Episode 39: Replacing Metric Dashboards with Life-Coherent Commons: A Debate on Systemic Repair

A debate on dashboard control, field repair, and the life-coherent commons. This episode asks whether metric-driven governance can manage complex global crises — or whether dashboards often hide the living harms they claim to measure, requiring institutions to be re-nested within life, sufficiency, repair, and transgenerational responsibility. Read More

Episode 38: Re-nesting Our Institutions into Life: Toward a Life-Coherent Commons

A deep dive into the Great Inversion, systemic drift, and the life-coherent commons. This episode asks how finance, medicine, law, technology, education, religion, and governance can be re-nested within the shared conditions that allow life to continue, recover, and flourish. Read More

Episode 14: Governing for Shared Life Capacity: Life-Coherent Politics and the Worlds We Conserve

A deep dive into life-coherent politics and the governance of shared life capacity. This episode asks whether our political, economic, legal, and digital systems protect the life ground — or whether people, communities, ecosystems, and attention are being consumed to keep the system running. Read More

Episode 3: An Economy Answerable to Life: Beyond GDP, Unequal Exchange, and the Life-Coherent Reordering of Progress

A deep dive into an economy answerable to life. This episode asks whether progress should be measured by GDP and money-value growth — or by life capacity, ecological repair, democratic provisioning, and the protection of the shared conditions that make life possible. Read More

Energy-Eco Dynamics for Metacrises as curated by ChatGPT4o: From Steve Keen, Kate Raworth, John Fullerton, MMT, Salutogenesis and beyond

Table of Contents

  • How does Steve Keen’s energy-grounded economic dynamic analysis help us to understanding our planetary metacrises?
  • Why is it that these insights are not mainstream to give us a realistic accounting of the operations of the world?
  • Can Keen’s insights and those of Kate Raworth’s Doughnut economics be integrated to create a more realistic economic paradigm?
  • How can Modern Monetary Theory’s insights assist in this paradigm shift transition?
  • How can Fullerton’s Regerative Finance insights assist also in this transition?
  • By using the concepts and insights of salutogenesis in individual health, how can the insights above be translated in terms of social, economical and planetary salutogenesis?
  • Is there any other school of thought that you think may be useful for this paradigm shift to be successful?

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There’s no such thing as the ‘free market’ – excerpt from Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth on Twitter

Reproduced from: https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1046706040069398528

“Next time someone sings the virtues of the ‘free market’, remind them that there’s no such thing. All markets are embedded, in ways that determine who gains the benefits and who bears the costs and risks.”

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Watch “”Planetary health: does our planet have boundaries?” with Prof Yadvinder Malhi and Kate Raworth” on YouTube

Oxford Martin School Streamed live on May 2, 2018 There is mounting evidence that the planet’s capacity to sustain a growing human population, expected to be over 8 billion by 2030, is declining. The degradation of the planet’s air, water and land, combined with significant loss in biodiversity, is also resulting in substantial health impacts,… Read More

From Pathogenic Human Interferences to Anthropogens to Allostatic Overloads to Doughnut Economics to the Cancer Stage of Capitalism

On October 3, 2015, I gave the Keynote Address at Operation Rescue’s Inaugural fundraiser entitled “The Secret to a Healthy Nation.” Present at that function was the Attorney General who encouraged me to write a paper expounding on the subject matter which I did within two weeks. (Please see: The Secret to a Healthy Nation – in-depth… Read More