Sacred Commerce

It is more than coincidence that two books with the title Sacred Commerce have been released at nearly the same time, and also at the time of this emerging global financial recalibration.

I recommend both books,

Ayman Sawaf and Rowan Gabrielle’s, Sacred Commerce: The Rise of the Global Citizen can be further researched and purchased from their website; http://www.sacredcommerce.com.

Founders of Cafe Gratitude, Mathew and Terces Engelhart’s, Sacred Commerce: Business as a Path of Awakening can be purchased from their website; http://www.cafegratitudestore.com/sacredcommerce.html

Whether you purchase these books as gifts for friends, family, your own development or you merely read the descriptions; both of them speak to the currency of checking in with our deeper sense of value.

In the process of drafting a proposal for a revolving loan fund with a friend and colleague, we came across an amusing acronym in articulating the quadruple bottom line; FESS. Financial, Ecological, Social and Spirit, adding UP for Unlimited Potential, and thus we had FESS UP, a playful and sincere collective invitation. Shortly after that I came across PASS, in the text of Cafe Gratitude’s founders book, standing for; Profit, Awakening, Sustainability and Service.

With or without clever acronyms, we are onto something and it is a truly an emergent, intuitive Win-Win capacity.

To catch some other fresh perspective on these emerging potentials relating to micro-lending and more, visit this blog, http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/prosper-a-microlending-model-f-001760.php,

and have fun exploring and articulating the 4 Deep bottom line.

Do your voting everyday, with your dollars and sense.

Bright Green American Dream

Making way for Generation Next.

I have been hearing something on the breeze for a while now, I have a syncing feeling.

It is time for us to make the shift to a Bright Green economy, this is the shift away from a debt based economy into a value-based, regenerative economy.

I am inspired to promote and participate in this in many ways, one among them is to promote the efforts of others who inspire me, and one of those individuals is Barbara Marx Hubbard who is a champion of the Citizens Solutions Council. My offering to the council is encouraging the creation of a space for sharing relevant tools and methods for Bright Green economics.

Some of the generative ideas that can be shared and discussed:
* Creating Bright Green business ideas and start-ups at every scale, welcoming the support and expertise of transitioning industries.
* Video and slideshow demonstrations of permaculture and regenerative design for home and community.
* Current and upcoming events like this upcoming Financial Permaculture and Green Business Summit.
and today’s National Day of Action for Green Jobs.

From here it is exciting for me to consider how to further participate in the spirit of co-creation and collaboration that is rising in all sectors of our global village.

I am launching this blog with the intent of helping to string together and cross-polenate some of these emergent projects, and also to step further into my CoCreative Vocation as a conscious evolver and evolutionary guide. To learn more, stay tuned and check out evolve.org.

I will be sharing more ideas on these topics in the coming months and look forward to co:lab as the order of the day in Regenerative culture.

Meditation exercise:
For a visceral experience of Regenerative economy I recommend a very simple exercise. This could take five minutes or less and is simple yet profound. The ideal way to carry this out is to go outdoors, to a favorite spot, in your garden, a park, or anywhere that you feel at ease, and perhaps connected to nature.
Bring your attention to your breath and imagine the oxygen that is flooding into your lungs, making it’s way into your bloodstream and feeding your cells. Now as you exhale imagine the CO2 that you exhale feeding the plants, trees algae and all oxygen creators that consume CO2.
You may find a rising sense of gratitude for the simplicity of this exchange, for the plants and trees, and if you have that feeling rising up feel free to express that gratitude in your exhalations and inhalations . . . that is the most basic experience of the Bright Green Economy.

p.s. as a note of chaordic synergy I did a quick search for a seed-sprout image and this was the first one to come up, props to co-inspiration!
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