SLOVENIA
The Emergence of an
INTEGRAL GREEN ECONOMY
Prof. Ronnie Lessem & Prof. Alexander Schieffer
Co-Founders TRANS4M Center for Integral Development
www.trans-4-m.com
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1 June 2015
MANY STILL HOLD: TINA !!!
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO
CAPITALISM
North
TINA !
West
Western (Anglo-Saxon)
Neoliberal Economic
Paradigm
=
Economic Mainstream
?
?
?
Examples for “Variations of the Capitalistic Theme”
- Bill Gates, Microsoft & Warren Buffet: Creative Capitalism South
- Richard Branson, Virgin Group: Enlightened (Gaia) Capitalism
- Neville Isdell, former CEO Coca Cola: Connected Capitalism
Communism
East
OLD ECONOMIC PARADIGM
NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM
Monocultural and Mechanistic One-World Perspective
Transcultural and Systemic Four-Worlds Perspective
TINA: ‘There is no Alternative’ to Western Capitalism
‘Western’
Capitalism
‘Eastern’
Communism
‘There are real Alternatives’
Integral Approach to Economics
North
Rationalism
GROWTH
POLICY
AUSTERITY
POLICY
Science &
Technology
North = Rich
Center
West
Pragmatism
South = Poor
Finance &
Enterprise
Religion &
Humanity
Culture &
Spirituality
East
Holism
Moral
Core
Neoliberal
Anglo-Saxon
Capitalism
Keynesianism
Nature &
Community
South
Humanism
‘Ugly Face’
of Capitalism
(Tiny Rowlands)
Creative
Capitalism
(Bill Gates)
etc.
Towards a viable integral economic Perspective that
works dynamically with the Richness and Diversity of
the whole Variety of economic Approaches of all Four
Worlds and the Center (culturally and archetypally),
and by building on the inner Foundations of each each
living System (e.g. Nature & Community in the South).
TRANSFORMING OUR ECONOMY, INTEGRALLY
ON A MACRO LEVEL: THE INTEGRAL ECONOMY
SOCIAL
knowledge-based
ECONOMY
Science &
Technology
Moral
LIVING
life-based
ECONOMY
Finance &
Enterprise
Religion & Humanity
Core
Nature &
Community
SELF-SUFFICIENT
community-based
ECONOMY
Culture &
Spirituality
DEVELOPMENTAL
culture-based
ECONOMY
SOUTH
Nature &
Community
GLOBAL PRACTICAL EXAMPLE FOR
SOUTHERN COMMUNITY BASED ECONOMICS OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY
GRAMEEN / A SOCIAL BUSINESS
Practical Effect of the Self-Sufficient Economy
Southern Theme: Profits to Profiting Society
YUNUS: We have created a one-dimensional human being to play the
role of business leader, the so-called entrepreneur. We have insulated
him or her from the rest of life, the religious, emotional, political and
social.
The micro-credit movement, which is built around and for and with
money, ironically, at its heart, at its deepest root, is not about money at
all. It is about helping each person achieve his or her fullest potential.
It is not about cash capital, but about human capital.
Sources: Mohammad Yunus: Banker of the Poor
SOCIAL BUSINESS
A World without Poverty: Poverty is not created
by the Poor, but by the Socio-Economic Structures
EAST
Culture &
Consciousness
GLOBAL PRACTICAL EXAMPLE FOR
EASTERN CULTURE BASED DEVELOPMENTAL ECONOMY
CANON / A DEVELOPMENTAL ENTERPRISE
Eastern Theme: Survival to Co-Evolution
Canon’s former Chairman Ryuzaburu Kaku:
It is our obligation as business leaders to join together to build a
foundation for world peace and prosperity.’
Kyosei (co-existence or co-evolution), as exemplified in the Canon case,
is a never-ending process of conscious evolution
Kyosei –
Corporate Philosophy of CANON
DEVELOPMENTAL ENTERPRISE
• Co-Evolutionary Stages: Shows how a Company practicing Co-evolution
establishes harmonious Relations with its Customers, Suppliers and
Competitors, as well as with the Government with which it deals, and the
natural Environment.
NORTH
Science &
Technolog
y
GLOBAL PRACTICAL EXAMPLE FOR
NORTHERN KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIAL ECONOMY
MONDRAGON / A COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE
Northern Theme: Enterprise to Democracy
Cooperativism, for Arizmendi, was the third way distinct
from egoistic capitalism and depersonalizing socialism.
Cooperatives for him constituted a new social potential and are
built by those who are neither driven by a myopic and limited
egotism or by a simple gregarious instinct.
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE
• The cooperative Enterprise distinguishes itself from the capitalist,
simply in that the latter utilizes Capital in order to make People
serve it, while the former uses it to make more gratifying and
uplifting the Working Life of the People.
WEST
Finance &
Enterprise
GLOBAL PRACTICAL EXAMPLE FOR
WESTERN LIVING LIFE-BASED ECONOMY
INTERFACE / A SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
Western Theme: Growth to Sustainability
prototypical company of the 21st century
is strongly service oriented, resource-efficient, wasting nothing,
solar-driven, cyclical, strongly connected to its constituencies –
building social equity – its customers and suppliers.’
‘The
Ray Anderson
SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
• The Sustainable Enterprise is a restorative Enterprise, modeled after Nature
(often inspired by Biomimicry); it puts back more than its take out from the
Earth.
• A Strategy to achieve that is: reduce, reuse, reclaim, recycle and redesign.
• Social Equity and environmental Stewardship are given their natural
Places alongside economic Progress.
Towards an
Integral Green
Economy of
Slovenia
Science, Systems & Technology
Knowledge based
Social Economy
Emergent
Transsectoral
Cooperation
Theme: Enterprise to Democracy
Example:
Domel
Culture & Consciousness
Finance & Enterprise
Life Based
Living Economy
Theme: Growth to Sustainability
Example:
Pipistrel
BC NAKLO
(Catalytic
Education &
Knowledge
Creation)
Nature & Community
Community based
Economics of Self Sufficiency
Theme: Profits to Profiting Society
Example:
Sentrupert Municipality
Culture based
Developmental Economy
Theme: Survival to Coevoiution
Example:
Heart of Slovenia
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TRANS4M Center for Integral Development
Geneva Switzerland
www.trans-4-m.com
Prof. Ronnie Lessem
[email protected]
Prof. Alexander Schieffer
[email protected]