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Qualitative Growth

February 21, 2010 – 9:44 pm by Susan Seymour

I can recommend a short, well-written paper by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson called Qualitative Growth which is published, perhaps surprisingly, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Tomorrow’s Company, a business group. It sets out very clearly the fallacy that endless growth is natural. In nature living things grow to a natural size. Quantitative [...]

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Statement of Business Principles

January 12, 2010 – 7:24 pm by Jo Poole

This is as drafted by the Quakers & Business Group.   It is availiable to download from our website in French, German, Portugese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish.  It is also being translated into Urdu.
The Quakers and Business Group
Statement of Business Principles
1. Truth and Integrity
One name for the Society of Friends called Quakers is ‘The Religious Society [...]

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Thoughts after Copenhagen

December 21, 2009 – 3:09 pm by cyn

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I didn’t believe in the ‘invisible hand of the market’, but after Copenhagen I am beginning to wonder! People across the world told their governments they wanted action on climate change, yet when the leaders of governments met together it was not the voice of the people that was heard but the interests of corporate [...]

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Against Being Positive!

November 3, 2009 – 10:48 am by matthews

There is nothing positive in the economic and environmental catastrophe that will shortly over take the world and I am becoming a little irritated with people telling me to think positive. It sometimes feels like we are in the Life of Brian.
Telling people who are about to lose their livelihoods and homes and in many [...]

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