Re: Planting a Trillion Trees

Don't worry about how it will work Forest. Negative Energy doesn't work in any system. 
 
Every member of the community must volunteer to work one day per week. That right there is a huge resource which alone can be counted on to do the entire job. All we have to pay for is the Seeds or Seedlings.
 
Then there is Work Exchange for Summer Interns and others who will work year around for Free in return for Food and Board and Fun.
 
Then there is Eden Hours which is Service Credits that can be earned and spent as you please to get some help with a few things you need to get done. We may choose to credit a few people for such work who really do want to plant trees and do consider it to be of some general service.
 
Then there is Mendo Greens which is our main Local Currency. These are paid to actual employees of the Community who have bought into the whole thing and are now working for the Community which operates as a non profit association. We may choose to hire some of these people to do whatever work we may choose to get done as well.
 
Then of course we will still have a huge bank account that is just crammed full of US Dollars that have all been marked with a T on the back that has as you have seen remained largely intact except for the cost of the seeds and or seedlings and a wide variety of tools and supplies. 
 
Committees will be created by the Council and sub-committees will be created in turn. Consensus as you can see has no real place in the environment because it doesn't have that much reality. It is not a necessary part of this process or any other process known to science. 
 
That is just another tiny little tool with almost no effect like a spindly rake that we can do all this work with or without. 
 
All you need to plant trees is a good stick. And I do have a pretty good stick well in hand here as you can see so let us not start panicking about the evaporation of something that was never there to begin with. 
 
I have not promised non stop all night consensus parties every day of the week. We will play around with some of these curiously flawed structures like Democracy and Consensus. 
 
Look who gets elected. It really is a crude tool and it is not used for that reason by any of the exact sciences. It doesn't matter what people think. Opinion does not change the density of water which in this group is very high.
 
We should not be worshiping these false idols of ignorance and fear which all comes only from one thing and that is Wrong Education meaning victim based ignorance. Only the Lifelong Victims like we have seen here on the web so commonly need protection from the Real Visionaries who come across like Charlie Manson for the most part to those who just don't want to know and don't want to learn because they already know everything which to me is a lot scarier than Manson ever could be.. 
 
We will provide these folks with some degree of protection. But we do ask them to give us a little bit of slack as well so we can continue to do our best and not get bogged down in useless stupidities. 
 
That is why we will use the New American 3 /4 Consensus Process Version T that is designed to beat all the others cold. The other stuff has just recently been sold on Ebay just last week. We beat up all the other guys and now we own them. 
 
We are very pragmatic here. I myself will speak up if no one else and say " That is not practical" when dumbness begins to pervade the air. Old expectations must be dropped now that the dawning of a new day has begun to unfold right here before us all on this totally fine new day. 
 
But do read the material if you need more of an indepth understanding. This has all been covered quite fully on the full blown website. Read it while you can before its all taken down and we disappear from sight. - T
 
http://edenvillage.net 


forest <[email protected]> wrote:


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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