Conscious Money Speakers Series will be weekly on Mondays, 5.15-6.15 PST, January 11-April 5. 12 great speakers on money, life, the economy and the future. Only $12 per class or $79 for the whole series. Join me and Alisa Gravitz, Bill McKibben, Brent Kessel, David …
The title has two meanings. First, that my reporting will be distorted by my spotty capacity to absorb and understand a massive download of information plus all the background interpretive conversations. Second, that there is a rumble about the Western translation of the distinctly Bhutanese …
The next post will be the content of yesterday, the first day of the 5th International GNH conference. This one is about me demonstrating the principle of relative happiness. The idea is that we are happy with our lot until our neighbor gets a Lexus. …
I landed in Iguassu Falls some 24 hours after leaving home. When you travel you have to surrender for if you try to control your destiny you’re in for a miserable time. After some confusion getting all the international travelers sorted out into hotels, a …
In just a few hours I’m off to Brazil to speak at the 5th International Gross National Happiness conference… and I want to take you all with me. I’ll be blogging frequently as I deepen my own understanding of GNH and tell others how the …
My friend Alex Steffen, founder of www. worldchanging.com, has a vision of “bright green cities” where denizens use high tech, low energy consumption ways to work, play and get around, where cultural life is vibrant, where citizens are engaged, where life is dynamic and interesting …
A participant in the current Discover Your Enough Point class wrote this when he signed up: Back in 1993 after I got out of college I got a job making good money and lived with my folks. I blew every cent and just had fun! …
We do know, thanks to Jim Hansen and many others, that 350 PPM (parts per million) is the most carbon we should in the recipe for air. We now have 387 and rising. This “too muchness” reflects our collective incapacity to know how much is …
I’ve opened a “tele-class school” and you’re invited. It’s for people who want to ground the Your Money or Your Life approach in any part of their lives where it all get’s too much: over-busy, over-spending, over-eating, over-worrying, over-committed and over-whelmed. There are 2 free …
I talked recently with some friends about their money struggles. The Recession ate their Retirement. They intended to stop working in two years and enjoy the nest they’d feathered lo these many years. Now they just don’t have enough money. Our conversation inspired me to …