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Good stuff, Juliana - 
Oddly coincidental - this (direct quote) appeared in the inbox, immediately 
after
your post, from another source entirely:

"One can be for local markets and exchange of surplus, while rejecting
economic growth as the measure of human well-being, and turning away from
the excesses of industrial production.  Money grubbing industrial
capitalism is not the end all of being, and in order to have an Earth
capable of providing life, its excesses must be substantially restrained
or it must be destroyed.  In its place autonomous systems of sustainable
local production and fair exchange must rise."

We are not alone.
Sandy

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:14:12 -0700 (PDT), Juliana Dutra wrote:

> 
> The good news is that:
> > we
> >homesteaders are on the right path: Produce your own
> >food, heat your house with your own wood, sell food
> at
> >local markets... When/if gas gets to $10/ gallon no
> >one in the East Coast will be able to afford
> >California dairy or produce, let alone imported
> >foodstuffs. So they will line up at the local market
> >to buy OUR food!
> 
> The bad news is that that, depending on how bad the
> prices get, it may get really expensive to live in the
> big cities - which depend on transportation for
> EVERYTHING since they don't produce any of their food,
> clothes, etc... and get everything delivered to them
> for peanuts now. 

> All of this makes local markets and local communities
> really important because they can help each other
> without spending too much on transportation. Help each
> other on protection from looters, on completing each
> other's pantry, etc.. I give you milk you give me corn
> to feed my animals... We both share the electricity
> from a wind turbine and we both join the neighborhood
> watch for crime prevention.
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