Category: Future Positive

Timothy Wilken Notice anything different? I am pleased to announce that the look of the synearth.net websites is changing. Thanks to the help of web designer Bryan Bell and system engineer […]

L. W. Nicholson At this time in our history, the human species is finding it ever more difficult to maintain some degree of synchronization between the two worlds in which […]

by Dee Hock Retirement on the job at the National Bank of Commerce was not all reflection. One day stands out. I had been sent to a suburban office to […]

by Ira Nayman In times of hyper-capitalism, where everything is naturally seen as for sale, the idea that anybody does anything without expectation of financial compensation is considered absurd. Where […]

A book review by Eric Nehrlich After reading Trickster Makes This World, I went back and picked up this earlier book by Lewis Hyde. Again, his mastery of mythology amazes […]

Barbara J. Pescan Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific have an elaborate ritual way of passing gifts of necklaces and arm bands made of shells. The shells themselves are nicely […]

by Ed Phillips It’s free, it’s out here, but you’re going to have to dig for it. You are going to have to give something away in order to receive […]

Salon.com Both Larry Augustin and Eric Steven Raymond are believers in something called “the gift economy”—a way of organizing labor in cyberspace that runs counter to the normal business practices […]

Timothy Wilken I will posting lighter here for the next few days, I am working on my description of a Gift Tensegrity. Tensegrity is the most powerful organizational pattern in known […]

Johnius Ecstaticus Related to this idea is another idea gaining in popularity: the Golden Thread.  The idea is that all religions have at their core, a center of love, joy […]