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Aired Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 5:00 PM ESTBusiness As UNusual: How A Life Economy Can Overgrow the Death EconomyA Conversation With Conscious Business Initiative’s Steve Farrell“Putting the pie-in-the-sky ideal into the down-to-earth real deal is where the karma meets the road.” — Swami BeyondanandaSteve-Farrell_Wiki-Politiki_OMTimes-RadioA little more than a year ago, I heard author John Perkins (Confessions of An Economic Hit Man) speak, and found one piece of his message particularly heartening. Perkins, as you may know, spent years working for the World Bank selling boondoggle projects to developing nations. His book was an exposé of economic exploitation disguised as “development.” He has since turned his focus to exposing the “death economy” that involves four “E’s” (extraction, exploitation, extortion and yes, extinction) and empowering the life economy based on 4 R’s — renewables, respect for the web of life and human life as well, and redefining “growth” as growth in happiness and wellbeing while usi