Today many agree that we need a “paradigm change.” The “Seizing an Alternative” conference is about encouraging and implementing such a change.

“When I worked at the World Bank,” Daly writes, “I often heard the statement, ‘There is no conflict between economics and ecology. I still hear that a lot today. Is it true? Is it possible?”

Number 1 of the rewrite is, “Thou Shalt Not Ruin Civilization’s Climate.”

John said that he had never been able to see the man in the moon. Malcolm responded that he had always been in love with the man in the moon.

I strive to be as radical as I can, and probe as deeply as possible.

TINA is the last refuge of established orthodoxies. It protects internal failures, and allows the continuation of damage.

The old stories have not led us to a desired future but ever deeper into the mess we are in.

Inaugural conference will open with a video message from legendary singer/songwriter Pete Seeger, composed a few months before he died.

Books that reassess fundamental assumptions and examine worthy alternatives — for your reading list between now and the June conference.

Economic growth should stop when the marginal cost of economic growth begins to exceed its marginal benefit. Beyond that point, further growth brings about dis-economy, or growth-induced problems, which do more harm than good.

The city that had been obliterated by a single bomb was the city in which I had played with the dog: Hiroshima, my childhood home.

The vision we as Whiteheadians want to promote is of the world as “a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects.” The phrase comes from Thomas Berry, who gained his vision from Teilhard de Chardin.