Complete plan for creating your global village, making it independent of the "system", and creating new economic value..

Four primary parts:

Other things, like creating a power grid, dealing with the sick, or erecting a community center can be handled by these four (really the first two, but I'm saving you some time).

Did you hear that? PERFECT. You can now quantify different ecosystems and measure how they're performing.

There are other parts:

  • Open Source Hardware tools for making your village.
  • Open Source Currency Design to make everyone WANT some.
  • Open Religion: Yes, you will ultimately have to resolve your debts to both the divine Male and Female, but you'll be better for it.
  • Open Networking: Ad hoc, mesh networks to be free of the SYSTEM, yet stay connected.

These will amplify the things you're doing in the first four to make things run more efficiently (or fail faster).

There are two other issues: interfacing with the outer world and protecting yourself from it.


NOTE: Move this under Open Source Economics?

Here's something interesting. A tree does about a penny of work an hour per leaf (it's actually about $0.13/hr in full sunlight at about 15ft off the ground considering 3" diameter leaf area). Let's say that it does a penny of work per day and there are 5000 leaves per year on average (during the growth of the tree) at this average sunlight rate. That's at least a million dollars ($1,000,000) that an average tree's (not counting giant redwoods) work provides to the ecosystem during its lifetime: foilage, shade, oxygen, food, wood (lumber and, later, firewood @~$5/lb), etc.

The same calculations can (and have) be done for wetlands, mountains, rivers, and such. (Figure minimally $24/day per sq yd of wetland as long as there is flow.)

So, remember this: you can easily get a millions dollars of value per square mile annually just by nurturing the environment. That's not even including the social-economic value that you can make by living amongst it in harmony with some mesh networking (double that, for evaluation).

Farmers with Big Ag are getting about $600k each year in the same acreage or land area -- that's after subsidy from oil and gas economy (a subsidy which is at least $18/gal of fossil fuel) but before subsidy from the government for storing their grain.

Eco-friendly folks should have a very good hand in which to justify carving out a niche for a social experiment in their county of alternate ways of living.... the global village.

All these quantifiers are discussed in Tao of Permaculture. See the link in Ecology if the preceding is red.

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