The stories we tell our children today will shape the institutions they participate in creating and inherit tomorrow…
Author: David Korten
Dr. David C. Korten is the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, and co-founder and board chair emeritus of YES! Magazine.He is best known for his seminal books framing a new economy for the Ecological Civilization to which humanity must now transition. Learn more at https://davidkorten.org/
The Living Universe Story, Part Two
Thomas Berry captured this when he wrote that “the human is the universe reflecting on itself…”
The Living Universe Story, Part One
These ancient stories did not deny conflict or suffering. They acknowledged the human capacity for violence and excess…
OPINION: Surrendering Our Desire for Privilege
A viable human future remains possible. But it must be grounded in sharing, mutual care, and institutions designed to meet essential needs…
OPINION: China Has Defined Our Human Choices, Part Two
According to the World Bank, over the past four decades, China has lifted more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty…
OPINION: China Has Defined Our Human Choices, Part One
In 2005, while serving as provincial party secretary of Zhejiang, Xi Jinping introduced what he called the Two Mountains Theory…
OPINION: Pete Hegseth Just Did America a Big Favor
Hegseth’s gathering put the choice squarely before them. And the generals did not have to wrestle with it in isolation. They looked each other in the eye…
ESSAY: How Do We Heal a Divided Nation?
What Fran and I learned in Indonesia stays with us: that even in silence, people can carry hope; that even within oppressive systems, breakthroughs are possible…
ESSAY: Re-imagining the American Dream
What better nation to pioneer this future than one composed of the world’s peoples?
OPINION: The Transition to Community Stakeholder Corporations
Imperial Shareholder Corporations trace their history back to the tradition and structure of the English East India Company…
ESSAY: Money, and the Great Transition
We are currently experiencing the final stage in a great 10,000-year human cultural transformation…
OPINION: ‘Being More’, Rather Than ‘Having More’
The fantasy that growing GDP benefits everyone and will ultimately create lives of effortless luxury for all has proven to be just that, a fantasy…