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p4user

Making a difference

Jan 21, 2006 11:18

I encountered David Mery on Wednesday, lurking suspiciously outside Southwark tube station. He was about to be interviewed by the BBC for a programme to be shown tomorrow at noon. See this on his website for details.
He remarked to me later that my Livejournal isn't updated very frequently. That's because what goes on in my life is either too ( Read more... )

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LLC anonymous January 21 2006, 14:27:17 UTC

Pute,

Define "lurking suspiciously" :-)

LLC as mentioned by Francis Irving in the link you give is the structure I was trying to remember. I first heard of it at WSFII. I believe it was mentioned by Chris Cook (http://petef.org/wp/2005/10/03/wsfii-community-currencies-and-finance-session/ ). Chris' site is at http://opencapital.net/ . One not totally unrelated experiment at this event was with complementary currency, see http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/TheLime .

br -d

Re: LLC p4user February 18 2006, 14:24:57 UTC

Yes, I've also formed opinions about the role of monetary systems in the way people live, sparked by reading Richard Douthwaite's book: The Growth Illu$ion which draws attention to how money works in most of the world. I'd never thought too deeply about economics before that and now I see that it is a key element of how humans behave and needs to be tied into ecology.

In a nutshell, my current thinkiing is that money is a necessary lubricant for human affairs, but the lubricant we have is carcinogenic in the way that it forces "economic growth" which is in turn tied in to escalating energy consumption.

Locally based economies are possibly part of the way out of this problem.

manjushra December 22 2007, 17:18:24 UTC

too private or too uninteresting to post
A former tutor of mine used to teach on "speech acts": every time we speak to someone we are anticipating and hoping to evoke a response within a particular range. The act of speaking is not mere communication, but an action upon the listener.

I recently tried to post a review of the year (2007). It was difficult. Who was my readership? What was I hoping to achieve from the act of communication? Should I censor all stuff about my children bc of internet predators? And my moans about work in case I want my colleagues to have access to my blog? And my romantic life, in case I end up saying something wrong there..? So after all the censorship I have something that is hardly worth the pixels it is written with ( ... )

p4user January 2 2008, 20:01:01 UTC

Thank you for your thoughtful comment and it was nice to meet you the other day.

So the truth is that my paucity of postings reflects that I have
become increasingly reclusive and also unproductive in the
areas I could allow myself to publish.

If that trend changes (I'm hoping it will, but it is a struggle)
you might see me posting garden pictures and perhaps
a renewed foray into the relationship between energy, economics and human
happiness.

The former could be of interest to one or two people who
know me and like gardening themselves. In this case, publishing here is specifically
less demanding of a response than direct mailing to people would be.

The latter would be an exercise in
scientific thinking and research and I'd be looking for critical responses.