Sunday was the beginning of a different subject that is certainly relevant in today's world, the lack of sustainability in today's global economy. A cute little video that was shared with us on The Story of Stuff was both entertaining and presents worthwhile concepts on the production of goods and food.
We will be in classes that show us how today's money works (Money as Debt), if you click the link and watch the video, I am not sure I am in tune with all that is said, but there are some interesting points. But we will basically be working to make money our servant not our master.
We will look at different models of sustainable economies, some of these are promoted by the United Nations in conjunction with GEN. Some of these are straight forward such as localvores (eating locally grow foods) others longer term such as changing from ecology from a subset of the economy to a economy that is a subset of ecology.
We will discuss how social activism is a part of this, how we must engage outside of our comfort zones, "within the edges" where old & new concepts meet, in order to change the social fabric. How do we turn dreams into real initiatives.
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