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Hawai’i Kōnea: A Story from the Future

November 10, 2021business, Climate, Democracy, Economy, Education, energy, Nature, politics, Spirituality and Scienceecofuturism, ecovillage, future, hawai'i, Honolulu, WaikikiGuy Dauncey

Honolulu, January 16th, 2193

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It’s sunset, at the end of another beautiful day in Honolulu. The high tide is arguing with the seawall, which was raised another metre last year to protect the Capitol Building – but what’s new? They’re still not on good terms with each other.

My name is Ben Danner-Pualani, and tomorrow I will give the biggest speech of my life in front of all my peers. They say it will be broadcast to every schoolchild. I’m 87, and for my sins I have been granted the pomposity of being a Senator, so I’ve seen a bit, but this has the butterflies crawling all over my poor weak heart, under my great grandfather’s ancient robe.

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Six Green New Deals: How Do They Compare?

September 13, 2019Climate, Democracy, EconomyBernie Sanders, business, community, ecology, electricity, Elizabeth Warren, energy, finance, food, future, Green New Deal, Green Party, jobs, money, Nature, Oil, politics, transportationGuy Dauncey

This blog was updated on September 27th 2019 to TEN Green New Deals – see here.

Let’s Make Every Business a Social Purpose Business

March 19, 2018business, EconomyA new economy, B Corporations, business, cooperatives, economics, economy, future, money, Partnerships, purpose, Social enterprise, Socially responsible investmentGuy Dauncey

By Guy Dauncey, March 2018

If we are to live in a fair, just, ecologically sustainable world, many things in our economy will need to change, from the way banks create money to the way environmental losses and gains are accounted for and measured.

Let’s start with the businesses that grow the food, manufacture the products and provide the services we all depend on and enjoy.

It’s almost impossible to imagine a successful economy without its businesses. The Soviet Union tried, and Cuba is still trying, but neither has had much success. It’s hard to have success when the spirit of enterprise is not allowed to flourish. Continue reading Let’s Make Every Business a Social Purpose Business →

Let Us Create An EcoRenaissance

February 3, 2018Economy, Education, NatureArt, beauty, community, ecology, future, Nature, revolution, spirit, storyGuy Dauncey

by Guy Dauncey, February 2nd, 2018

If you want to see what this EcoRenaissance looks like on the ground, click HERE.

Until a thing has a name, it doesn’t really exist

I can feel this future. I have written a novel about it. I love its colour and vibrancy, its harmony with Nature. But what is its name?

One of the realities of the spoken language is that until a thing has a name, it doesn’t really exist. When we want to create something, we name it.

The feeling that comes to mind is one of Renaissance – the birth of a new vision, the promise of a new future. The Renaissance that was seeded in the 13^th century and blossomed into glory in the 15^th and sixteenth centuries filled people’s hearts, souls and minds with art, imagination and ideas. It took inspiration from the rediscovered science, art and philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome. It made souls take flight, washing away the dull dogmatism and cruel muddy feudalism of a world where nothing much changed except by disease, disorder and death.

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Book Review: The Clean Money Revolution – Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism

May 24, 2017Books, Climate, Economybusiness, future, impact investing, investment, love, money, socially responsibleGuy Dauncey

by Joel Solomon with Tyee Bridge

New Society Publishers, April 2017. Review by Guy Dauncey.

This is a great book. It’s personal, committed, passionate, informative, and full of great stories. For an addicted change-the-worlder, what more can you ask?

And the stories, from Joel’s personal life and those of his colleagues, are about one of the most important challenges we need to embrace on our planet – changing the way we invest our money.

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A Modern Alphabet

September 29, 2015Music and Poetrybeauty, diaphany, energy, evolution, future, hope, joy, love, Nature, ocean, peace, Poetry, revolution, spirit, spirituality, utopia, victoryGuy Dauncey

The Practical Utopian

The World of Guy Dauncey

Tag Archives: future

Hawai’i Kōnea: A Story from the Future

Honolulu, January 16th, 2193

Six Green New Deals: How Do They Compare?

Let Us Create An EcoRenaissance

Until a thing has a name, it doesn’t really exist

Book Review: The Clean Money Revolution – Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism

A Modern Alphabet

A is for Albatross

A is for Albatross,

far-winging freely across oceans of wonder,

mating for life till they die,

but their chicks have a diet of grim plastic plunder,

filling their bellies with lies.

Honolulu, January 16th, 2193

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A is for Albatross,

far-winging freely across oceans of wonder,

mating for life till they die,

but their chicks have a diet of grim plastic plunder,

filling their bellies with lies.

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