No website yet. We have the business site at www.shinneyboocreek.com and
will have a sales brochure and website for the ARC as the designs are
developed, and some initial conceptualizing gets done. The ARC will be
in the Sierra Nevada near Tahoe just 2 and 1/2 hours from the Bay Area.
The idea is to construct a radically efficient (as only a commons can
achieve) , small footprint, live/shop/work/play, automobile free,
critical grid independent, fair, just, loving community that also has
lots of room for the one leggeds, four leggeds, wingeds, and crawling
things, and where the essential capital need to run the community is
governed as a commons based on the Ostrom Parameters. This community
will be poised for prosperity as the Resource Revolution (our modern
equivalent of the Industrial Revolution) unfolds and it will be built to
survive "in style" Peak Oil, Catastrophic Climate Change, the
Yellowstone Caldera, disruption of thermohaline circulation, or just
resource vulnerability and tyranny.
My blog hiatus reflects a difficult divorce and the placing of my
children's needs above my business (or passion for economic evolution).
During this time, I almost lost, the 160 acre peace of paradise that is
this property, to foreclosure -- and yet {SHABBAMMMM!, Batman} I have
come back strong, with my kids on solid ground (and behind me all the
way). And this was all accomplished to a large degree because of my
commitment to Common Capitalism and the team of partners that has
coalesced around me to run the business, develop events, and pursue an
evolutionary development plan for the future.
I can see many ways I will be enriched by this group based on first
impressions. For one, I need more knowledge about the technical aspects
of commons management and I hope that this group can help me in that.
Next, I seek to build a coalition of Commonteers to form into an
aggregated voting block to demand the passage of the Act of Common Bond
to form a pool of capital so that every citizen of the United States who
is at least 26 years old can borrow money to invest $100,000 in a common
constitutional partnership with at least 300 other partners that is
democratically structured (preferably based on the Ostrom Parameters).
The $19 Trillion dollar government guarantee required by this program is
significantly less than the country is currently investing in propping
up the corrupt banking system via the Federal Reserve "Discount" Window.
The Act of Common Bond requires no federal operating funds unless the
bond insurance system [similar to the FDIC] would become insolvent.
Proper thought and regulation would need to be done to insure prudent
controls.
The Act of Common Bond will also create a high tax-free yield,
government guaranteed, investment vehicle for the besieged hard-working
retired middle class -- protecting them from the financial improprieties
and low yields rampant within the current investment systems.
Finally, I hope to produce an Interdependence Day Dance/Party with a
Purpose/Seize the Commons event at Shinneyboo Creek that I could use
help with to design the program.
I will be in Philadelphia on December 21st for the Declaration of
Interdependence on the Independence Mall and at the Wainwright House in
New York on the 22nd to present our Declarations to a representative of
the United Nations but cannot stop talking about the work of my life and
many other good people.
With Hope, Love, and Determination,
Michael "Pilgrim" Rogers
http://letterstopatriots.blogspot.com/
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