Terry and his daughter StellaTerry's Action In Support of Occupy Movement.
Terry Mollner, since 1973 Founder, Chair, and Executive Director of Trusteeship Institute, Inc., views the tent city activity of the Occupy Wall Street Movement around the world as an effort to demonstrate both for themselves and others that we are ready for a post-capitalism-socialist era.
What is this new era
Edward O. Wilson, the 81-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning biology professor at Harvard University who is also considered the second Charles Darwin, wrote an article in the August 2010Nature journal with two others. In it they declared that they now believe cooperation is the third leg of evolution, along with survival of the fittest and mutations. It is the only pattern of relationship that can explain how single cell organisms could form multicellular organisms, they can form animals, and humans can form elaborate cooperative societies.
The new era is a society based on the end of the naïveté that competition is fundamental in nature and that the common good is in conflict with self-interest. It is the end of the capitalist ideal being in conflict with the socialist ideal. We are now entering the next era where we understand that the universe is one indivisible whole, cooperation is fundamental in nature, and moral behavior is when we mature to where we “freely choose to give priority to the common good.” When prioritized this way they, individual freedom and the common good, naturally and effortlessly cooperate with and enhance each other. We experience the fulfillment of both simultaneously. It is this that defines the new era
On this website you will be able to soon read Terry’s latest books (without a cost here, or you can order them) that fully explain this new era, The Love Skill: We Are Mastering the 7 Layers of Human Maturity, the long and short versions, and The Golden 8: The Journal of What I Learned on My 40 Day Water Fast. Learn more about Terry Mollner.
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COMING SOON TO TERRY’S BLOG: SUGGESTIONS OF NEW ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE COMMON GOOD ERA:
- How Anyone Can Create Their Own Job of Service Now (IRS approved)(coming soon)
- How We Can Easily Create and Fund the World's First Membership Directed Endowment Fund to Loan to Local Small Businesses and Non-Profits (coming soon)
- How to Create Our Own Nation by Agreement Rather than Geography That Anyone Can Join or Leave at Anytime Now (coming soon)
- How We Can in the Private Sector Create a Trust Fund, Eventually, for Every Child at Birth (coming soon)
- Pretty Stones, Inc.: The Legal Currency Equivalent We Can Create on the Internet (coming soon)
ABOUT TERRY MOLLNER
Terry Mollner, Ed.D., is Founder, Chair, and Executive Director of Trusteeship Institute, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm founded in 1973 based on the economic theories of Mahatma Gandhi. It focuses on the development of socially responsible businesses. He was one of the founders of the Calvert Socially Responsible Investment Fund, the first such fund with the full panoply of social screens. Today it is the largest family of such funds with nearly $7 billion under management. He also provided leadership to create the Calvert Foundation that is pioneering "community investment" - investment to end poverty - as another new asset class in the professional investment community. It currently manages over $200 million and has just launched a program to make its note available to over 300 million EBay and Pay Pal customers. Dr. Mollner is on the board of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., the United Way of Hampshire County, Inc., a fellow of the World Business Academy, a member of the Social Venture Network, and a founder and member of Business Association of Local Living Economies (BALLE) of the Pioneer Valley. He was also one of the founders of Spirit In Business, Inc. in the USA. He has written numerous articles and books, particularly on the Mondragon Cooperatives, and is currently working on a book entitled The Love Skill: It Determines How We Experience Everything Else and How We Change Our World.
Selling Without Selling Out
The Duopoly Movement in the Corporate Community & No Law Needs to Be Passed for Corporations to Give Priority to Being Moral: Giving Priority to the Common Good And Second Priority to Profits (8 mins)
Lessons From Founders of Socially Responsible Businesses Bought by Multinationals (2 mins)
In May 2008, at Aspen Meadows Conference Center in Aspen, CO, Trusteeship Institute and Aspen Institute held a small conference of some of the founders of socially responsible businesses that had been bought by multinationals. Each founder was interviewed by Terry Mollner to discover how they sustained their social policies and what more, in hindsight, they wish they had done. To watch Terry Mollner’s opening and closing remarks, each interview, or the other sessions, click on the one of your choice in the right hand menu.
Executive Producers: Suzanne Biegel and Terry Mollner
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From Terry's Blog
Videos of Presentations of
SWSO Speakers
- Opening Remarks by Terry Mollner, A Founder
of the Calvert Social Investment Funds - Seth Goldman, Founder of Honest Tea
bought by Coca Cola - Gary Hirshberg, Founder of Stonyfield Farm
bought by Danone - Judy Wicks, Owner & Founder of White Dog Cafe
- Terry Mollner & Wayne Silby, two of the founders of the Calvert Social Investment Funds
- Frederick Schilling, Founder of Dagoba Chocolate bought by Hersheys
- Greg Steltenpohl, Founder of Odwalla
bought by Coca Cola - Brian Johnson, Founder of Zaadz bought by Gaia
- Pierre Ferrari, Chair of Ben & Jerry’s bought by Unilever
- Steve Demos, Founder of White Wave
bought by Dean Foods - Closing Remarks by Terry Mollner