In our society, many things have worked well for a long time, so there’s no need to keep reinventing the wheel. At Arizmendi Ecovillage, we are including many of these, like cohousing for social sustainability and ecovillage for neighborhoods that are ecologically sustainable as well. Of course, they need to work economically too, so we […]

Thanks to a cadre of senior Republican statesmen, carbon taxes and dividends are now being discussed in the halls of power, pool halls, barrooms and bedrooms across America and around the world. The idea is to get a handle on climate change quickly by putting a fee on carbon based fuels at the mine, wellhead […]

Last month we talked about how we are building a total motivation culture at Arizmendi Ecovillage. So what, you might ask, does that have to do with aging? The answer of course is everything. We have the same positive motivators of play, purpose and potential and the same negative ones of economic pressure, social pressure […]

What if it were possible to build communities that work for everyone with no one left out and with no offense to Nature? Thanks to the science of total motivation and ecological design, it now is possible. So far total motivation has been studied and applied primarily in the business environment. (Read the book Primed […]