Living Without Money. And bacteria and atoms and galaxies. Nothing Special. (which we think is the whole universe). Yup, I boast! I boast about Nothing Special. Let the Nothing-Specials boast, for Babylon has boasted its delusions of "value" & "progress", and trampled Nature, shat on Beauty, long enough. Enough "My Gratis is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in Weakness. --Kodo Sawaki ("Homeless Kodo") I've been living without a cent to my name since the autumn of 2000 (with a month's exception during my first year). And, after years of doing this, to my joy, I've learned there are other people in the world doing the same.
Why? I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! That becomes real because you believe it is real. Wild Nature, outside civilization, runs on gift economy: "freely give, freely receive. " Commercial civilization runs on thought of credit and debt (knowledge of good & evil); thus it is imbalanced. The proof is inside you: Re.silience.com - Vinay Gupta. Open Building Institute. The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world. Earthships: Living Off The Grid. Simple Survival Model Earthship.
An Earthship in 10 Minutes.