"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."                                                                                                      — Buddha

"How can we improve people’s lives without increasing consumption? ... Among many other things, you can pursue quality by making the economy more inclusive, by improving democratic participation and active citizenship. You can take the rewards of growth as extra leisure time rather than extra consumption. You can aim for life-long learning, access to arts and culture and sport. And you can focus on public rather than private affluence.

"Private affluence is individuals gaining things for themselves – possessions, nice homes and experiences. Public affluence is money spent lavishly on things that are shared." - 

Article: What is Public Affluence, and Why Does it Matter?

"Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet was a slow but steadily growing burn, one that has continued, year on year, for ten decades.

"Interspersing twenty-six short prose-poetic pieces with original illustrations, The Prophet has made Gibran the third-bestselling poet in history—behind Shakespeare and Lao Tzu. To date, The Prophet has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide (over 10 million in the United States alone) and has been translated into more than a hundred languages." - Gus Mitchell

Article: Kahlil Gibran: Godfather of the “New Age”

"It is our mission to actualize a work life that is truly equitable, intentionally joyous, and empowers us to live authentically.

"We do this by providing a warm, collaborative coworking space; with advocacy and programing that helps our community meet their daily challenges with the skills and resilience to propel themselves and one another upward. 

"We need one another to be empowered and it is our goal to provide an inspired, collaborative ecosystem of support in which our needs are met and we can reach our true potential in every aspect of our lives."

Website: UpRiseHer

"Today, there are more than 10,000 ecovillages globally, mainly in rural areas, where people are building societies that are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable. These ecovillages are extremely diverse: they can be secular or spiritual, traditional or intentional, on or off the grid. While some ecovillages are quite radical in their politics, sharing everything from financial resources to bedrooms, others are rather mainstream, with people still living in separate homes, working day jobs but also sharing garden spaces and utilities. Despite these differences, ecovillages typically share the worldview that capitalism and industrialization have disconnected us from ourselves, each other and, especially, nature. Ecovillages are an attempt to restore these links. 

“'Most people leave mainstream society for ecovillages to escape neoliberalism and capitalism that dominate their daily lives,' said Nadine Brühwiler, a doctoral student studying the rise of ecovillages at the University of Basel in Switzerland. 'Although they are all vastly different, most ecovillages ask themselves: What do we want to sustain?'” - Mélissa Godin

Article: Searching For Utopia In Our Warming World

"True freedom, as I see it, is the ability to choose wisely between arguments and theories about how the world works and understand how language can manipulate or elevate us. This is why 17th-century English poet and revolutionary John Milton focused his foundational anti-censorship text, 'Areopagitica,' on the civic value of the liberal arts. 'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties,' Milton wrote. 

"One of the greatest defenses of the liberal arts in America was written just 37 years after the Civil War by W.E.B. Du Bois. 'The Souls of Black Folk' is probably best known today as a groundbreaking work of sociology.

"Du Bois also insisted that without access to a complete and comprehensive liberal arts education, Black Americans can never truly be free. To the question, 'Shall we teach them trades or train them in liberal arts?' Du Bois answered, 'Both.' But he maintained that liberal arts must always be the foundation, because 'to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting, not apples of gold.'” -  Blaine Greteman

Article: What are the Liberal Arts? A Literature Scholar Explains

"Traditional marketing's job is to create a steady stream of new customers. But it rarely, if ever, differentiates between types of customers, or the emotional states under which someone makes a purchase decision. Because traditional marketing doesn't make this distinction, it often focuses on quantity over quality. It seeks to create as many customers as possible, regardless of who they are or how you do it.

"Non-coercive marketing is about creating customers who are both aligned and empowered. An aligned customer is someone who is delighted to have done business with you. It's likely they could have purchased something similar elsewhere, but because of their interactions with your marketing, they feel a sense of connection, resonance, or even belonging, and actively choose to transact with you instead of anyone else. An empowered customer is someone whose choice to transact comes not from insecurity, but from self-trust." - Rob Hardy

Article: Non-Coercive Marketing: A Primer

Related Article: The Ethics Of Persuasion

Related Podcast: Feminist Marketing & Copy that Doesn’t Oppress with Kelly Diels

One-liners

Article: Southern Kids Have Lost Their Accents

Article: Engineered microorganism breaks down plastic in salt water.

Article: Hoping to help mitigate the effects of climate change, California is initiating the world’s largest dam removal project.

Article: 'Collective action can have a direct effect on society', Greta’s school strikes led a third of Swiss citizens to change their habits.

Article: The UK's Royal Mint has licensed chemical technology to extract gold from circuit boards found inside discarded laptops and old mobile phones.

Article: Copenhagen company turns buildings into EV-charging cooperatives, with residents sharing revenues