Beyond Money: What Comes Next?

Come to our second monthly meeting!
As well as discussing the event topic this month, I would like to hear from people where they would like to hold these events and what kind of format they might be.  As of now we are meeting and having discussions. Maybe we could arrange to meet at a local [...]

If the members of a local community want their community to cohere, to Flourish, and to last, these are some things they would do:

From “Another Turn of the Crank”
By Wendell Berry
Via http://tribes.tribe.net/thelandspeaks/thread/cd97770c-ff9e-4f62-8384-cd9cbf69d08a
If the members of a local community want their community to cohere, to
Flourish, and to last, these are some things they would do:
1. Always ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to
our community? How will this affect our common wealth?
2. Always include [...]

“2012: Time for Change”

The Santa Fe Evolver is collaborating
with individuals and organizations in
the Santa Fe area, organizing film
screenings, workshops, panel discussions,
regular news letters and podcasts,
and much more in an effort to
create a symposium for cultural transformation.
We are participating in the
internationally synchronized Evolver
Spore Events that occur around the
third Wednesday of each month. If
you are interested [...]

Santa Fe, New Mexico Spore’s first regular off-line gatherings

Food gardens to take root in city parks

Food gardens to take root in city parks
Organizers look for volunteers to help projects grow
By Julie Ann Grimm | The New Mexican
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/PrintStory/Food-gardens-to-take-root-in-city-parks
5/6/2009

Photo by: New Mexican file photo

Are you interested in growing vegetables, but lack a good place to do it?
Community gardens are expected to sprout soon in three Santa Fe public parks, and organizers are [...]

New Kind of Money to End Money

Yet another interesting post I found on the interwebs about alternative currencies . . .
from http://www.realitysandwich.com/a_new_kind_money_end_money
A New Kind of Money to End Money
Sanjay Perera

Originally published on Reality Sandwich June 10, 2008.
This piece will look at the new money that is coming into being, and which will replace money as we know it. Money will [...]

What is True Wealth?

Finding Leland Lehman’s article, “Weathering the Economic Storm,” is yet another syncronicity to add to my list. Just the other day a friend and I had been wondering what happened to the alternative currencies that sprung up around the country in the mid 90’s. One begins to think of such things as the economy dives, [...]

Mother’s Trading Circle

Below is an email that I received from Mother Media on a topic that I have been wondering about lately. Remember local currencies? The seemed to pop up everywhere back in the 90’s. Since the economic dive lately I had been thinking of those currencies and when they might begin popping up again. Well, here [...]