"Building a Sustainable Future" presentation 8/24

[Insurgent]

The Seacoast Peak Oil/Sustainable Living Meetup Group is organizing an event this Friday night called "Building a Sustainable Future" in Exeter, NH.

There's more details to be found on their meetup site
http://oilawareness.meetup.com/286/calendar/6203302

Here are some of the details:
Friday, August 24, 2007, 7:00 PM
Blue Moon Market (2nd Floor)
8 Clifford Street
Exeter , NH 03833
603-778-6850

The Seacoast Sustainable Living Community is sponsoring Building a Sustainable Future, a presentation, film viewing and discussion by Dick Wollmar. The focus of the evening will be on what Seacoast residents can do now to shape a sustainable tomorrow.

Dick Wollmar of Moor Farm in North Hampton, NH is also the landowner for the Leeks and Bounds Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm (http://www.leeksandbounds.org). He is a former town selectman and is on the board of North Hampton Forever. The goal of North Hampton Forever is to find the ways and means to conserve open land and to be ready when appropriate land comes on the market. Dick Wollmar himself has donated to North Hampton over 14 acres of land to be kept in conservation.

He is knowledgeable on issues of sustainable living, peak oil, composting, farming and organizing & affecting change at the local (municipal and state) level. He recently participated in a "The Natural Step" program (http://www.naturalstep.org/com/nyStart) in Portsmouth, NH and highly recommends this method for groups seeking to build sustainability at a community level.


Some of us are going to be carpooling over to this from Concord, and additional carpool meeting spots could be set up as interest grows. Follow the Meetup site for developing details. It's free to join the group, too  http://oilawareness.meetup.com/286/

[PowerPenguin]

That sounds cool. Let me know how it goes! The more pro active, pro self reliance activities out there, the less people will be tempted to rely upon the state to do their dirty work for them. Do these guys do a lot of physical land restoration, etc? I like this kind of thing, and would be interested in getting involved when I move next year.

[Ron Helwig]

You should ask them if they would be interested in a sustainable currency (i.e. the Liberty Dollar), which is necessary for a sustainable economy. The non-Federal non-Reserve system works actively against a sustainable economy by causing malinvestment in favor of ever increasing growth. (Not that growth itself is bad, but overinvesting in growth is)

[EthanAllen]

You should ask them if they would be interested in a sustainable currency (i.e. the Liberty Dollar), which is necessary for a sustainable economy. The non-Federal non-Reserve system works actively against a sustainable economy by causing malinvestment in favor of ever increasing growth. (Not that growth itself is bad, but overinvesting in growth is)

Most sustainable community folks are into the local currency movement. One gentleman in particular, Thomas Greco, is actively promoting a B2B, mutual credit clearing system like the WIR Coop Bank in Switzerland (free money, free banking) which I presented at the pirate forum of the Freedom Festival last year.

http://reinventingmoney.com/index.html

Growth is bad in a limited resources world. But the neo-classical revolution in economics are to blame because by substituting "land" as simply capital after labor is applied they have inadvertently created a pricing system that can not account for all the costs (negative externalities) and thus don't give the proper signals to sustainable practices.

[jaqeboy]

You should ask them if they would be interested in a sustainable currency (i.e. the Liberty Dollar), which is necessary for a sustainable economy. The non-Federal non-Reserve system works actively against a sustainable economy by causing malinvestment in favor of ever increasing growth. (Not that growth itself is bad, but overinvesting in growth is)

Maybe the carpool could swing by and pick you up with your "bank" and you could set up shop at the event! This would help expand the community of LD users.