CONTACT: Sanford Hinden [email protected] Skype: Sanford.Hinden 516-815-4967 WHY WE NEED A NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT We need a New Economics Summit that focuses on how to create sustainable, thriving, creative people, families, communities and nature. Everything that does not lead to these is JUNK. We don't need it. We need New Economics Summits to meet to rethink economics. The word “economics” is derived from a Greek word “okionomia,” which means “household management” or “management of house affairs.” The G20 Summits LOOK AT GROWTH, not at pollution. The G20 does not look at the dynamic of weapons sales by all the permanent members of the UN Security Council and how it leads to creating chaos, violence and destruction. They G20 does not look at how robots are making the superwealthy – who own the companies – wealthier, taking away more jobs. The G20 fails to look at crumbling infrastructure. They ignore population and what we will do with billions more people in the future, 9-10 billion by 2050, 15 billion by 2100. Current economic gain is going to the top 1% globally, who own 50% of the world’s wealth, and to the top 10% globally, who own 85% of the world’s wealth, leaving so little for the other 6.4 billion people. The G20 Summits ignore this. NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 1 Many people are not getting a good education, don’t have a good job, and don’t experience a loving family and a healthy community. People need a good education, a good job, a loving family and a healthy, creative community. Companies, countries and investors make money from weapons sales. This shows up as positive in GDP. Weapons salesmen are flooding the world with weapons. Disenfranchised men and women are creating chaos and violence globally in sales of weapons, drugs, sex trafficking, terrorism, piracy and kidnapping. There needs to be is a global systemic study of the interrelatedness of these factors causing people to regress, become dysfunctional, and become involved with extremist causes and violence. To create a sustainable planet, wealthy people around the world need to invest in improving education, job opportunities, sustainable families and sustainable communities. We have to find a way to engage the wealthy who own 85% of the world's wealth to help humanity build Sustainable, Creative Communities where people are productive even though the robots have replaced them in billions of jobs. NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 2 NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 1. Create a list of New Economics theorists and practitioners to invite. 2. Identify Internet broadcast technology expertise for FREE global broadcast of the New Economics Summit. 3. Create budget. 4. Identify sources and obtain funding. 5. Book venue, set the date. 1 Idea NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT To create sustainable, thriving, creative people, families, communities and nature NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 2 Numbers Timetable Budget Seek and Receive Funding 3 Action Book venue Send Invitations Implement program 3 NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 4 INVITATIONS Economics for Conscious, Compassionate, Creative People Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics Economics for Conscious, Compassionate, Creative Families Economics for Conscious, Compassionate, Creative Communities Sanford Hinden, Community Economics The BALLE Localists www.bealocalist.org Economics for a Sustainable Planet Gar Aparwitz www.garalperovitz.com Herman Daly, steadystate.org/category/herman-daly Mark Jaccard, www.rem.sfu.ca/people/faculty/jaccard Hazel Henderson, www.hazelhenderson.com Paul Hawken, www.paulhawken.com David Korten, www.livingeconomiesforum.org Prof. Bill Rees, www.scarp.ubc.ca/people/william-rees Jeremy Rifkin, www.foet.org/JeremyRifkin.htm Jeffrey Sachs, www.jeffsachs.org Joshua Sheridan Fouts, Bioneers www.bioneers.org/what-is-bioneers Joseph Stiglitz, www.policydialogue.org Elizabeth Warren, www.warren.senate.gov Richard D. Wolff, www.rdwolff.com NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 5 THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF ECONOMICS Economics has an impact on the way people think, feel, behave and relate to themselves, each other and nature. Old Economics destroys human character because it values acquisition of money, status, power and things. New Economics supports the continual improvement of human character through cultivation of consciousness, compassion and creativity in the self, family, community and with nature. OLD ECONOMICS NEW ECONOMICS Destroys human character through valuing acquisition of money, status, power and things Supports continual improvement of human character through cultivation of consciousness, compassion and creativity Unfulfilling Education Enlightening Education Game Playing Being Disingenuous Sincerity Authenticity Uncaring Indifferent Caring Kind-heartedness Selfishness Generosity Disrespect Respect Power Hunger Power sharing Co-empowerment Deterioration of people, families, communities and nature Sustainable, thriving, creative people, families, communities and nature NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 6 BAD & GOOD BUSINESS MODELS BAD BUSINESS Excessive executive pay, perks and bonuses Stingy owners use Cost-cutting Companies lay-off people and milk profits GOOD BUSINESS Generous owners and executives Not sharing profits Profit sharing Owners and executives not investing in their people Further training to improve customer service No reinvesting in the company Re-investment in facilities and equipment This all breeds resentment at the bottom and in the middle, undermines customer service, isolates from the community and nature Positive employee attitudes, great customer service, community involvement, care for nature Many people are not conscious, unaware of the evolution of consciousness, and unaware of their feelings and needs Aware of the evolution of consciousness, feelings and needs Some are not compassionate, staying stuck in bitterness, unforgiving, passive aggression, with some very negative and even hostile Compassion, forgiveness, clarity, authenticity, assertiveness, full-expression in constructive ways Some are not creative, are staunch traditionalists, slow to embrace new ideas, adamant and often stubborn Creative and open to new ideas, growth, development and transformation NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 7 Sanford Hinden is a local and global community organizer. He is a workshop leader in communication and relationships and has also helped people through marketing, public relations, fundraising and customer service training programs. Sandy was given an Outstanding Advocate for the Arts Award by the Long Island Arts Council. He was executive director of the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center and the John Lennon Center for Music & Technology at Five Towns College. Sandy has provided Parents Communication Workshops in schools and libraries, and has coordinated health and human service collaborations for schools and social workers for Suffolk County, through Suffolk Community Council. Among many global programs he founded Universal Children's Gardens and the Concert for the Earth at the United Nations in New York. He initiated the Metropolitan Peace Museum project for the NYC metro area, and helped affiliate 50 museums worldwide with the United Nations as the International Network of Peace Museums. Sandy wrote 7 Keys to Love ~ Opening Love’s Door to Joy & Wellbeing, a book on how to use love, compassion and creativity to help people, families, communities, nature and the world thrive. Sandy Hinden is one of the most humane, compassionate, loving human beings I have ever met. He speaks and acts from deep wisdom about what people need – and what the world needs now. I trust him and have learned immensely from him. Ronald Gross Co-chair, University Seminar on Innovation Columbia University The whole world, including Lake Victoria region in Kenya, Africa, is yearning for PEACE. We appreciate your concern to create and work for that peace in this region, and the whole world. This really shows your regard for humanity. Your ability to develop ideas from paper to ACTION is unattainable by many people and cannot be equaled. Solomon Owiti Chairman, Lake Victoria Peace & Sustainability Center Kenya NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 8 SANFORD HINDEN PROJECT AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 2015 Families and Communities Education (FACE) Centers: Skills training to support thriving families and thriving communities through stress-reduction, interpersonal communication, conflictresolution, family creative problem-solving, family goal-setting and community collaboration. The Relationships Forum: Proposing ongoing discussion groups about relationships in libraries. Creativity Retreats: Facilitating sessions in creativity for religious, civic and business organizations. Community Economics: Facilitating an ongoing group to understand methods and programs for economics that help people, families, communities and nature. 2014Present Lake Victoria Peace Center: Providing development consulting to a team in Kenya on Lake Victoria. 2014 The Epic Planetary Challenge: Proposed a video game explaining two different psychologicalinterpersonal-economic models of living. Whole Earth Economics / The Business School for Earth & Humanity: Promoting business and economic models aligned with the Earth and humanity. The Commonwealth for Earth & Humanity: A program to invest in infrastructure, enlightenment of humanity, Earth care and repair, and social harmony to create sustainable families, sustainable communities and a sustainable world. The Earth Solutions Project & Sustainable Communities Inventory & Index: A two-part program developing a global participatory research project via the Internet to solve 28 world problems and promoted the use of a tool for measuring the sustainability of a community. Global Interfaith Alliance for Peace: Proposed organizing full-day interfaith gatherings to affirm peace, featuring morning-to-afternoon workshops in skills for thriving families and thriving communities, and an evening concert for peace. Conversations for Global Demilitarization: Proposed meetings with grassroots organizers, artists, performers, government leaders and military personal to discuss global demilitarization. 2013 Communications Skills for Relationships: Training in communication and collaboration skills for couples. Youth and Parents Communication Skills: Provided workshops in schools and libraries. 2012 The Long Island Expo Center: Proposed developing a tourist destination to include business exposition, a science and technology exhibit center, a center for enlightening entertainment, space for conferences, a global teleconference center and a TEDX recording studio. EARTH 2100: A three-hour briefing on the world of 2100 and what we need to do create sustainable relationships, sustainable families and sustainable communities to create a sustainable world. Topics include population awareness, global demilitarization, and investment in infrastructure, Earth repair and enlightenment of humanity. The Kahlil Gibran Hotel, Garden & Café: Proposed a process, performance piece and development program. 2011 Desalinization Plants & Water Pipelines: Promoted investments to ameliorate rising sea levels and flooding through desalinization and water pipelines for electricity, agriculture, sanitation, drinking and cooking water. NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 9 The Whole Earth Green Group: Facilitated a monthly meeting exploring inner and outer practices for a creative, sustainable planet that works for all. 2010 The African Business & Community Development Corporation (ABCD): Founder. Met with the President of the Pan African Parliament. Investment capital was needed. 2009 7 Keys to Love: Published 7 Keys to Love ~ Opening Love’s Door to Joy & Well-being. 2008 WholeEarthARTS: Founder. Proposed to educate, celebrate and support the appreciation of nature and the adoption of Green principles and practices in our work, schools, communities and homes. Was designed to create an Annual Exhibit, Awards Ceremony and Benefit Performance honoring leaders in the Community, Business World, Environment and the Arts, with proceeds going to deserving organizations in the community, environment, peacemaking and the arts. 2005-10 Long Island Men’s Center: Founder. Facilitated monthly meetings to help men with health, character development for young men, work, economic development, gangs, re-entry of formerly incarcerated men into society, consciousness raising, communication, relationship skills, community service and mentoring. 2005 Lakota Youth Arts Center: Founding Advisory Council Member for youth arts. 2003 Peace Partnership International: Development plan written. PPI partially funded educational programs for the US Department of Peace Campaign. Pentagon Meditation Club: Wrote proposal for International Transformation Training. Peace Makers Institute: Prepared a development plan. 2002-14 Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts & John Lennon Center for Music & Technology, Five Towns College: Executive Director, coordinated performances, marketing, public relations and fundraising. 2000 International Network of Museums for Peace: Helped affiliate more than 50 peace museums worldwide with the United Nations. 1998-00 Community Partners for Coordinated Services at Suffolk Community Council: Project Director. Reorganized a countywide collaboration for health, human service and school social workers for at-risk children and families for Suffolk County, New York. 1995-98 Metropolitan Peace Museum Project: Founder for the New York City area. 1985 The Concert for the Earth: Initiated a concert with The Paul Winter Consort and Chorus for the UN Environment Program. Recorded at the United Nations. 1979-85 Universal Children's Gardens: Founder. Fostered 135 community gardens in 17 countries. Nongovernmental organization representative to The UN Tree Project for International Youth Year. 1976-78 Community Organizing: As a resident, organized parents and children to take care of community gardens and establish recreation programs in Mitchell Gardens housing cooperative, Queens, New York. NEW ECONOMICS SUMMIT 10
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