Bainbridge-based progressive activist and author David C. Korten’s latest book, “Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth,” released last month by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, cautions readers that the very stories that define our society are dooming us to a dire future.

We humans live by stories, Korten posits, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this, his latest book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time.

Korten calls our current story, “Sacred Money and Markets.”

Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. Inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it.

Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.

“Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth” is available now at Eagle Harbor Book Company in downtown Winslow as well as online.

Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com for more information.

Korten is a cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, a cochair of the New Economy Working Group, the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, a member of the Club of Rome, a founding board member emeritus of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, a former associate of the International Forum on Globalization as well as a former Harvard Business School professor.