Re: Planting a Trillion Trees

forest <[email protected]> Sat, 1 May 2004 03:12:58 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.technology.sustainable.ecobalance
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T wrote:

> Volunteers will Plant these Trees and get a free meal and a place to
> stay in return.
>
> forest:
> who will pay for or grow the food????
>
>  t:
> Workers will Plant these Trees and receive Credit in the form of Eden
> Hours.
>
> forest:
> will it run like a hive with worker bees, drone, queen, etc.??????....
>
>
> t:Homesteaders will Plant these Trees and watch them grow up all
> around us on our homesteads.
>
> forest:
> that sounds reasonable....
>
>  t:
> Paid Workers will also choose to work outdoors for the community in
> this and many other ways to take care of the environment. They will be
> paid in Mendo Greens.
>
> forest:
> where will the money come from, who will control the spending of
> money????
>
>  t:
> Decisions will be made in the most practical manner as you would
> expect.
>
> forest:
> that is quite a vague statement, who decides what is practical and is
> there no room for the visionary here also????...balancing practical
> with intuition????...
>
>  t:
> Eden has a history.
>
> forest:
> yes, a lotta talking and fantasy going on with most of us sustainable
> folks, but really unless one clearly defines a goverment policy based
> on consensus paradigm imho it will not achieve sustainability other
> than to some small degree....without a sense of equality and
> independance and closeness...opps startin ta ramble....aloha,
>
>
>

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