DIALOGUE ON
"LIVING ECONOMIES FOR A LIVING PLANET"
by David C. Korten
[ Parent Page ] [ Part I: INTRODUCTION ] [ Part II: PATHOLOGY ] [ Part III: SUCCESSION ] [ Part IV: AWAKENING ] [ Part V: COMMUNITY ] [ Part VI: LIVING ] [ SUPPORTING ESSAYS ] [ DIALOGUE ]
The draft essay has stimulated a lively exchange with a number
of colleagues. The following are selected excerpts that bring new insights and highlight a variety of issues for further
examination.
Betty Quick.
Recalls how the local living economy of the community in which she lived as a
child provided a good living for her friends and neighbors even during the great
depression of the 1930s.
Joanna Macy. Comments
on key concepts from the essay.
Richard Perl. Suggests
additional concepts, ideas, and points needing elaboration.
Elisabet
Sahtouris. Reflection on the issues.
Tom Atlee I. More
than a commentary, this response from Tom Atlee to the "Living
Economies" essay is an extended essay in its own right that takes the
discussion to a next level of sophistication. Includes extensive additional
links to relevant sources dealing with the evolution of consciousness and
culture.
Tom Atlee II. Responses
to Richard Perl's inputs with reactions from Korten.
Judy Wicks. Commentary.
Includes comments
on the state of the socially responsible business movement and a report
on action initiatives toward growing living economy networks into being the
Philadelphia area and nationally.
Ernie Lowe.
Critical comments from an industrial ecologist on the use of biological
analogies, plus two essays dealing with frameworks of industrial ecology.
Elisabet
Sahtouris. Response to Ernie Lowe commentary
Tom Atlee.
Response to Ernie Lowe commentary
David C.
Korten. Response to Ernie Lowe commentary
Sarah van Gelder.
Critical feedback on discussion of the Era of Empire, biological success,
Cultural Creatives, and making the economy a central focus of the
discussion..
Last revised on August 24, 2002. First posted July
20, 2001 |