Fwd: food security for all; real food from the backyard, schoolyard & neighbourhood
thanks for supporting and spreading the word on this campaign: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Nelson <[email protected]> Date: Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:02 AM Subject: food security for all; real food from the backyard, schoolyard & neighbourhood To: Richard Nelson <[email protected]>, Marisa McLean < [email protected]> Dear friends, I would really appreciate your help to make our lifePOD super successful - our crowdfunding is struggling and we need everyone, everywhere around the world to help with a contribution - whatever you can manage - since we have a really imperative mission: *lifePOD* is closed environment, regenerative ecological system for food security from the backyard and the schoolyard. On a larger scale of use the same design is an enterprise opportunity in the neighborhood, opening up a vast opportunity for self-employment - creating a global enterprise network (PODnet <http://www.podworksglobal.com>) of 21st Century Vertical Farmers. We start with the first crowdfunding campaign for a design/build project in Montreal, to co-create the first version of the lifePOD. We will share our designs and experience with all of our supporters and we anticipate a wave of lifePOD projects to ripple around the world, as some of you will decide to replicate and improve upon our results, in the Creative Commons. lifePOD is an answer to toxic food & hunger. Contribute what you might spend to go out to dinner or what you might give to a food bank. Many of your friends who really care about food and hunger want to know what to do to make a difference; sharing the lifePOD solution will create a wave of new awareness that the answer to most global challenges is: daily good food for all, in all seasons and protected from impacts of Climate Change. Please consider making a contribution in the amount that you can afford, but please do not delay or feel that your support is too small or not important. Here is where to make a donation to our work: http://inv.st/449/24 WE can make this happen and you are needed on the lifePOD team; be part of the lifePOD solution! -- Richard Nelson http://www.solaroof.org SolaRoof channel at YouTube <http://www.YouTube.com/SolaRoof> SolaRoof Group <http://www.facebook.com/groups/10363095337> at Facebook- SolaRoofCoop <http://www.facebook.com/SolaRoofCoop> Page at Facebook Personal: SolaRoofGuy Wiki Blog <http://www.solaroof.org/wiki/SolaRoofGuy> - Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/solaroof> - Twitter<https://twitter.com/solaroof> Together we can BUILD a future of abundance -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
This is a great last-resort until we can finally learn how to share the sources of production for our own, mutual benefit. Since we still do not know how to share, we must do everything in solitary confinement or expose ourselves to domination by others. Individual production is fun for what it can achieve, but cannot fully compete with Capitalism because it lacks economy of scale. Some say Farmer's Markets and CSAs solve this problem, but the prices are so high that most people cannot afford those luxuries. How is it that products are nearly free when working in isolation, but become inaccessible when grouping together with others? I would think the price should be even lower, since we could then enjoy economy of scale. But another part of the problem is the debt held over the farmers - such that they must charge high prices to pay interest, but never become rich themselves. A crowd of middle-income consumers could probably collectively fund the buyout of a farm and so stop paying this usurous tribute. Crowd funding allows us to evade interest, and crowd ownership will allow us to evade profit. By crowd ownership I mean the crowd can own the means of production for the products they predict they will need, and accept those products directly as a return for the risk of investment. In such a scenario, the product is not sold, and so the price they pay as consumers is exactly the costs they paid as owners, and profit does not exist. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson
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