Author to discuss sustainability issues affecting Hawai’i

David Korten, author of the best seller “When Corporations Rule the World,” will this week share his views on how global warming, oil prices and worldwide environmental issues affect Hawai’i.

Korten, a veteran of development work in Asia, Africa and Latin America and Harvard Business School professor, will meet with community groups, politicians and religious groups to address sustainability issues and depleting natural resources, said Puanani Burgess, co-organizer for the visit.

“He takes the historic, economic and political approach and creates a framework to analyze our issues and figure out how we go forward,” Burgess said. “David is piercing the old paradigm that holds us in prison.”

Korten also authored “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community,” which introduced the concepts of “Empire” and “Earth Community” as two contrasting models for organizing human affairs: Empires organize by domination and an earth community organizes by partnership.

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