Permaculture San Francisco
Bringing together the Permaculture community of San Francisco
Bringing together professionals, educators, designers, consultants, and activists around the common thread of Permaculture for a village rennisance in the urban pulse of the city of San Francisco.Sheet mulching lawns to gardensThis group site is for the community to use as a way to post events and resources.San Francisco is a meca on the west coast for alter ...learn more
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The document that formed the basis of http://www.realityinfo.org . Written in 2007.
All comments greatly appreciated. Direct them either to myself personally or make your voice known in the group.Just let them be heard :)
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Great ideals, I like to think how you could get to that 1 billion supporters stage. Would it help to look a little at three sides of capitalism, ownership, money supply and markets? Ownership is ripe for some manner of 'revolution' as a response to large populations losing access to what they need to survive. There is a choice between playing winner-takes-all monopoly and a sharing game. Sharing could be sweetened if our culture can award status for sharing rather than just accumulation of wealth. I've written an article for the UN on how to switch ownership of the Earth's surface to guardianship on behalf of the future - something we could learn from ancient cultures.
Money supply is also ripe for change as those who have been able to generate the bulk of money supply have acted like pirates, stealing global economic stability for personal gain. There are good reforms for this issue, such as locally-generated money and publicly-generated money. Both can be spent into their economies without need for interest, thus removing most of the thumbscrews from people's financial lives.
Markets are harder to do without, though if you can propose a plausible alternative then you're winning. I like to think how to rejig markets so they reverse the problems they currently cause. We could end the self-defeating conflict between economics and needs.
James