Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is an internationally known scholar, futurist, and activist, best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. She is the President of the Center for Partnership Studies, co-founder of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), and The Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE). Her forthcoming book The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (2007) applies her research to policies that work for people and the Earth.Videos featuring Riane Eisler
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Human Yearning for Caring Connection
Scholar, futurist and activist Riane Eisler explains how interconnectedness is not only a spiritual notion but is rooted in biology itself: the "human yearning for care and connection" develops if supported by the environment.
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Caring Economics
Scholar, futurist, and activist Riane Eisler explains the potential of an economic system based on caring rather than domination. By giving economic value to life-sustaining activities like parenting, an economics of caring provides a more realistic view of human life and suggests policy that is more coherent with human nature.
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"We have that yearning, and it's an understanding on a deep, visceral level, that in essence, we are all interconnected with one another as human beings."
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