Presentation by Peter Brown, co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Summer Sessions 2009

1. Could This Be A Moment of Grace? A time to find a new, or renewed, Human-Earth Relationship?

2. Philadelphia Year Meeting July 29, 2009 A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, resilience and beauty of the commonwealth of life. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - adapted from Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Moral Economy Project Quaker Institute for the Future moraleconomy.org

3. Wrong relationship in Canada

4. September Arctic Ice Cap 1979/2005

5. Reverend Jones

6. 1978

10. Part Two: Rediscovering who and where we are. A Moment of Grace?

12. A. Continuous Creation http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/assets/eagle_nebula.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/eagle_nebula.htm&h=645&w=650&sz=35&tbnid=CqfW_fAc387wiM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=135&hl=en&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpillars%2Bof%2Bcreation%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DG

14. B. Earth from 4 billion miles

16. C. Aldo Leopold

19. God made man in his image and gave the world to him.

20. But co-evolution suggests: The Commonwealth of Life

21. Part Three Rethinking the Economy

22. New Answers to Five Questions About the Economy Based on Right Relationship. What’s the Economy For?: A Flourishing Commonwealth of Life How Does It Work?: Putting the Economy in Its Place How Big Is Too Big?: Boundaries on Consumption and Waste What’s Fair?: Sharing Life’s Bounty How Should It Be Governed?: New Ways to Stay in Bounds and Play Fair

23. What’s the economy for?

24. Whole Earth Economy Keynes had it right: a principle goal of the economy is social stability, but we need to broaden this to the include the well being of Earth’s ecological systems. We seek a flourishing commonwealth of life—encompassing human and natural communities. To obtain this perspective we need an ethic of respect and reciprocity such as that found in the wisdom of many indigenous cultures, and in some of the world’s major religions.

25. The economy is for maintaining a thriving commonwealth of life.

26. How does it work? It is part of the universe and subject to its laws. (Bernanke)

28. Basic unit of wealth is not $

30. How big is too big?

32. What’s fair? Sharing life’s bounty

35. Leave governance to the high priests of the state sponsored religion?

36. Merwyn King

40. Global Federalism

41. Trusts for the Commons

43. G r o w i n g E c o n o m i c S u b s y s t e m Recycled Matter R e s o u r c e s S o l a r E n e r g y W a s t e H e a t " F u l l W o r l d " E n e r g y E n e r g y R e s o u r c e s FInite Global Ecosystem Sink Functions Source Functions

44. A Strengthened World Court

45. Part Four: Four steps to a whole earth economy 1 Grounding and clarification . Going to the Fountainhead (Thoreau) Finding and nurturing inner strength and resolve. 2 Design . Models, pilots and techniques 3 Witness . Mass epiphany 4 Non-violent reform . Abolishing slavery as a leading model. Meeting with Obama, rethinking the Federal reserve.

46. Overcrowding on the slave ship “Brookes”

50. The Gift of Eternal Life on a Flourishing Earth