Cosimo Authors Hazel Henderson & Louis Bohtlingk on Radio Show

Mitchell Rabin from www.abetterworld.tv recently interviewed Cosimo Authors Hazel Henderson & Louis Bohtlingk about Bohtlingk's book Dare To Care.

In a round table discussion,  Bohtlingk and Henderson reviewed how to re-create a health relationship with money and re-design our thinking and actions around money to be life-affirming and used sacredly instead of as a weapon.

To listen to the full radio interview, or read the transcript, please visit A Better World.

About Louis Bohtlingk

Bohtlingk is a visionary who has worked as a counselor for more than 30 years. With his wife Sandra, he has created multiple platforms with which to address the money issues that individuals and companies experience. Louis is also the creator of the "Meeting the Mystery of Money" workshop, which has been held throughout the U.S., the U.K., and the Netherlands and helps individuals to reorganize their finances and lives with a care-first approach. You can learn more about the work Louis and Sandra do on their website, www.carefirstworld.com. 

About Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, president of Ethical Markets Media, is a futurist, evolutionary economist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, among other books. She leads the Transforming Finance initiative, created the Green Transition Scoreboard, co-developed with Calvert the GDP alternative now renamed the Ethical Markets Quality of Life Indicators and co-organized the Beyond GDP conference for the European Commission. In 2010, 2012 and 2013, she was honored as one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior" by Trust Across America. In 2012, she was named to the Post Growth Institute (En)Rich List as a top 100 luminary inspiring global prosperity beyond economic wealth; and, honored for her lifetime achievement with the Award for Natural Law and Order from the Maharishi University School of Management and with the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of ESG & Investing at TBLI Europe.  Henderson is also a co-author with Barbara Marx-Hubbard and Jean Houston of  The Power of Yin (Cosimo Books, 2007.)

Nominations for EthicMark Awards are now open!

Founded in 2004 by Cosimo author Hazel Henderson and supported by Ethical Markets Media, The EthicMark Awards are once again upon us. The rewards recognize socially responsible advertising and media communications that uplift the human spirit and society. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the awards!

Award-winning companies are examined by all-encompassing standards for
- the value of their message,
- the product or service being advertised
- and the merits and reputation of the company itself

There is still time to nominate a deserving company -- the submission deadline for 2015 is July 17. 

For more information, please go to www.ethicmark.org.

About the Author:

Hazel Henderson is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, and consultant on sustainable development. She has written books and introductions for Cosimo, including: "Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism," "Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change," "Dare to Care: A Love-Based Foundation for Money and Finance," and "The Power of Yin, Celebrating Female Consciousness."

Two UK Events with Dare to Care Author Louis Bohtlingk

Louis Bohtlingk, author of Dare to Care: A Love-Based Foundation for Money and Finance, is thrilled to be a part of two upcoming events for two outstanding organizations.

Wrekin Trust Transforum Two Whole Person - Whole World 

ABOUT: Following the outstanding success of the 2013 event, the Wrekin Trust is pleased to present a further collaborative weekend - Transforum Two. Developing from last year's weekend, this Transforum will be a demonstration of a thriving, caring community. It will be a time to share and deepen our understanding of how a whole person creates a whole world. Speakers will include Roger Orgill, David Karchere, Clive Larsen, Louis Bohtlingk and Tessa Maskell.
WHERE: Charney Manor in Oxfordshire 
WHEN: 10 October 2014 to 12 October 2014
*For more information  please contact The Wrekin Team: office@wrekintrust.org

*You can also go to: http://www.wrekinforum.org/wrekin_forum/events.html

DARE TO CARE: A love based foundation for money and finance - Together we can do it!!

ABOUT: An interactive evening to explore Care First in action
WHERE: St Columba Church, Chantry Rd, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8DJ

WHEN: Friday 17 October 2014, 7.30pm - 9.30pm (doors open at 7pm)

About the Author

Louis Böhtlingk is a trained intuitive and psychic counselor, certified bookkeeper, workshop leader, and founder of the World Finance Initiative and Care First World. He started working as a psychic counselor in 1981 in the Netherlands. After he met his wife Sandra in 1983, she joined his practice, and since then they have traveled extensively to the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands to broaden their network. In the late eighties Louis started addressing issues with money, survival, and work, which led him to develop a vision for a Love Based Economy and Care First World. In 2003 he created a transformational workshop, “Meeting the Mystery of Money,” to address society’s relationship with money and assist people in moving from fear to trust. His book, Dare to Care contains all his experience, insights, and the vision he gained over thirty years of working in finance.

For more information about these events, please contact The Wrekin Team: office@wrekintrust.org

"Dare to Care" Author, Louis Bohtlingk, Interviewed by Hazel Henderson

A newly released video interview, Daring to Care: The Love Economy, two of our very own authors chat about Dare to Care: A Love-Based Foundation for Money and Finance by Louis Bohtlingk. Hazel Henderson deliberate pressing issues in the finance and economic world, the the Myth of Money, as well as how to gain courage in the work world in this fascinating discussion with author Bohtlingk.

"Dare to Care" encourages readers to approach money and finance from this new care-first perspective, and shows steps everyone can start making on their own, together with existing communities or in conjunction with Böhtlingk’s initiatives.


About the Author:
Louis Böhtlingk, a visionary, counselor and creator of the “Meeting the Mystery of Money” workshop offers a different vision on how to run our financial lives and businesses with his book Dare to Care. Böhtlingk has developed a collection of ideas and initiatives to change finance from a money-first to a care-first attitude. He showcases fascinating examples, such as the story of an American kindergarten kid Ryan Hreljac, who raised money for a drinking well for children in Uganda and the business of Guayaki Yerba Mate that works with yerba mate farmers in South America creating living wage jobs and restoring the South American rainforest. He describes the success of European ethical banking pioneer, Triodos Bank and shows the impressive trends in socially responsible investing which now surpasses $3 trillion out of $25 trillion totally invested in the U.S. In all those and many more examples, Böhtlingk shows that by replacing fear with care and love as the main driver behind our approach to money, this can maximize our well-being and the common good, and change our economic system.  

Streaming Radio Interviews with Dare to Care author Louis Bohtlingk

This weekend, Dare to Care author and inventor of the Care First World initiative, Louis Bohtlingk, interviewed with KGNU radio host Duncan Campbell on his show "Living Dialogues." Duncan and Louis delve into Louis's vision for a care-first approach to money and finance and the principles outlined in his book.

The interview can be listened to in full on the KGNU website or downloaded as an MP3 file. Louis will follow-up this interview on Friday, July 21, along with Hazel Henderson (author of The Power of Yin and founder of Ethical Markets Media), on the KGNU show "Connections," at 10:30 am ET. It will be available online after this time.

Dare to Care and The Espresso Book Machine at The American Book Center in Amsterdam

This Saturday and Sunday, Cosimo author Louis Bohtlingk is presenting his climate-conscious finance book, Dare to Care, at American Book Center locations in The Hague and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In addition, he will be demonstrating the technology of the Espresso Book Machine.

Not only will this be an interesting presentation on the meaning of money in our economies from someone who has worked in finance and with money for years, but copies of Dare to Care will be printed locally at the event by the Espresso Book Machine for fans who want a signed copy.

Dare to Care is just one of thousands of Cosimo titles available on this innovative publishing machine, which is featured in bookstores around the world. In New York City, McNally Jackson in Soho houses its own machine, ready to print any book within the Espresso database at a moment's notice. This device as a fantastic alternative for bookstores who want to offer print-on-demand books, but don't want to carry a large stock, especially for stores in locations where not every single book is available or where online ordering is not always available or fast. For locations of all Espresso Book Machines around the world, click here.

Dare to Care Author Calls for Cooperation on Financial Crises in Online Video

Dare to Care author Louis Bohtlingk calls us to action and presents his ideas about how to transform the financial world in his new online video. You can watch the video below, as well as check out Louis's online platform for Dare to Care. Louis invites us:

LET’S RAISE OUR VOICES, SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE AND BUILD TOGETHER!“Join the discussion about the state of our financial world and our economies and what we can do to create a better situation for us all. We need to hear everyone and work together. We all can make a contribution.”

You can view more videos from Louis on his website, www.carefirstworld.com.

Cygnus Review in the UK had this to say about Dare to Care:

“Louis Bohtlingk offers an inspiringly simple yet far-reaching idea 
for transforming our economy and the world of finance, so that it support rather than undermines, 
our human needs and those of our planet.”

Book review Dare to Care: Why Our Current Financial Crisis is a Crisis of Consciousness

Dare to Care: A Love Based Foundation for Money and Finance has received yet another review. Maddy Harland co-founder and editor of Permaculture Magazine (www.permaculture.co.uk) has written the review which can be found here.  The review discusses confronting the world's financial issues and what a care based economy would look like, based on what Louis Bohtlingk describes in his book and comes to a positive conclusion that not only is Bohtlingk's system a possibility, it would serve the greater good. Read it!

Message from Author Louis Bohtlingk

We recently published the book Dare to Care: A Love Based Foundation for Money and Finance by Louis Bohtlingk. While the book discusses a financial system in which caring is more valuable than monetary gain, Louis and his organization Care First World, continue to uphold and teach this method. If you'd like to know more check out his newsletter or watch the video above. 

Valentine's Day Has Come and Gone, but Love is Here to Stay

Money and Love, they're not synonyms and yet they're very often represented together. Perhaps its their shared connection of the Goddess Venus. Perhaps it's the superficiality of today's world which places extra emphasis on money. Or maybe it's because money and love are considered to be high value commodities. Recently, I'm sure you've noticed, the downfall of money. It's no less important, but many are starting to wonder why some are driven by greed (and therefore money). Shouldn't the driving force in our world be love, which is (to a certain extent) free? With occupy movements popping up around the globe, their message is clear: we don't like the way our money and money in general is being handled.

It's possible, that the best way to get real results is to make a radical change beyond what's currently being considered. The article "The Money Has Gone so Make Love our Alternative Currency" on The Guardian website, written in honor of Valentine's day, makes the suggestion that love should be our new currency. How that would work exactly, I'm not sure. But I think his real suggestion is that our lives should center around the things we love, not the money we make. Humans in general should focus their energy on creating, spreading, and showing love instead of money. His line of thinking is not unlike that of Cosimo's author Louis Bohtlingk, whose book Dare to Care: A Love-Based Foundation for Money and Finance with a foreword by Hazel Henderson, discusses changing world currency and focusing on caring and sharing. Will these new and radical ideas help change the world economy? Or has the world become so money obsessed that the change many are looking for will never come?