Convener: Terry
How to form an ongoing local economy & livelihood action group
Including smallmart revolution, local business thriving, local economy to realize self as viable entity
The other two subtopics are important aspects of this
Convener: Claudette
With the local economy, how can we support a local infrastructure?
Take wealth-creation out of the tax system
What are the consequences?
How does a local, place-based system pick up the slack?
Social services: education, welfare
Convener: Adam
Follow-up of Session I: concept of alternative currencies
Application, action items
Working group
Participants
Terry, Jen, Kimberly, Claudette, Adam, Dick, Patty, Bernard, Roger, Adam W., Joe L., Domingo
Discussion & Recommendations
- What are assumptions behind strengthening a local economy
- We are a specialized society
- Goods & services that we don’t generate, we get elsewhere with money
- If we cannot provide the most basic services/goods, what are the implications
- We don’t provide for our own basic needs
- Having an awareness of the limits of our local economy
- We can bring external resources in & provide goods/services in exchange
- Establish links between needs & ways to meet those needs
- One group looking at our needs
o Food, energy, health, transportation, housing, currency/economy
- What is the structure in which these groups can exist?
- Competitive government agencies that accept community currencies
- Alternative currencies: any information form that facilitates exchange of goods & services, the environment, our health, our communities, public resources
- What is real wealth? We are deeply confused about wealth & money
- Gross National Happiness vs. Gross National Product
- Conceptual problems: war is peace
- We are so dependent on money & oil, we are highly vulnerable until we provide for our own needs, generating our own goods & services
- We know that the system is doomed, but we’re in denial
- Increase media presence of our projects
Alternative Currency Action Group: Adam, Terry, Patty, Claudette
- The group turned to discussing decriminalizing recreational marijuana as a way to keep local resources from flowing out of the community. The best paying cash crop in the US since the 60s.
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