Regenerative Economics
London. Money. Brands. Luxury. This is one of the biggest tax havens in the world - you can small the green-ness of the money in this town. Such a small island too, home to those who make the deals.
Finally I have found a book that explains everything I have been building and learning over the past 2 years - a book that explains the concept of regenerative economics, the future economy. So when I walk thru the streets of London it seems one day all this luxury will disappear because it can't regenerate and is based on the concept of scarcity. The very act of creating abundance is such a wholly massive threat to so much else because it presupposes there is enough for everybody and our desires will actually finally be met.
I think this must be the biggest revolution our modern economies will face - how to reclassify all our systems of manufacturing and delivery - consumption and exchange when we start living in the new economy that does not waste. An economy based in ideas and not things.
When I stepped out of the material economy two years ago it took me a long while to lose the feelings I had of being almost like a leper who desired very little except healthiness and equality. And still it's hard in the face of all this so-muchness to stand apart from it and be happy in the lack of desire for it. But to believe in the regeneration of the planet, the growth and health and feeding of it is such a more beautiful store window to look into. It is like escaping to the top of a beautiful mountain on a warm spring day looking over a river crashing endlessly into the sea.
In the movie 'The Queen' I saw a few nights ago here in London there is such a lovely scene when Helen Mirren is sitting quietly crying from all the confusion and stress of what is going on with Diana's death. She turns suddenly when she hears a buck behind her - the one the young princes want to shoot and clain trophy over - that she too is hoping to own in some way. But in it's beauty and it's example of regenerativeness she privately and intimately changes her mind. She chooses life over waste and keeps this secret to herself.
Namaste.
Finally I have found a book that explains everything I have been building and learning over the past 2 years - a book that explains the concept of regenerative economics, the future economy. So when I walk thru the streets of London it seems one day all this luxury will disappear because it can't regenerate and is based on the concept of scarcity. The very act of creating abundance is such a wholly massive threat to so much else because it presupposes there is enough for everybody and our desires will actually finally be met.
I think this must be the biggest revolution our modern economies will face - how to reclassify all our systems of manufacturing and delivery - consumption and exchange when we start living in the new economy that does not waste. An economy based in ideas and not things.
When I stepped out of the material economy two years ago it took me a long while to lose the feelings I had of being almost like a leper who desired very little except healthiness and equality. And still it's hard in the face of all this so-muchness to stand apart from it and be happy in the lack of desire for it. But to believe in the regeneration of the planet, the growth and health and feeding of it is such a more beautiful store window to look into. It is like escaping to the top of a beautiful mountain on a warm spring day looking over a river crashing endlessly into the sea.
In the movie 'The Queen' I saw a few nights ago here in London there is such a lovely scene when Helen Mirren is sitting quietly crying from all the confusion and stress of what is going on with Diana's death. She turns suddenly when she hears a buck behind her - the one the young princes want to shoot and clain trophy over - that she too is hoping to own in some way. But in it's beauty and it's example of regenerativeness she privately and intimately changes her mind. She chooses life over waste and keeps this secret to herself.
Namaste.
posted by Sue Stanfield at 7:36 AM
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