February 3, 2011 – 11:27 am by Susan Seymour
The report on the Steady State Economics Conference held in Leeds last June is now available here: http://steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/ It is much more readable than most conference reports as the discussions in the workshops have been written up in a standard format. It covers a wide range of topics (see index page below). I found it [...]
December 2, 2010 – 11:42 pm by Jo Poole
Tagged business ethics, Gillian Tett, Quakers and business, social anthropology, sustainability
At the recent Quaker Business Conference 2010, senior Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett explained why she thought the answer to the above question is ‘yes’. Before becoming a journalist, Gillian worked as a social anthropologist in Soviet Tajikistan while studying for a PhD. One of the things anthropologists observe is what is discussed and, perhaps [...]
November 22, 2010 – 11:39 am by Phil Entwistle
Tagged banks ethics investment speculation
I’m feeling angry about Ireland and the bail-out. No-one seems to be asking the banks to pay for their mess. Surely it would be better to let them fail, instead of giving them the chance to do it again. Perhaps then we’d get some banks whose ethics more nearly matched those of most of their [...]
November 4, 2010 – 11:37 am by JeffMowatt
Tagged capitalism, compassion, ethics, international, people-centered
This story begins with an invitation from the US President offering a citizen the opportunity to serve on a committee, the one which drives the campaign for his re-election. He’s given no brief for the role, that of honorary researcher, so decides to write a white paper a “what if” describing a new economic paradigm [...]
October 19, 2010 – 10:52 am by Jo Poole
This course is run by the Quakers & Business Group from Wednesday evening, 3rd – Thurs pm, 4th November, 2010. Charney Manor, Oxon A coaching skills programme with a spiritual core and foundation. For all those who coach others as part of their work, whether as owners, coaches or line managers. Offered by Sandra Goddard [...]
September 21, 2010 – 10:23 am by Jo Poole
The Bretton Woods Project, an NGO that works on the global financial institutions, is looking to recruit a (paid) intern in London for 6 months or longer. It would focus on their work on the World Bank related to environment (climate, energy, infrastructure, etc), social impacts and human rights. More details here. There is also [...]
August 25, 2010 – 2:01 pm by suzannei
Tagged international
Staff from the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva report The forthcoming Millenium Development Goal Review Summit has prompted an enormous amount of activity by groups and governments around the world. Mostly missing from this, however, has been attention to armed violence – a key factor that is undermining MDG progress. Some 740,000 men, women [...]
August 25, 2010 – 1:41 pm by suzannei
Tagged green
Martin Large (Nailsworth LM) describes how Community Land Trusts are bringing social, cultural, economic and other benefits across the UK. Securing affordable and open access to land is a live issue here in Stroud. Our local Community Land Trust (CLT), Gloucestershire Land for People has just announced a partnership with Kevin McLeod, presenter of Grand [...]
April 26, 2010 – 9:02 pm by cyn
At last this last week we got a vague glimpse of the ‘elephant in the room’ whose overpowering influence we have all felt for the last how many years, though it remained unnamed - the IMF! And on the same day as the IMF announced they were proposing taxes on banks – just like they decided more [...]
April 26, 2010 – 9:19 am by Flying Stag
In this contribution, I refer in particular to the posting by Dave Milner on 9-2-2010 on the thread ‘Zero Growth Economy – A New Paradigm’. The recent Channel 4 series “Beautiful Minds” has brilliantly demonstrated the value of original thought which spans the boundaries of the recognised academic disciplines, and which indeed does not [...]
