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localfuture.org Stephanie Mills is an author, lecturer and longtime bioregionalist. Her books include Tough Little Beauties, Epicurean Simplicity, and In Service of the Wild. Her new book, On Gandhi's Path: Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics appeared in spring of 2010.
Since her emergence in 1969 as an ecological activist Mills has written prolifically, edited numerous periodicals, participated in countless conferences and served on the boards and advisory committees of dozens of ecologically oriented organizations from the local to national level.
Stephanie Mills talk was delivered to the 2010 International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy, and Environment organized by Local Future nonprofit and directed by Aaron Wissner.
localfuture.org Stephanie Mills is an author, lecturer and longtime bioregionalist. Her books include Tough Little Beauties, Epicurean Simplicity, and In Service of the Wild. Her new book, On Gandhi's Path: Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics appeared in spring of 2010.
Since her emergence in 1969 as an ecological activist Mills has written prolifically, edited numerous periodicals, participated in countless conferences and served on the boards and advisory committees of dozens of ecologically oriented organizations from the local to national level.
Stephanie Mills talk was delivered to the 2010 International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy, and Environment organized by Local Future nonprofit and directed by Aaron Wissner.




![Daniel Quinn 2012 Home Library Tour | Ishmael, The Story of B | Aaron Wissner | Local Future
Daniel Quinn, writer, and author of best selling philosophical novel Ishmael (1992), shares his home library with Aaron Wissner of Local Future in a home visit. In 1991, Ishmael won the $500,000 [Ted] Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best unpublished work of fiction offering creative and positive solutions to global problems. Wissner traveled to Houston to spend three days interviewing Daniel Quinn, August 17-19, 2012, in lieu of Daniel traveling to Michigan for Aarons Local Future conference.
About Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn (1935-2018) grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Prep in 1953. He studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, cum laud, in 1957.
During a twenty-year career in educational and consumer publishing in Chicago, he served as Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia, managing editor of the Greater Cleveland Mathematics Program (Science Research Associates), head of the mathematics department at Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Executive Editor of Fuller & Dees Publishing (a division of the Times Mirror Corporation) and Editorial Director of the Society for Visual Education (a division of the Singer Corporation).
Mr. Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and has been made available in more than 25 languages. Throughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level.
He followed Ishmael with an autobiography, Providence (1994), The Story Of B (1996), a novel that continues the philosophical and religious exploration begun in Ishmael; and My Ishmael: A Sequel (1997), in which it’s learned that, unbeknownst to the narrator of Ishmael, Ishmael was working with another pupil, a twelve-year-old girl.
For more biography, visit this page:
https://www.ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/about/formal-daniel-quinn-biography/
Links about Daniel Quinn
https://www.ishmael.org/
https://rmqabstracts.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Race
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Tomorrow_Fellowship_Award
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ishmael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Civilization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence:_The_Story_of_a_Fifty-Year_Vision_Quest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dachau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamer_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_They_Give_You_Lined_Paper,_Write_Sideways
http://www.friendsofishmael.org/
http://www.readishmael.com/
Biography
https://www.ishmael.org/books/
(1988) Dreamer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 9781481850063
(1992) Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553375407
(1996) The Story of B, Bantam, ISBN 0553379011
(1996) Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest (autobiography), Bantam, ISBN 0553375490
(1997) My Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553379658
(1997) A Newcomers Guide to the Afterlife (with Tom Whalen), Bantam, ISBN 0553379798
(1999) An Animist Testament (audio cassette of Quinn reading The Tales of Adam and The Book of the Damned)
(2000) Beyond Civilization, Broadway Books, ISBN 0609805363
(2001) The Man Who Grew Young (graphic novel with Tim Eldred), Context, ISBN 1893956172
(2001) After Dachau, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952155
(2002) The Holy, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952147
(2005) Tales of Adam, Steerforth, ISBN 1586420747
(2006) Work, Work, Work, Steerforth, ISBN
(2007) If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways, Steerforth, ISBN 1586421263
(2010) Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. (chapter) Nelson, Michael P. and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds.). Trinity University Press, ISBN 9781595340665
(2012) At Woomeroo, CreateSpace, ISBN 1477599975
(2014) The Invisibility of Success, CreateSpace, ISBN 1494930935
(2014)The Teachings, CreateSpace, ISBN 1502356155
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
http://aaronwissner.com/
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
https://www.youtube.com/user/newculture
https://lifeishnowish.blogspot.com/
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![What is money? The Future of Money with Thomas Greco & Aaron Wissner | Local Future
Thomas H. Greco Jr., author of The End of Money and the Future of Civilization, and Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender discusses money, exchange, what needs to happen in the future, and how to democratize the money, credit, and the exchange of value.
What is money? Where does it come from? Is gold money? What is the essence of money? What are the alternatives to it?
Midway through, Aaron poses a question on a possible way to exchange goods in a peer-to-peer manner, which leads to a deeper level of understanding regarding the essence of money.
Whats important is that we find ways to reduce our dependence on mega-structures; to find ways to relocalize our economies, to decentralize power; to work together in cooperation to make our communities more resilient, more self reliant, and more able to withstand the predations of large government, large corporations, and large organizations.
Links on Thomas H. Greco Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Greco_Jr.
https://beyondmoney.net/about/
https://beyondmoney.net/
https://reinventingmoney.com/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL70F023FD1CB9A7ED
https://www.community-exchange.org/docs/Greco%20MoneyEbook.pdf [A sample from his book]
https://ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/NMfHC/
http://www.gdrc.org/icm/greco/improve.html [A chapter from his Money… book]
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help people, and humans as a whole, to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
http://aaronwissner.com
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
https://www.youtube.com/user/newculture
https://lifeishnowish.blogspot.com/
Connections: Thomas Greco - and - Steve Keen
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Thomas%20H.%20Greco%20Jr.&target=Steve%20Keen
Connections: Steve Keen Thomas Greco
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Steve%20Keen&target=Thomas%20H.%20Greco%20Jr.
Irving Fisher, Karl Marx, Jeremy Corbyn
Connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
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