Hawk's View
from this side of Frog Pond Holler
We humans, with our extraordinary capacity for choice, are a product of this wondrous process. In our species’ immaturity, however, our dominant cultures have forgotten that our individual and collective well-being depends on the well-being of the whole. We must now step to a new level of species maturity, redesign the culture and institutions of our economic system to mimic the structure and dynamics of the biosphere, and learn to live by life’s rules. It is an epic test of our human capacity for learning, creative innovation, self-organization, and individual and collective choice. The following are three defining characteristics of the living systems our human economies must emulate.
