James Quaid <jfquaid(at)earthlink.net> wrote Keith,
You may want to check out <http://solari.com> . This was Catherine Austin Fitt's brain child. Where she discusses the concept of a Solari. Briefly, its a < 100k coop that agrees to do business exclusively internally (where goods and services permit). It's what's called placed based economics. Where the goal of the coop is to keep as much $ in the community as possible. This includes going after Gummint contracts, etc. You can sell to anyone. However, your purchases have to be as close to home as possible. After Catherine was chased out of DC by FedGov.Inc (note domain suffix) for busting big Bush and Clinton supporters for Soprano's style HUD fraud. She returned to her family home in Happy Valley, TN. Her neighbors asked if she could help them. They had a lot of unemployment and city services were expensive. They first thing she recommended is to start there one sanitation co. This employed people internally and reduced the cost of garbage pickup to everyone in the community. The pipe dream of Globalization (thanks to Bubba and Newt) is like a direct economic short. Where the money is siphoned out of your place at the expense of child and prison labor. This model has a totally open accounting system. Where all members are encouraged to keep track of all transactions posted on a private solari server. The model is quite open to fit the needs of the members. It includes issuing A and B stock shares. Where A shares can only be sold to the solari members. B shares can be sold to anyone. This much akin to the Mondragon Society in Spain. If just 10% of us shifted our purchases away from the Tape Worm economic model (WalMart, MSM, McDonalds, etc), it would effect FedGov.Inc's profits by 30%. Because, they count their profits thrice like Enron. Couple that by the sustainable community business / coop model and we have an extremely effective Gandhi style boycott. Regards, JQ (First Solari Member) On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 20:55 +0200, Keith Addison wrote: <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/22-2> <http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel> _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
