[GJM] Fw: THE NEW ECONOMY.

[mary rose]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert searle" <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <discussion at globaljusticemovement.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: [GJM] THE NEW ECONOMY.


>
> Dear All,
>
>       By chance I came across a magazine entitled The New Economy which 
> seems to show how capitalism could help many things including 
> environmentalism. There is a wikipedia account about this "new" term not 
> ofcourse to be confused with the New Economics Foundation ofcourse!!
>
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economy
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>
> The link to the magazine (somewhat glossy) is..
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>   http://www.neweconomymagazine.com/

Robert, I Googled this site, and found an interesting
article on making oil out of bug excrement from a
link from New Economy to the online Times.

>From The TimesJune 14, 2008

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically 
altered to provide 'renewable petroleum'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

Thanks a lot for this link, the mag is too glitzy for me, but it will 
titillate the interest of many.
One of the things about glitz is that it is too often directed toward the 
promotion of products
and services which belong to the era of modernity, but are promoted as being 
"green," like
the Nova town concept in Las Vegas.  The past is an era which we have found 
to be filled
with "tech items" that can't and don't fill the hole where soul use to 
reside. And the result
of too much emphasis on tech has been dissociation. Somehow we need to 
integrate the
basic qualities of life that provided us with soul with the emergent 
qualities that give us
greater power in the world so that we have balance. .

We need to seriously consider what is "appropriate technology" before we 
even get to the
design stage to ensure that it is also infused with soul as well as being a 
useful tool. We
need to consider whether robots on an assembly line are really producing the 
equal of
hand-crafted quality items created with love. Do we want quantity or 
quality?  .

IMHO,

With love and in gratitude for all that you do, Robert, and all that we do 
together. .

mary rose