JAMES ROBERTSON'S NEWSLETTER
No 14, February 2008

Dear Eric,

My latest newsletter is now out and can be read in full at:

http://www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm

This email gives a short description of its contents.

1. "The Sane Alternative: A Choice of Futures".

The text of the revised (1983) edition of this book, including
a new five-page 2008 Preface, can now be downloaded from my
website.

As the new Preface says, looking back 25 years - and to the
first edition, 30 years - it is humbling to reflect how slowly
the world has moved toward the "SHE" (Sane, Humane,
Ecological) path into the future, and how fast we have gone
down the path toward "Disaster".

But, looking forward, it is still possible to hope. Changing
to a new direction of development based on principles of
"enable and conserve" is now becoming more obviously urgent
every day.

2. Ethical Volunteering.

A conflict of values in the workplace between ethical
volunteers and conventional employees could help to discredit
the conventional wisdom that useful work has to be organised
by employers. Read the Germane Society's report.

3. Business in Society and Environment.

A "new wave of social businesses" is envisaged by Nobel Prize
winner Mohammed Yunus, and Peter Reason talks about the
ecological aspect of "Transforming Education" in the context
of the MSc course in "Responsibility and Business Practice" at
Bath University.

There is also a note on "social entrepreneurs".

4. The Money System.

A short reflection on alternative currencies is followed by:
my article in the latest "Quarterly Review" on Northern Rock
and the current financial crisis; a recent proposal for a
joint popular/parliamentary movement for money system reform;
and two initiatives on Land Value Taxation to celebrate the
centenary of the Lloyd George budget of 1909.

Belated best wishes for 2008

James Robertson

8th February, 2008


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