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Suggested Books
These books are authored by or include our Co-Founders & Directors, Alanna and Annie.
The Earth Belongs to Everyone
This book sets forth the vision and policy foundation for no less than a new form of democracy -- "earth rights democracy." Following an introduction containing glimpses of the author's fascinating journey through life, this compilation of her articles and essays describes how to establish political-economic systems based on the human right to the planet as a birthright. Her main point is that earth rights democracy is an essential ethical basis necessary to secure other economic human rights and to create a world of peace and plenty for all.
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Leading from Within
by Sam M. Intrator
Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work.
Read what Annie Geoke says about Winston O. Abbott's "Let me remember".
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Fire Up Your Brilliance
This user-friendly book gives 10 tangible ways that will deeply energize readers from the inside out, giving them what they need to engage enthusiastically in the hyper-speed dotcom world where change happens in a nano-second.
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More Suggested Readings
When Corporations Rule the World
The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.
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Riders in the Storm
With the increase of natural disasters, droughts, and superstorms, it's clear that climate change isn't coming--it's here. The ecological crisis of climate change--and how we handle it--is the challenge of this century. Though policy changes or technological advances may help, they're not enough. We are in need of new ways of thinking and acting; new ways of understanding our relationship to the world.
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Earth Rights Institute Articles
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Socializing Land Rent, Untaxing Production
Presentation to 2013 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
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Socializing Land Rent, Untaxing Production - Powerpoint
Presentation to 2013 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
- Building a Local Based Economy
- Claiming the Commons
- The Land Ethic - How to Address Inequality and Financial Instability
- Economics of War and Peace
- Alaska Permanent Fund – Room for Improvement? (2012)
Land Value Rights
- Alaska Permanent Fund: A Model of Resource Rents for Public Investment and Citizen Dividends (winner of McKeever essay contest)
- Citizen Dividends and Oil Resource Rents
- E.F. Schumacher Lecture: Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy
- Earth Rights Democracy -- Land Ethics and Public Finance Policy as if People and Planet Mattered
- Earth Rights Democracy: Public Finance Based On Early Christian Teachings
- Financing Local to Global Public Goods: An Integrated Green Tax Shift Perspective
- Financing Planet Management
- Green Tax Policy: Financing Local-To-Global Public Goods
- Land for People, Not for Profit
- Land Value Taxation And Resource Rent Approach To Financing For Development
- Pennsylvania Farmers and the Split Rate Tax
- Pennsylvania's Success with Local Property Tax Reform -- The Split Rate Tax
- Sharing Our Common Heritage via the Tax Shift Agenda
- The Occupations, The Commons, Fear and Tûrangawaewae
- Weaving the Geo Tapestry