Economic Dimension
The Economic Dimension of the EDE establishes a firm basis for instituting economic sustainability at the community scale. Intrinsic to the EDE approach is rightly relegating the discipline of Economics as a subset of Ecology.
Ecovillage economics re-localizes responsibility for livelihood, production, and prosperity to a regional-community base. Included in this Dimension are the following Modules:
- Shifting the Global Economy to Sustainability
- Right Livelihood
- Social Enterprise
- Community Banks and Currencies
- Legal and Financial Issues
NOTE: The following was written to introduce the specific teaching of the Economic Dimension that was presented in February of 2008. The courses of the future will vary in specific content.
Join us as we hold the vision of co-creating a world that works for everyone. In an exciting 9 day exploration in design process, you will discover the fundamental pattern shifts that are beginning to happen in our economic and monetary systems necessary to make that world a reality. You will apply these design patterns, principles and practices in your personal life and projects so that you can begin bringing forth that world in your life immediately.
(Please note: unfortunately, we will not have Vicki Robin with us as originally planned. However, we are pleased to have found Margo Ganster to replace Vicki. Margo has extensive experience in the same areas. See below.)
What a treat for us to have four great leaders of the new social and economic paradigm joining us for this exploration: Rich Ruster: Ph.D in holistic psychology and whole systems science; author of The Homing Process: A Unifying Theory of Evolving Systems & The Human Dream
Blog at richardruster.com; Executive Steward of Hummingbird Community in Northern New Mexico, Maggie Seeley: Managing Partner of Green It! The Sustainability Team, City of Albuquerque consultant; International Business Consultant; UNM teacher in the Sustainability Studies Department and the Anderson Graduate School of Management, Laird Schaub: Canbridge Consulting and Facilitation, teacher, trainer, and facilitator in consensus decision making and conflict resolution,; Co-Founder and Executive Secretary for the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC); Co-Founder of Sandhill Farm, an egalitarian community modeling alternative economics; Margo Ganster, a skilled group facilitator, has created and offered her own lifestyle enhancement programs through Sageways, Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance, The Real Life Training Group and UNM Continuing Education. Her specialty is coaching people into healthy relationship with money and with themselves. She has become financially independent as a result of applying the processes she teaches.
Come explore with us such subjects as Shifting the Global Economy to Sustainability; Local Currencies; Right Livelihood; Social Enterprises; Ecovillage Principles; Natural Capitalism; Ecology of Commerce; Triple Bottom Line; Nurturing Local Economies; and more,