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Usury is the sin that commodifies people and planet
by Kevin Jones
Interest payments are designed as a way to transfer money from the poor to the rich. That system of interest, compounded, requires exponential growth and the commodification of people and nature. There is no morality governing the money put in the first pocket by a two pocket thinker; he is doing what the system demandsContinue ...What is Blended Finance and Is It Needed?
by Anthony Randazzo
Interest in blended finance, it seems, is growing in popularity. Having personally designed and invested in multiple transactions involving blended finance structures, I felt it was time to take a step back from my usual discussion topics and describe what blended finance is, what conditions should be met for it to work well, and delveContinue ...Design for the Climate Crisis: A 4-Step Framework
by The TransformSeries
By Raz Godelnik Let’s face it. We have a design problem when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. We have good ideas (Project Drawdown), but we fail quite miserably when it comes to actually implement them. It is time to consider a different design approach that is implementation-oriented and is serious about context andContinue ...Take a stand.
by Kevin Jones
That's the theme of the Transform/Neighborhood Economics conference next Spring in the Twin Cities. Continue ...Designing a Biocultural Diversity Fund
by Kevin Jones
If I were designing a fund to create wealth and culturally relevant assets in indigenous cultures while also making money and paying investors, it might look like this. Or at least, this is the first look.Continue ...