Contemplating Simple Lessons on the Economic Importance of the First Thanksgiving Over 400 years have passed since the “First Thanksgiving” in 1621, which equals just as many years of tragedy and mourning by indigenous peoples. …

A letter for my high school students Dear students, We began our economic thinking journey together by paying attention to nature, discussing purpose, considering our values, making agreements, and exploring aspects of monetary design and strategies of the social solidarity economy. We sought alignment with nature and indigenous values, agreements, and designs. As this phase of our economic exploration…

‪”The most powerful tool in economics is not money, nor even algebra. It is a pencil. Because with a pencil you can redraw the world.” — Kate Raworth Kate Raworth, creator of the Doughnut Economics model and author of Doughnut Economics, 7 Ways to the Think Like a 21st Century…

13 Salutogenic Practices for Design-Thinking and Collaboration What is Salutogenic? Salutogenesis causes Health. It is the opposite of Pathogenesis which causes Suffering. A Salutogenic Approach to design-thinking begins with the end in mind: a Purpose. When the compass is set by Purpose, and calibrated by Values and Agreements, Salutogenic Practices set the course. Salutogenic Sailing, so to speak, allows for…

The following is the first attempt to condense and distill The End of Finance, by Massimo Amato and Luca Fantacci, chapter by chapter. As innovations and actions accelerate around decentralized and regenerative finance, understanding what finance is and how, immersed in it, our thinking may have been clouded, it is…

Purpose Salutogenic Economic Design is a framework for rooting economic understanding, and therefore new economic design, in the fundamentals of human and ecosystem flourishing. This is a framework or all futurists: activists, investors, philanthropists, Web3 designers, municipal managers, and youth. We need YOU(th)!! From Extractive Economics Toward Regeneration and Resilience Economics is essentially about how money is created…

After the debatable success of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, in 2015, all 193 United Nations member countries signed on to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to “create the future we want in 2030.” (World Bank). In 2016, Costa Rica became the first country in the world to sign an…

There are so many books, essays, podcasts, articles, soundtracks, blog posts, and videos. Ugh! Unplugging for a weekend bike ride, hike, and forest therapy walk, I still have oodles of work to do grading and setting up the online learning platforms and semester of curriculum for my high school students…

Most teachers and therapists will have some introduction to cognitive psychology, whose cognitive leader is Jean Piaget. 2–6 year olds are in the preoperational stage which includes: Centration. This is the tendency to focus on only one (self-centered) aspect of a situation at one time. (Sound like American culture?) Egocentrism…