I think one of the most pervasive problems is the messed up incentives that fuel our economies, governments and households. In other words, banker's money which is designed to be scarce, is driving us over a cliff to a terrible crash. We don't have to fight that system, it will collapse under it's own weight.

However, what I'd like to see is a rich ecology of alternatives to facilitate the healthy flows which sustain our communities, households and biosphere WITHOUT needing normal money.

Examples:

An Adopt-A-Grandparent program in large urban apartment buildings. This simultaneously creates inter-generational relationships, addresses child care needs for busy parents, and overcomes the isolation and purposeless that many aging people feel.

A Loaves & Fishes Resource Sharing Basket in a neighborhood church. This can be more than a physical place to put items to share, but also the electronic tools for people to list idle resources they can share their neighbors (Books, DVDs, Tools, Gardening equipment, RV's, etc.). An economy based on each person having to go buy their own of every item which is only used occasionally is not sustainable. We can put tools in place to facilitate sharing what we have better.

There are many more examples. When you consider your community and the flows that sustain it, what impact could you have with well-directed flows of time, energy, skills, knowledge, participation, goods and services? You don't need to wait for money to make it happen. Just create new tools to catalyze the flows.

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I've also studied Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Russian, Japanese and German, but have neither the skill nor vocabulary to consider myself conversant in them.

Strangely, sometimes I dream in Portuguese and seem to understand it fairly well when I overhear it. Maybe this hints of past lives...?? I don't know.