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What is emerging that is new for you as you look through the weaving report (download here) and +the interviews we have shared as part of our weaving work? What new connections are you making?

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Marissa Mommaerts

This whole process was incredibly inspiring and illuminating. Thanks so much to everyone who lent their time, energy, and insight to this project! I look forward to continuing the conversation.

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Working with you on the project has been one of the highlights for me, Marissa!

@Jessie Henshaw

Interesting to use HackPad this way. I'm concerned that talking about how to make local networks work doesn't address the global network that is the source of our ever more challenging sets of problems. Here's what I posted to the Resilience.org blog review of it: http://www.resilience.org/resource-detail/2353188-weaving-the-community-resilience-and-new My comment sides with view expressed on "Capitalism and the New Economy" that "the profit motive is inherently limiting", but adds, * and particularly as investors are as yet not being shown how to measure the long term costs*

-- There's a strange omission from the whole "New Economy" concept, how to heal the *old* economy. The "old economy" does indeed use its profits to multiply its deficits... you might very well point out is a real defect,... but we are all highly dependent on it and so will all clearly sink or swim with it too. It's what we use to support and link the world's diverse multi-cultural institutions and innumerable complex specializations. You can't just "opt out" of that, as we see in our daily lives, supporting our habits of living simply and sustaining our local lives, using money we get one way or another, from our global lives.

-- One comprehensive approach comes from recognizing how thoroughly integrated the world economy actually is, if you "follow the money" and see how clearly "delivering any product takes the whole economy". It means every share of GDP is as a measure of benefits is also a proportional share of GDP's liabilities. From that the social networks that steer the world (what markets and communities do as they make collective choices) could get much more complete and truthful information on the real costs of our profits, to tell us what is actually profitable for the whole "new economy" to invest in.

http://synapse9.com/signals/2014/02/03/a-world-sdg/

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An extensive exchange with Ken White followed the same post on www.resilience.org, and can be read here: +Henshaw/White Exchange