HPI Promotes sharing and cooperation
as the best means of securing both our individual freedoms
and our common welfare

Oil dependency and energy crises.  A rising cost of living that outstrips stagnant salaries.  Environmental deterioration.  A process of globalization that exports many of the best jobs.  Corporate corruption and runaway CEO compensation.  

To a greater or lesser degree all of these problems, and many, many more are the outcome of a corporate economic model that enshrines selfish individualism. It was Einstein who suggested that insanity should be suspected whenever someone keeps doing the same thing over and over and yet expects different outcomes.  That being so, perhaps it's time to consider a different economic model, one that encourages sharing and cooperation instead. Our purpose here at the High Plains Institute is to promote the growth of proven economic alternatives that do just that.

We emphasize the word "proven" because the alternatives that we speak of here have all been tried and have all been proven successful — indeed, in many cases they've been proven more efficient, more practical, and more productive than their more familiar counterparts in the corporate economy.

What are these alternatives?  The following list provides just a few examples:

• Worker ownership of businesses (link)
• Consumer cooperatives (link)
• Community & conservation land trusts (link)
• Labor exchanges and other forms of time-based economies (link)
• Socially responsible investing through institutions like revolving loan funds, micro-lending and community banking (link)
• Equity-sharing for transforming the landlord-tentant relationship (link)
• Ecovillages, cohousing, collectives and other forms of intentional community (link)

Not familiar with what these terms mean?  For additional insight, just follow the links.

For the future of Colorado,
The Board of HPI