There’s got to be a better name for this. The concept is to form committees (boards or councils if you will) that are responsible to facilitate and ensure optimal community health within their eco-social jurisdiction. The purpose of the project is to fund the role of neo-ombuds, so that in this by this region, there [...]
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The Neo-Ombudsman Project
Posted in Ethics, New England, Progressive Utilization, Regional Economy on May 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Measuring the Experience Economy
Posted in Progressive Utilization, Sustainable Economics on April 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What is a successful economy? One that delivers the optimal mix of social welfare. Any other measure is just a secondary indicator. An example of the Nasruddin story: Nasruddin (a Sufi holy fool) was seen scrambling about in the gutter obviously desparately looking for something. When asked by a friend “Nasruddin, what are you looking [...]
Measuring the Common Good
Posted in Progressive Utilization, Sustainable Economics on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How do we know if public policy is effective at improving lives? How do we know if our charitable and socially responsible business efforts improves lives? Or, are we just kidding ourselves, trying to make ourselves “feel good” rather than “be good and feel good”? In yogic teachings there is a theme of “subjective approach, [...]
Progressive Utilization Theory
Posted in Ethics, Progressive Utilization on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1960, an Indian guru named PR Sarkar, elaborated on his suggested spiritual approach of personal meditation interacting with a social service attitude in the world. He articulated an outline of a worldview and strategy for social change that commented on critical short and long term political and institutional setting of the world. Particularly, in [...]
Introducing “Locus”
Posted in Food, Locus, New England, Progressive Utilization, Regional Economy, Sustainable Economics on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I remember hearing a Sweet Honey in the Rock song 20 years ago “Are My Hands Clean”, that traced the production of a fashion shirt from the source of its materials, labor, machining, all value-addition. Cotton from who knows where, oil drilled in Bahrain -> refined in ____->made into polyester resin in ____-> blend spun [...]
Regional Economy
Posted in New England, Progressive Utilization, Regional Economy, Sustainable Economics, Transportation on August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
According to Adam Smith, economies can improve by division of labor. More output is possible from the same amount of time expended. Higher quality products are possible when the individuals making those products are good and skilled at making them. More customization is possible. Land or people’s skills may be used for the purpose that [...]
