Power to the people
For “economic artist” Donna Morton, sharing power in its many forms is essential to a healthy community. Donna Morton imagines a scene taking place in the near future in the Hesquiaht community on Vancouver Island’s west coast. A wind tower, adorned by local carvers, stands tall behind the beautiful new school in Hot Springs Cove. […]
Donna Morton’s mission: reconciling prosperity, social justice and environmental integrity
Donna Morton, founder and executive director of the Victoria-BC-based Centre for Integral Economics, has been passionately working on environmental issues for a quarter of a century. “I started thinking in terms of stopping things going wrong, stopping destruction. It was the work where you’re basically saying no to things that are harming people in the […]
Invisible Voices: Women living in Poverty
Poverty is a woman’s issue both domestic and internationally;women not only make up over half of the world’s population but are also much more likely than men to experience homelessness and poverty. While there is a huge difference when of poverty is talked about in a first world country as opposed to poverty in a […]
But, Who Speaks For Me
Something that I’ve began to wonder about is if the black woman has lost her power? Have we settled for society’s need to conform and cluster black women altogether? Have we stepped back from the days when we asked questions and demanded answers?! I may be somewhat blunt and extremely critical, but let’s be honest black women […]
Pay Inequality~ battle of the sexes or family empowerment! ER
Politicians, social scientist, gender specialists and feminist have been discussing and debating about gender pay inequity for decades. However the bottom line remains is unchanged, men still earn more than woman. According to an article written by Claudia Goldin entitled “Change the Gender Pay Gap, Change the Way We Work”, published in Bloomberg News, as […]
Parenting in a GLOBAL CULTURE
My goal was to interview at least four Asian mothers (see below why I chose Asian families), and I have the honor of dialoguing with four Asian daughters. To my surprise, the results of the interviews were exactly what I expected. For the last couple of years, there have been many dialogues, articles, etc. written […]