The Economics of Well-Being

#34. February 27, 2020. My friend Lewis Cardinal is a great story teller. Lewis is from the Woodland Cree Nation of Sucker Creek in northern Alberta. He shares his stories (passed down by elders) of the origins of Canada (Kanata meaning 'pure or sacred place' in the Cree-Algonquin language) and Edmonton, one of the great pehonan (the waiting/gathering place) along the Saskatchewan river systems. L...

#33. February 16, 2020. Greg Dewling is the CEO of Capital Region Housing Corporation (CRHC) based in Edmonton, Alberta, the largest affordable housing program in Alberta serving over 25,000 Albertans or 9,000 low-income families in the Edmonton region. Greg is a former pastor/minister from Newfoundland.  I worked with Greg and his team two years ago to integrate well-being impact measurement...

#32. February 4, 2020. Stef Kuypers joins me from Antwerp, Belgium exploring the fascinating world of money and his proposed new sustainable money system. Could changing our global money system save our planet and our lives? Stef if one of the founders of Happonomy.org . His TEDx talk in Antwerp posted on the nature of money and his proposed sustainable money system is a must-see for anyone intere...

#31. January 21, 2020. Christian Sinclair is the leader, or Onekanew in Cree (an alternative name for 'chief), of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation located in The Pas, Manitoba, a community of 6.200 people located 6 hours north of Winnipeg. I met Christian at the first Indigenomics conference in Vancouver in May 2019. He purchased a copy of my book and called me 2 days later noting that my vision for an...

#30. December 5, 2019. Dr. Philip Clayton is my next special guest. Philip and I discuss the concept of an ecological civilization. He and I have recently returned from Seoul, Korea where we were the guests of Seoul's Mayor Park Won-Soon presenting at a major conference to discuss how Korea might adopt the concept of an 'ecological civilization' which Philip along with John Cobb Jr. and others hav...

#29. May 5, 2019. Tami Hay joins me again for a more in-depth conversation about her insights into health, the ecology of our 'gut', eating a plant-based diet, the importance of soil health, the amazing work of Dr. Zach Bush,  as well as a brief inquiry into the Essenes, a Jewish community that once existed during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st ce...

#28. November 20, 2019. Following the Canadian national elections on October 21, 2019, economist Mark Anielski has prepared this fictional well-being budget and speech for 2020-21. The idea of a Well-being Budget for Canada is based on New Zealand's recent Well-being Budget 2019 tabled by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her coalition Government of New Zealand in May 2019. This proposed budget sp...

#27. November 16, 2019. David Dodge is the producer and host of  Green Energy Futures , a multimedia storytelling project which has now been running over 7 years sharing stories about the  clean - energy  revolution in Canada and around the world. As an environmental journalist, he produced more than 350 Ecofile episodes for the CKUA Radio network (Alberta), edited Borealis magazine...

#26. October 30, 2019. Tami Hay joins me in conversation from her log-home just east of Edmonton to talk about food as medicine. Tami, a former social worker, is a Spiritual Massage Therapist with 20-years of experience. Tami has been successful in  transcended years of debilitating and painful digestive challenges, including Crohn's disease, by learning how the food we eat is critical to our...

#25. October 23, 2019. Dr. John Cobb Jr. (94) presents his ideas at the October 2019 Ecological Civilization conference held in Seoul, South Korea (October 1-3, 2019) on how countries like China and Korea can transition from the current industrial civilization to a new Ecological Civilization. I also attended this important conference presenting my ideas on how Korea can adopt new measures of prog...

#24. October 13, 2019. My next guest is Walt McCree with the US-based Public Banking Institute (and Associates). Walt and I discuss the importance of this weeks decision of California's State Governor Gavin Newsom that allows California cities and counties to create their own public banks, making the state one of just two (after North Dakota in 1919 and the province of Alberta (Canada) in 1938) to...

#23. June 23, 2019.   Ellen Brown  is the founder of the Public Banking Institute,  a Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles.  She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles.  In the best-selling  Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she turned those skills to an analysis of the...

#22. June 10. 2019. Tim Nash is the founder of  Good Investing  and blogs as  The Sustainable Economist . As an expert on socially responsible investing, impact investing, and the green economy, he is regularly featured in publications such as CBC’s The National , BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call , and the Globe and Mail . He earned his BA in Economics from Dalhousie University (Canada)...

 #21. April 25, 2019. Takota Coen is one of Canada's youngest and innovative pioneering permaculture farmers. Takota along with his family farm 250 acres of prime agriculture land just east of Ponoka Alberta near Red Deer Lake. https://www.coenfarm.ca/ They practice a form of land stewardship called Permaculture.  Permaculture is a set of design principles centered around  whol...

#20. Jacqueline Cardinal is a gifted young (28) indigenous woman. Jacqueline was recently named as one of the top people under 40, along with her brother Hunter Cardinal (24), by Avenue Magazine. Jacqueline is a serial entrepreneur. She is the co-owner and Managing Director of Naheyawin, and indigenous owned and operated consulting firm that creates and searches for tools to assist indigenous and...

#19. January 17, 2019. Carol Anne Hilton is one of the leading First Nations thinkers and leaders in Canada. Her concept of 'indigenomics' is gaining more attention in Canada and around the world. In 2018 she launched the Indigenomics Institute, the leading research, education, and engagement platform for supporting the rebuilding  and design of Indigenous economies of Indigenous peoples worl...

#18, December 22, 2018 My next special guest is Lil MacPherson, a businesswoman and restaurateur based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lil is the the co-founder of the Wooden Monkey restaurant. I first met Lil in Halifax in 2007 when she hosted a book salon in her restaurant for my first book, The Economics of Happiness. The Wooden Monkey believes that sustainable agriculture protects our environment, pu...

#17. December 18, 2018. What would an economy of well-being for Alberta look like? Author Mark Anielski outlines his vision for a new economic future for Alberta.

#16. December 16, 2018. Bonnier Trottier, a former child-care social worker and Valleyview community coordinator, has been a major part of the fledgling Valleyview Well-being Coalition. Bonnie was asked by Town Manager, Marty Paradine, to become a key architect of the Coalition as part of her applied studies in community planning at McEwan University (Edmonton). Bonnie was instrumental as a connec...

#15. December 11, 2018. Suza Singh is a remarkable women. Suza is an action film maker originally from Manchester UK living in Calgary, Alberta. She has some bold ideas about this interesting genre of film and casts women as modern action heros. Her recent film, Replican, cast her own daughter. We spoke about how to present ideas like well-being and soul craft in film.

#14. December 10, 2018. John Cobb Jr. is one of world's most important theologians of our era; a master of Alfred North Whitehead's process theology. At 93-years of age Cobb's mind is remarkably sharp. His wisdom is unparalleled. He joined me today from his home in Claremont, California to talk about his most recent journey to China and South Korea, where he gave 14 public addresses on the subject...

#13. November 5, 2018. Peter Block, a 78-year-old master of public sector governance consulting and someone passionate about communities, joins me from Cincinnati on a far-ranging, wisdom-filled conversation. Peter has been my mentor and friend. He has been working with John McKnight and Walter Brueggemann on the Economics of Compassion and the Jubilee Project in Cincinnati.

#12. September 19, 2018. Author John McKnight joins me today in a special interview about his legacy of work as a community organizer. His work inspired me to think about community assets differently; assets are the diversity of gifts, skills and competencies we all have to share with others without compensation for money. McKnight is the author of The Careless Society, a classic critique of profe...

#11. August 22, 2018. Legendary Old Testament scholar, theologian and teacher Walter Brueggemann joins me today from his home in Michigan to talk about his life's work and his new book A Gospel of Hope. At 85 years of age, Brueggemann is one of the most important voices of our age reminding us of the importance of embracing the truth of abundance and challenging the dominant economic paradigm of s...

#10. August 17, 2018. Robert Dellner, a London-based investment banker, impact investment expert and master of credit risk, joins me on my show exploring new avenues for impact investment that would take a well-being perspective. Robert joined me from his home in Woking just south of London.