Topic: For the Love of Life: Finding Our Way to an Ecological Civilization

Presenters: David Korten

David Korten’s website headlines “Humans are Earth’s ultimate choice-making species. Our decisions have defining consequences for the whole of Earth’s community of life.” In this season of elections, he will join us and encourage us to make Life-loving choices that help us find our way to a future defined as Ecological Civilization.

David C. Korten is an American writer, lecturer, engaged citizen, student of psychology and behavioral systems, a prominent critic of corporate globalization, and an advocate of Ecological Civilization. He is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum and a full member of the Club of Rome, a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

He left a teaching position in the Harvard School of Business to work for thirty years with real-world solutions to economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Upon his return to the US he wrote When Corporations Rule the World, his critique of a global economy that does not work for those most in need. It became an international best-seller.  See his website, davidkorten.org, for a list of the many books he has written to press for economic decision-making that serves life. Korten has been greatly influenced by the 1989 book by John B. Cobb and Herman Daly, “For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future.” John Cobb valued Korten’s participation in the 2015 conference in Claremont on Seizing an Alternative, Ecological Civilization.

Co-founder and former board chair of YES! Magazine (now YES! Media), he is the author of numerous influential books. A recent defining publication is “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence.” He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health.

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