Toward a More Conscious Economy, with David Korten

David's hour long, in depth interview with Michael Toms for New Dimensions Media will be broadcast for a week on more than 300 community radio stations in the US and available via streaming on-line for two weeks beginning December 16.  (Check www.newdimensions.org for stations in your area and streaming instuctions.  You can also download the interview on MP3 from the website - Program 3325 - for a nominal fee of $1.99.)

During the course of Michael's conversation with David, New Dimensions Media co-founder Justine Willis Toms writes, "They will explore:

• Why concentrating wealth in the hands of a very few people is a threat to democracy
• How the recent spiritual awakening may affect our economy
• Why most of us pay a price when the stock market goes up
• How business and spirituality are connected
• What might have happened if two trillion dollars had gone to citizens instead of banks

Many of us are still reeling from the recent economic meltdown.  In the face of so much uncertainty, it's difficult to make sense of the multitude of analyses and predictions about what's to come.  What does it all mean in the context of the broader shifts in global culture and consciousness?

At last, there's a voice of reason that brings not only sanity but consciousness to a real understanding of how our economy works - and why it often doesn't - and how we can apply principles of spirituality and conscious living to the choices we must make for our own financial survival.

David Korten understands the economy, and he also knows that moeny is not all it's cracked up to be -- we really can be happy with very little, after all.  But he explains how we can use the money we do have, as an instrument for the change we seek, and to strengthen the communities that really are fundamental to our happiness.  He tells us, 'The happier societies are those in which there is a more equitable distribution of wealth.  Not only hapiness, but physical and mental health are higher in those societies, including for people at the top.  We need to be rebuilding our communities and our economies from the bottom up.'"

While you're waiting until the 16th, a 19-minute interview with David, An Economy That Serves the Public Interest," is now featured on New Dimensions Cafe free streaming audio.   For more information - www.newdimensions.org