Spring, 'Sacred Economics', and some upcoming public workshops

London Undergrowth #1

I hope you are having a great Spring.

I've just finished reading Charles Eisenstein's Sacred Economics. It’s quite a long read, so I recommend starting with this video, which provides a good summary of his vision for a new economy. I particularly enjoyed this provocation:

The task before us is to align money with the true expression of our gifts. It requires a very different mechanism for the creation of money and the circulation of money. They include things like negative interest, which reverses the effects of usury. They include things like the internalization of costs, so you can no longer pollute and have somebody else or future generations pay the costs. They include a social dividend: sharing in the wealth that comes from what should be the commons -- the land, the aquifers, our cultural heritage. They include a relocalization of a lot of economic functions. They include all kinds of peer-to-peer financing and the peer-to-peer revolution."

We will be bringing these ideas into a series of free-to-attend Doughnut Economics workshops in May, June and July. These will take place at Space4 in Finsbury Park.

Here’s the plan:

Doughnut Economics: An Introduction
📅 22nd May 2023, 6-8pm
📍 Space4, Finsbury Park, London
🎟️ Book your space

Doughnut Economics: Explore The Models
📅 19th June 2023, 6-8pm
📍 Space4, Finsbury Park, London
🎟️ Book your space

Doughnut Economics: Take the doughnut to your neighbourhood
📅 17th July 2023, 6-8pm
📍 Space4, Finsbury Park, London
🎟️ Book your space

You can find all the details of this series and past events on the London Undergrowth website.

London Undergrowth will also be running some nature-based experiences in the Summer. We'll let you know when those dates go live.

John 💚