org). We start out with the first of two episodes about food. We’ll hear from a farmer, a baker, and a historian helping to restore old mills in Leverett, MA -- mills that in their time ground grain and sawed logs for, among other things, barns and farmhouses. Larry Shearer is a small-scale dairy farmer in Colrain, MA. His farm spreads over a rocky hill with enough pasture to keep about fifty cows. Although he’s past retirement age (he’s in his late seventies), Shearer is still actively involved in running the farm with his two sons. The Colrain Dairy has been certified organic since 2007, but long before that Larry Shearer decided to do dairying in the old style: by pasturing his cows instead of feeding them grain, like most modern dairy farmers do. He hasn’t regretted the decision, finding that his cows are healthier, his costs and energy use are down, and he has more leisure time to spend with his family. And he makes a decent living. He says it’s all about “quality of life” -- for his family and his cows. The CT River Valley used to be the breadbasket of the nation, back in colonial times. Hardy wheat varieties that could withstand the winters, and the wet of the northeast, were grown around here. Cheryl Maffei is co-owner of Hungry Ghost Bakery (http://hungryghostbread.com/) in Northampton, Massachusetts. She runs an innovative project that’s enlisting local residents in growing New England-friendly wheat varieties in their backyard gardens. It’s called Little Red Hen. Dr. Daniel Bennet is a former academic, food coop founder and local historian in North Leverett, MA. He’s been working to help restore the old sawmill on the Saw Mill River in his home town and preserve the knowledge of older residents who remember how to run it. Other Links * David Fisher Natural Roots Farm (http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farm.php?farm=1460) * Butterworks Farm, Vermont (http://butterworksfarm.com/) Francesca Rheannon clean 28:47 http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/09/a-summer-of-sea-change-radio/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/09/a-summer-of-sea-change-radio/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:42:47 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=1928 http://www.cchange.net/2009/09/09/a-summer-of-sea-change-radio/feed/ 0 http://www.cchange.net/2009/06/17/banking-futures-making-money-sustainable/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/06/17/banking-futures-making-money-sustainable/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:51:18 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=980 http://www.cchange.net/2009/06/17/banking-futures-making-money-sustainable/feed/ 0 Alternative Economic Models,Climate Change,Community Economic Engagement,doug rushkoff,international finance corporation,Life Inc,Local Currency,Local Living Economies,Lyle Estill,Peter Blom,Renewable Energy,Sustainable Agriculture Banks are increasingly viewed as a bane to a healthy economy.  But done right, banks can play a key role in the shift to sustainability.  Today, Sea Change presents three perspectives on futures for banking.  Peter Blom, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/PeterBlom-100x150.gif)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/DougRushkoff-150x150.jpg) Banks are increasingly viewed as a bane to a healthy economy.  But done right, banks can play a key role in the shift to sustainability.  Today, Sea Change presents three perspectives on futures for banking.  Peter Blom, CEO of Triodos Bank (http://www.triodos.com/) in the Netherlands, proposes a shift in the mission of banks, from maximizing profit to maximizing sustainability.  Doug Rushkoff (http://rushkoff.com/), author of (http://lifeincorporated.net/), discusses how a surplus of debt that banks needed to sell triggered the financial meltdown.  (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/LyleEstill.jpg)And Lyle Estill (http://lyleestill.com/blog/?page_id=4) describes the role a chapter in his book (http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3993) played in a local currency in North Carolina, The Plenty, being carried by a local bank. Triodos Bank was just named Sustainable Bank of the Year (http://www.triodos.com/com/whats_new/latest_news/press_releases/triodos_most_sustainable_bank) in an award (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1dafe8c-51a4-11de-b986-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=590f3c26-4564-11da-981b-00000e2511c8.html) from the Financial Times and International Finance Corporation (http://www.ifc.org/).  Last year, Triodos CEO Peter Blom was knighted into the Order of Orange-Nassau (http://www.triodos.com/com/whats_new/latest_news/press_releases/603833) for pioneering sustainable saving and investment schemes.  At the recent Summit on the Future of the Corporation (http://www.summit2020.org/), Blom facilitated a World Cafe (http://www.theworldcafe.com/) session where Francesca recorded his comments on the changes necessary to achieve sustainability -- from the individual to the systemic level. Doug Rushkoff discusses the instrumental role banks played in the current financial crisis.  His new book ,LIFE INC, is about how corporatization is holding our lives as captives, all the way down to our individual identity.  In the book, Rushkoff presents the counter-intuitive notion that a surplus of money caused our collective financial crisis. This is an excerpt from a longer interview he gave Francesca and Bill. Finally, we end with a story of hope: the role banks can play in supporting local currency (http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm), and the revitalization of regional economies.  Lyle Estill's story of how a chapter in his book, SMALL IS POSSIBLE, helped inspire a local bank to back a local currency in North Carolina serves as a launching pad for Estill to discuss the larger context of how local economies can help solve our concurrent crises around climate change, resource depletion. This segment is excerpted from a much longer interview he gave Francesca, which we'll air later in the season. Bill Baue clean 29:11 http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:31:09 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=779 http://www.cchange.net/2009/04/15/wangari-maathai-peace-and-environmental-justice-taking-root/feed/ 1 Alan Dater,Alternative Economic Models,Climate Change,Community Economic Engagement,Green Jobs,Green Living,lisa merton,Local Living Economies,marlboro college graduate school,nobel peace prize,Renewable Energy,Social Entrepreneurs Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai about the links between environmental justice, women's empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate Scho... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lisamertonalandater-150x133.jpg) (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wangarimaathaifrancescabill21-150x130.jpg)Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue of Sea Change host an intimate chat with Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2004/press.html) about the links between environmental justice, women's empowerment, democratic governance, and sustainability at the Marlboro College Graduate School (http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu/), where Baue teaches.  Maathai is touring (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/events.php) the US promoting her new book, (http://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Africa-Wangari-Maathai/dp/0307377407), as well as the documentary, TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (http://takingrootfilm.com/index.htm).  In the second half of the show, Rheannon and Baue speak with the filmmakers, Alan Dater and Lisa Merton (http://takingrootfilm.com/production-team.htm) of Marlboro Productions (http://www.marlboroproductions.com/index.html). In her native Kenya, Wangari Maathai saw that deforestation was devastating the environment. Good arable land was eroding, streams were getting polluted or drying up and the women had to go further to find ever-scarcer firewood. So in 1977, she founded the grassroots Green Belt Movement (http://greenbeltmovement.org/index.php). Over the past 32 years, it's planted 35 million trees, bringing back whole ecosystems with it and revitalizing villages. The program has been carried out mainly by women in those villages. By hiring them to plant the trees, it gave them the means to care for their children and protect their environment. The corrupt regime of Daniel Arap Moi sought to stop her, arresting her numerous times and even jailing her. In 1991 she was beaten while planting trees on public lands and suffered a head injury. But she fought on and earned world acclaim for her actions and her courage. In 2004 Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” She's in the US to promote her new book, CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA and a new film about her, TAKING ROOT, which aired recently on the PBS program, Independent Lens (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingroot/index.html). Taking a break from her tour of major cities, Wangari Maathai visited the filmmakers near their home in Vermont for a public talk.  Sea Change Co-Hosts Francesca Rheannon and Bill Baue  sat down for an intimate chat with Wangari Maathai at the Marlboro College Graduate School, where Baue teaches. The story of Wangari Maathai, and the Green Belt Movement, is captured vividly in the documentary, TAKING ROOT.  The film won a bunch of awards in 2008.  Rheannon and Baue spoke with filmmakers Alan Dater and Lisa Merton of Marlboro Productions from their home studios.  The interview started with the question, what inspired them to tell the story of Wangari Maathai's vision in film? Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/25/seeding-the-solidarity-economy/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/25/seeding-the-solidarity-economy/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:03:49 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=729 http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/25/seeding-the-solidarity-economy/feed/ 0 Alternative Economic Models,center for popular economics,chilo villarreal,Climate Change,Community Economic Engagement,emily kawano,Fair Trade,forum on solidarity economy,Green Jobs,Green Living,human rights,Labor Rights The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) recently hosted the first Forum on the Solidarity Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- home of Sea Change Radio.  CPE Executive Director Emily Kawano explains the theory and practice behind the s... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/solidarityeconomy.gif)The Center for Popular Economics (http://www.populareconomics.org/) (CPE) recently hosted the first Forum on the Solidarity Economy (http://www.populareconomics.org/ussen/node/99) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- home of Sea Change Radio.  CPE Executive Director Emily Kawano (http://www.populareconomics.org/bios/kawano_e.htm) explains the theory and practice behind the solidarity economy, and discusses strategies and next steps for the US Solidarity Economy Network (http://www.populareconomics.org/ussen/) in cultivating a socially and environmentally sustainable economy.  And Chilo Villarreal (http://www.ruralco.org/aboutus/board.html) of the Coalición Rural (http://www.ruralco.org/index.html) in Mexico illustrates solidarity economy concepts through story.   Finally, the News Analysis examines the business of water. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/emilykawano.jpg)As our existing economy collapses under the weight of its own unsustainable growth, what economic forms will replace this failed system?  Policymakers bend over backwards to prop up a the broken status quo, while idealists around the world envision more equitable and ecological alternatives.  The solidarity economy -- that's one such vision.  Last week, these visionaries traveled from around the world to the Forum on the Solidarity Economy here at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, hosted by the Center for Popular Economics.  This week, after the dust had settled, Center for Popular Economics Executive Director Emily Kawano visited us in the WMUA studios.  Sea Change Host Bill Baue opened the conversation by asking Emily, what is a solidarity economy, and what role can it play in helping fix the current economic breakdown? Kawano identifies three priorities for advancing the solidarity economy by focusing on leverage points where the current economic system is failing or has gaps: housing, finance, and cooperatives. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/chilovillarreal.tiff)The colorful wrap draped across her back immediately caught the eye of Sea Change Host Bill Baue at the Forum on the Solidarity Economy.  When he saw her later in an empty classroom, he jumped at the chance for an interview.  She introduced herself as Altagracia Villarreal -- but everybody knows her as Chilo.  Since 1995, she's served on the board of the Coalicion Rural, a collaboration between 17 organization in Mexico.  Its partner in the US, the Rural Coalition, is made up of 70 to 80 organizations throughout the country.  He opened by asking Chilo how she defines solidarity economy, and later asked Chilo to describe a specific example that illustrates the solidarity economy in action, and she answered in both Spanish and English.  You'll hear her Spanish underneath her English response. Bill Baue clean 29:30 http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/18/gaviotas-a-village-to-reinvent-the-world/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/18/gaviotas-a-village-to-reinvent-the-world/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:48:53 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=683 http://www.cchange.net/2009/03/18/gaviotas-a-village-to-reinvent-the-world/feed/ 0 Alan Weisman,Alternative Economic Models,Chelsea Green Publishing,Clean Tech,Climate Change,Gaviotas,Green Building,Green Living,Local Living Economies,Renewable Energy,Robert Weissman,Sustainable Agriculture Journalist Alan Weisman talks about his book , reissued late last year by Chelsea Green Publishing on the 10th anniversary of its first edition.  And in the News Analysis, Rob Weissman of Wall Street Watch talks about its new report, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/alanweisman-150x150.jpg) Journalist Alan Weisman (http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/alan_weisman/) talks about his book , reissued late last year by Chelsea Green Publishing (http://www.chelseagreen.com/) on the 10th anniversary of its first edition.  And in the News Analysis, Rob Weissman (http://www.cptech.org/staff/rob.html) of Wall Street Watch (http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/) talks about its new report, Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America (http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/soldoutreport.htm). And support Sea Change in the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Changing Climate Change Contest by clicking here (http://www.justmeans.com/showideadetails?ideaid=8382&isread=y).  Finally, Sea Change is on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cchange) -- we'll tweet you if you tweet us. Is it possible to create a sustainable community in the harsh environment of a treeless savannah?  Yes, if you use affordable, small scale technology that respects people and the planet.  That's what the villagers of Gaviotas, an "unintentional" community in the largely uninhabited eastern part of Colombia, say.  Journalist Alan Weisman chronicled the making of this sustainable community in his book, GAVIOTAS. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/see-saw-150x150.jpg)The interview begins with Weisman talking about what that community looks like today.  He talks about innovative uses of energy there -- including kid power: a see-saw doubles as a water pump. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hospital-150x150.jpg)In the midst of a country plagued by violence, no one has been killed in Gaviotas in the 40 years since its founding. One remarkable reason is the hospital Gaviotas built that treats all comers -- whether impoverished farmers, indigenous people from the area, or even rebels and paramilitaries. The hospital was designed with ideas from residents, Indians from surrounding areas, and a young engineer from one of Colombia's top universities, Esperanza Connell. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/solar-150x150.jpg)But Gaviotas hasn't kept it's innovations to itself. It's teamed up with poor urban communities in Colombia to bring small, appropriate technology that leaves a light footprint on the planet.  For example, solar collectors. Bill Baue clean 29:28 http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/18/making-the-case-for-a-green-stimulus/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/18/making-the-case-for-a-green-stimulus/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:15:23 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=566 http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/18/making-the-case-for-a-green-stimulus/feed/ 0 Clean Tech,Climate Change,EPA,global warming,Green Building,Green Jobs,Green Living,nicholas stern,Renewable Energy,stimulus,Sustainable Agriculture,Sustainable Innovation Alex Bowen, a Principal Research Fellow at The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of the London School of Economics, discusses An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus, a report he co-authored with Lord Nicholas Stern, (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/alexbowen.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/greenstimulus.jpg)Alex Bowen, a Principal Research Fellow at The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/granthamInstitute/Default.htm) of the London School of Economics, discusses An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/granthamInstitute/publications/An%20outline%20of%20the%20case%20for%20a%20'green'%20stimulus.pdf), a report he co-authored with Lord Nicholas Stern, the man behind the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/stern.htm).   And in the ViewPoint, Donald Bartlett of the investigative journalism team Bartlett and Steele (http://barlettandsteele.com/index.php) advances the idea of a Federal Reserve for health care (http://barlettandsteele.com/blog/?p=10). President Obama signed a $787 billion dollar stimulus package into law this week --and many say it's good news for the green industry (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/obama-signs-stimulus-packed-with-clean-energy-provisions/). Obama declared it would "double the amount of renewable energy produced over the next three years" and help transform the way we use energy. That's all to the good. But is it enough? Forty percent of the package is in the form of tax cuts, which most economists think are much worse at stimulating economic activity than spending (http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/02/06/afx6019551.html). Mass transit supporters were discouraged by the small portion given over to light rail. (Although there was a last minute infusion for high speed rail (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18924.html).) Throwing a lot of money at roads and bridges instead of public transportation doesn't exactly help the climate. We've talked a lot on this show about how going green is good for the economy, too. But when the economy is in free fall, many argue the priority is a stimulus that is "timely and targeted"-- and that means getting the political will behind quick passage with the sweetener of tax cuts and funds for "shovel ready" projects like repairing roads and bridges. But a new report says we can get the stimulus right and green. "An outline of the case for a 'green' stimulus" is jointly out from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (http://www.cccep.ac.uk/Default.htm). They're both connected to the London School of Economics. Sea Change Radio Co-Host Francesca Rheannon spoke with the report's lead author, Alex Bowen. Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/04/slow-money-compost-growing-new-economy/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/04/slow-money-compost-growing-new-economy/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:32 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=514 http://www.cchange.net/2009/02/04/slow-money-compost-growing-new-economy/feed/ 2 Alternative Economic Models,Climate Change,Community Economic Engagement,Fair Trade,Green Living,jessie smith noyes foundation,katy lederer,Local Living Economies,steve viederman,Sustainable Agriculture,Sustainable Business,Sustainable Innovation Today we measure the speed of money.  Woody Tasch discusses his book, .  And Katy Lederer transforms her experience working in the fast money culture of Wall Street into poetry in the book , . - We're all reeling from the roller coaster-ride of fast m... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/woodytasch-150x150.jpg)Today we measure the speed of money.  Woody Tasch (http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/woody_tasch/) discusses his book, .  And Katy Lederer (http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/lederer.html) transforms her experience working in the fast money culture of Wall Street into poetry in the book , . We're all reeling from the roller coaster-ride of fast money, where trillions of dollars transact daily across silicon microchips, and trillions evaporate in the shifting sands unfettered capitalism.  The solution?  Slow money, according to Woody Tasch, recent founder of the nonprofit by that name (http://www.slowmoneyalliance.org/).  In his book, also called Slow Money, Tasch consciously riffs on the notion of Slow Food (http://www.slowfood.com/), the Italian-gone-global movement of reconnecting our eating with the land that produces our food.  As he hints in the subtitle of his book -- Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered -- Tasch plays on the agrarian metaphor of slow money as compost in which to nurture a new kind of economy. For a decade, until 2008, Woody Tasch chaired the Investor's Circle (http://www.investorscircle.net/), angel investors who deploy patient capital toward a sustainable future. In the 1990s, Tasch served as treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation (http://www.noyes.org/).  There, he and foundation president Steve Viederman first critiqued the dissonance (http://www.noyes.org/94essay.html) between foundations' grantmaking, which aligns with their missions, and investing, which often counteracts social and environmental commitments of their missions.  They sought to harmonize their foundation's mission with its investing, which typically accounts for 95 percent of an endowment, as well as its granting, which accounts for the remaining 5 percent. Bill Baue clean http://www.cchange.net/2009/01/28/after-capitalism-prout-as-a-sustainable-democratic-economic-model/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/01/28/after-capitalism-prout-as-a-sustainable-democratic-economic-model/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:14:18 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=470 http://www.cchange.net/2009/01/28/after-capitalism-prout-as-a-sustainable-democratic-economic-model/feed/ 0 Alternative Economic Models,Clean Tech,Climate Change,climate policy,Climate Progress,Community Economic Engagement,corporate governance,corporate social responsibility,EPA,greenhouse gas emissions,joe romm,Lisa Woll Today, Dada Maheshvarananda meditates on the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT. Joe Romm of Climate Progress analyzes the climate resolve of the Obama Administration. Lisa Woll of the Social Investment Forum propose... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dadamaheshvarananda-150x150.jpg) Today, Dada Maheshvarananda meditates on the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory (http://www.prout.org/), or PROUT. Joe Romm of Climate Progress (http://climateprogress.org/) analyzes the climate resolve of the Obama Administration. Lisa Woll of the Social Investment Forum (http://www.socialinvest.org/) proposes (http://www.socialinvest.org/documents/ObamaAdministrationFINAL1.14.pdf) an Office for Innovation in Corporate Social Responsibility to the Obama Administration.  And auto and environment expert Jim Motavalli (http://www.jimmotavalli.com/index.html) comments on the significance of President Obama's executive order (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_greenhouse_gases) directing the EPA to reconsider its refusal to grant California a waiver allowing it to regulate greenhouse gases from autos. Capitalism, in the highly deregulated form currently practiced, is showing signs of collapse.  What happens After Capitalism?  Dada Maheshvarananda meditates on this very , which outlines the alternative economic model of Progressive Utilization Theory, or PROUT.  Maheshvarananda directs the PROUT Institute of Venezuela (http://www.priven.org/).  Last Thanksgiving, he visited our studios, soon after he had published a commentary (http://vcr.csrwire.com/node/11848) entitled "The Human Cost of Economic Meltdown and Its Alternative." Bill Baue clean