GIDT Blog

True Value Accounting and Decentralized Finance

Valuation for Life Economies Accounting is an essential tool of business for measuring and reporting on progress and providing the information needed by decision-makers. In order to support regenerative, life economies, accounting needs to evolve to include more than just value that can be priced in financial markets. True Value

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What are Life Economies?

Life Economy – An Economy of Service to Life Life is an incredibly beautiful, awe-inspiring and highly complex system, interconnected and interdependent. We are all one with the life system that is this planet Earth. From the waters that flow through our veins and the rivers we walk along, to

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Truth and Reconciliation

A beautiful Indigenous grandmother said, “Truth is the foundation of all life.” Without truth we are not free, the basis for society cannot exist and our relationship with ourselves, one another and our natural world becomes disconnected and dis-eased. Since the beginning of time, truth has been seen as the

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Life Economy

By: Sonia Molodecky A Life Economy, as many Elders have coined it, is one where we strive to maintain and enhance this natural balance of life systems throughout development. By working to enhance life, we operate from the heart-center, where natural law dictates abundance not scarcity, love not fear, unity

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Self-Reliance: A Way Forward

In these times of uncertainty, we must look to our own self-reliance once again. We must go back to the land, back to working with the land and back to our natural values and principles. Investing in our communities is the only “fail safe” measure at this time for it

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Inspiring Female Entrepreneur with Roots in her Culture

We would like to recognize Veronica Smith, shown above at the 2019 Rama First Nation Powwow with her sister. Veronica is a young, female, entrepreneur from Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation. She is the owner of GOTribalwear in Brantford, Ontario. Veronica is rooted in her culture in

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