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The best way to deal with money issues is to avoid dealing with money

Official currency is a way to get a grip over people. Since taxation doesn´t reach trade (or direct exchange) people could avoid paying more for the same product by recurring to a different kind of payment method.

Therefore, perhaps the best way to overcome the limitations over money is to create an institution capable of offering a parallel system based on direct trade. Then people could trade, whatever they got, for another thing.

If solid enough, this kind of solution would… Continue

Added by Yamil Darío Santoro on May 9, 2010 at 7:33am — No Comments

Act 5 - Money conversion

I really tried to convert virtual money into actual currency - greeny dollars.

It is virtually imposible. But the other way around is so easy there is already a rate of exchange, as seen on http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_futureofmoney/all/1

As it says,…

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Added by THIAGO CARVALHO PELUCIO SILVA on May 4, 2010 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Money Action

Here's how I started participating in the new economy.

I became a part of freecycle. I surf the Craigslist free section.

I am on couchsurfing and I help people travel for free instead of putting money into big hotel chains. I also get to use the couchsurfing network wherever I go as well.

I have moved my money from the big banks to a

small

credit union.

I have decided to buy a plot of… Continue

Added by Mazarine on April 29, 2010 at 6:02pm — No Comments

Meaty Towers of Goodness

I will be brief, I do not know a single person who has had a good steak and didn't like it. One of those sizzling, perfectly marbled beauties that you don't even season because the person sitting next to you would scold you for ruining a masterpiece.

I also know that, when it comes to energy efficiency, vegetarian and vegan are the tops. Or, really, the bottoms of the energy pyramid ( where there's the most energy! )

I've helped three houses near…

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Added by Conor Drums on April 29, 2010 at 5:54pm — No Comments

what to tell in 2081 - car free days - those were the 1970s in Germany - imagine8

If I would have the chance to pass on my elder wisdom I would tell the future generations about the car free days in Germany in the 1970s - remembering the oil crisis and the scarcity of resources.

The scarcity of resources, in particular that of energy, won't be a topic in 2081 as green mobility and renewable energies became mainstream in the 2050s. However, due to this, worldwide enduring mobility will be a daily fact and days without using transportation will not exist…

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Added by MirkoZ on April 28, 2010 at 5:11pm — No Comments

THE RULE OF 3R’S:if there’s no planet, there will be no future for money

REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE

Here I present a good eco-friendly alternative for trading second hand goods:

2 years ago we decided to…

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Added by Ternura Rojas on April 21, 2010 at 2:40pm — 6 Comments

Gardening PDF books

I have a collection of pdf books that I have found have useful for anyone wishing to learn. I also highly recommend a book called Back To Basics by Reader's Digest, this book shows you how to build a homestead using the resources around you, very useful book but i don't have a digital version to give out....yet

If you are interested in any let me know and I'll sent it to you.

1 ebook:

Organic Secrets

Here are the pdf files I… Continue

Added by Theodore Burt on April 19, 2010 at 6:45pm — 1 Comment

free plants

Yesterday I seeded a bunch of plants. To day I posted a call out to my friends to bring me pots to put them in and take home. I am hoping to start a trend and see how many people will become growers for the community. I can instruct them in the ways of growing, let them grow in bulk to give away and to learn how to get in on helping the community grow food even if they have little time to commit to the effort. I am encouraging easy plants and encouraging people to act regardless of their… Continue

Added by Theodore Burt on April 16, 2010 at 2:23am — 3 Comments

Free Education, Freeing Education ...

It had begun so simply. Too many years working in libraries colliding in my head with this wh*** new open source education idea. Perhaps it has always been naive of me to believe that the right lever could move the world, but the right book in the right hands could make a huge difference. The website did okay. And perhaps the team that put together the later version had seen mine first or heard about it. And the things that happened then.

Perhaps what really made the…

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Added by Mark Mulkerin on April 8, 2010 at 6:01am — 1 Comment

Giving stuff away actually works.

Actually, I have to admit this is not something we have never used before... but I dont think just because a lot of people are already participated in it makes this any less important.

so this is my post from 2 weeks ago:

In lieu of time, I will just quickly roll over point 3 from exhibit A, Embrace market mechanisms (Giving stuff away rarely works as well as

selling it.).

I am convinced, and so are others, that this does… Continue

Added by Jan Lampe on April 2, 2010 at 11:08am — 10 Comments

All About Water (Major Correction)

The April 2010 issue of the US publication National Geographic is entirely devoted to the subject of wate

You can download the entire issue for free until April 2 at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/zinio/freshwater/?of=500204105&bd=1

Added by Eugene Robkin on March 31, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

ScienceFiction? Free Natural Household Lighting, EXPERTS WANTED!!

I hate long blog posts so I will get straight to the point in hopes you read and comment on it.

My idea is this: a Verticle Cylindrical Light Prism. (for people unfamiliar with prisms, they recieve light at one end and effectively disperse and radiate it throughout the entire prism, is that accurate?)

It would run from the outside top of a house to the basement of your house exposed 360* and would probably have a 2-3 ft diameter. I was thinking…

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Added by Zaszo on March 29, 2010 at 12:21am — 11 Comments

Click to Give!

I had to fight the impulse to make excuses to put off this mission. I'm in the middle of relocating, so I'm not really in the position to start volunteering for Meals on Wheels, the farmers market is out of season, and there's no yard to plant vegetables in.

So I started to think about what I can do NOW. These might be tiny contributions, but they'll add up. I've decided to visit each of these websites once a day until the move. Then, once I'm settled somewhere I can look for a… Continue

Added by Sarah Hickox on March 27, 2010 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

A Special Holdiay in 2020

One holdiay that I will be celebrating in 2020 is, Sports Day. This will be a day when all the adults and the kids will go out and play sports. These activites will all be free. It will be fun. But there are very lazy people in this world who dont like sports. So I created a machine that forces the people to play for at least 30 minutes. This holdiay helps us stay very fit and it is very fun. I would call this machine the forcerenforcer because of that reason.

Added by Himanshu Pal on March 23, 2010 at 1:10am — No Comments

Embrace Market Mechanisms

I promise I got through all 33 S.I. Secrets, but #3 also caught my attention: Embrace Market Mechanisms.

There's been a lot of debate in socio-economic circles in recent months about the value of the market and its ability to deliver the best results ("a Pareto optimum if you're into Econ.") for society. In large part, this has to do with the financial crisis, which has tested and twisted our faith in free markets.

From my perspective, it seemed…

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Added by Chris Forster on March 21, 2010 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Perpetual Generator

Not exactly an option for lower cla****, but 2 australian inventors developed a perpetual motion generator by using magets, these generators can go on working untill the magnets force isn't strong enough to continue, which is a lot of years. I don't really know much about them and they're product but it's a DIY one wich costs less than 100$. Here is a video I found about them.

the site:…

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Added by DDeath on March 21, 2010 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

how to get rich saving the planet

Frank Scruggs

Practical Solar…

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Added by Frank scruggs on March 21, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

How I Built Stone Walls to Improve Food Security

To improve food security in my neighborhood, I built stone-walls on a sloped hillside near our home. The walls prevent erosion, allowing my family to grow herbs and vegetables in place of grass. Growing our food reduces transportation costs by limiting the number of times we travel to the grocery store. Because …

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Added by James Ream on March 19, 2010 at 2:24am — 14 Comments

Contact established

so... i just finished a letter to the editor via wired magazines website (as i explained before, mr chris anderson is the editor for wired) and am awaiting a reply. lets see if that works.

Added by Jan Lampe on March 18, 2010 at 11:27pm — 3 Comments

LEARN 1

make it inexpensive

By doing so, one disrupts market forces, one pushes value into other spaces that require intangible human involvement and connectivities, one sets a model for "free" markets, and one hopes that something can come out of nothing.

Added by Ampat Varghese Varghese on March 13, 2010 at 6:48pm — No Comments