Category Archives: Ethics & Economics

A collection of articles by Dr. P.K. Willey on Earth Ethics and current topics, authored to bring Ethics and Economics into harmony.

Four Waters System of Hanumantha Rao!

Gandhi was so concerned with sustainable water conservation management, that in his intentional communities he set an example by collecting the outhouse urine in the mornings to do the first rinse on the night-soil pots!  He also studied organic gardening in experiments going on in Indore, MP, that were to later inspire the Organic Gardening Magazine of the Rodale Press, here in the USA. Being a Gardener Continue reading →

Principles and Guidelines for Starting and Running an Organization by Kerstin Utas

Business and education are two huge forces propelling individuals and society into action. In trying to understand the right role of business, and righteous business creation, we have uncovered many gems, and found new paths.

In life, we meet so many heroines and heroes.  We had the great fortune to meet Kerstin Utas (1946 – 2013), whom we fondly called Justine, as justice seemed so much part of her nature and personality. Justine was part of the initial working group in Sweden that started Humana People to People.

She was a person devoted to action, to getting things done, rather than time wasting, shoulder-patting committee meetings.

I only knew her for the last 10 years of her life, and recognized always that I was in the company of someone with great depths, with much to offer, as yet, unexpressed.  We sought out her thinking in India, and later in Sweden, on business creation that would have as its goal the upliftment of society.  At my urging, she wrote down the guidelines and principles that she and her friends humbly followed to create Humana People to People, now a multinational organization.

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