Neal Gorenflo
Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal is perhaps an unlikely voice for sharing. A revelation in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people share through Internet startups, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends…
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A New World Political Architecture
Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the closing presentation on A New World Political Architecture (1)
Introduction by Nancy Roof
It was a dedicated and globally diverse group of leaders who
gathered together at the beautiful old monastery in Bosco Marengo,
Italy on October 27-28, 2006. These leaders had been invited by
Mikhail Gorbachev and The World Political Forum to participate
in the…
An Interview with John Räätz, Founder of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment
Räätz: I no longer have a definition of transformational media and
entertainment. When I hear it or see it, I feel it. I instantly know it!
But how can I talk about transformational entertainment or media with
others if I don’t want to adhere to a strict definition of what it is?
What distinguishes a transformational film from an ordinary Hollywood
film, for example? I believe…
Awakening the Energies of Love
By Anne Hillman
At a national professional conference thirty years ago, I stood
before a hand-painted poster that so captivated me, I wanted it the way a
child wants a treasure found at the beach. Since then, that sheet of
newsprint has hung where I see it every day. The paint is faded and the
paper worn, but Teilhard de Chardin’s message is timeless:
When man discovers Love,
He will have discovered Fire…
Beyond Bailouts | How a Circulation Charge Can Help Save and Transform Global Finance
An Earth Shaking Wake-up Call
The global financial crisis has created tremendous uncertainty about the
future prospects of human society. Very few people saw it coming and
even fewer, if any, can say with much degree of certainty what will
happen next. National governments are currently injecting trillions of
dollars into their financial systems and the broader economy simply to
cushion the fall…
Beyond Economism – Policies Guided by “Earth Ethics”
Caring for the Soul of the World
Too often, spiritual imagination takes flight from the world and
cannot seem to hold together the realm of being with the realm of doing.
I once had a dream that showed me this necessity of holding
contradictories without seeking resolution.
In the dream, I was in an interior courtyard. A man had fallen to
the ground, suffering from a heart attack. I was attempting to do
something by pounding on…