Mark Rego-Monteiro worked for several years in financial services in New York City, after having worked in social services and having been a co-owning member of a food co-operative supermarket there for years. His masters degree is in social and environmental political economics, and he has been teaching ESL and working as a sustainability consultant in Brazil for the last five years. Conscious Connection represents a forum where he can share his fascination with Whole Cost and Fair Trade socioeconomics, ecological literacy, and spiritual responsibility .
Learn how the social entrepreneurial spirit can be applied to fair trade economics. Much in the same way as the Triple Bottom Line expands accounting thought into a holistic cost-internalizing system, venturing beyond conventional economic philosophy may require a shift in thinking in a way related to an understanding of yoga’s value.
