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Hi Gang - Here are some ideas for your summer reading pleasure. I have read most but not all.  Please let us know your favorites, too!


Creating a World Without Poverty - Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, by Muhammad Yunus


Ripples from the Zambezi by Ernesto Sirolli 

 

Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer


Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
    by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers


The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World, by John Elkington, Pamela             Hartigan, and Klaus Schwab

 

Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity by Stuart L. Hart and Al Gore

 

 The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and so Little Good by William Easterly


John Mackey's (Whole Foods Market CEO) ideas about Conscious Capitalism: http://www.flowidealism.org/2007/Ideas/ideas-capitalism.html

 

 

 

if you want to get Shamalama this summer, (great whether you are backpacking in India or floating around Barton Springs ) 


1. The Power of Now and A New Earth, both by Ekhart Tolle

3. Stephen Mitchell's translations of Bhagavad Gita and Tao Te Ching