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A general overview about degrowth in the multidimensional crisis, and the Social Reaction in the neighbour of Pumarejo (Sevilla) in the last 15 years. Also how the Social Currency PUMA is working in this context.
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THINK SPACE 2013
Alternativ konomi øsom f llesskabæ
20. september Byens Rum
Source: www.impossiblehamster.org
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.“
Kenneth Boulding
Just a financial crisis?
What is happening?
Multidimensional Crisis
Economic Crisis
Economic Crisis
The Concentric Circles
FINANCES
ECONOMY
SOCIETY
BIOSFERE
BIOSFERE
SOCIETY
ECONOMY
FINANCES
De-commercializing the liveDe-commercializing the live
Ecological Crisis
Ecological FootprintDenmark
Souce: www.footprintnetwork.org
Ecological FootprintSpain
Souce: www.footprintnetwork.org
Ecological Footprint
- Overhead
- Impossibility of spread the Occidental Way of Life
- Unsustainability
- Degrow
Energetic Crisis
Climate Crisis
Social Crisis
The growth's unhappiness
De-what?
What is degrowth?
- Trend of thought
- social movement
- Decrease of consuption
- Controlled and rational production
- Cultural revolution
- Together we can live better with less
Degrowth basis
- Voluntary sobriety and simplicity
- Creative leisure time
- Reproductive work vs. productive work
- Reduction of working hours
- Triumph of the social life
- Reduction of structures
- Primacy of the local
- Resources distribution
Some Questions
- Is it possible to continue growing
globally?
- Is it possible the sustainable growth?
- Why is better voluntarily degrowth?
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
The praxisLas Corralas
The praxis
The praxis
The praxis
INITIATIVES
Permaculture
INITIATIVES
Food Sovereignty
INITIATIVES
Social Currency
Further Information- Crash coursewww.peakprosperty.com/crashcourse
- Ecological footprintwww.footprintnetwork.org
- The oil drumwww.theoildrum.com
- Degrowthwww.degrowth.euwww.decrecimiento.info
THINK SPACE 2013
community-based alternative economy
The experience from “Casa Palacio del Pumarejo (Sevilla)”
Community?“What is and what should never be...” Led zeppelin
What is Pumarejo?
Filmed and edited by Emek Filogullari http://vimeo.com/68080105
What defines Pumarejo?
Struggle & organization
Protest graffiti on the roofFor Google Maps!!!
SpeculationGentrification
Unique thinkingboicot from city council
What defines Pumarejo?
Openness & Self-organization NeighboursLocal trades
AsociationsCitizenship
Working on the restoration of the social centre
Neighbour waterproofing the roof of the House
What defines Pumarejo?
Celebration & senseOf Humor
Acomplished goalsLive in the square
PartyIrony
Protest meeting at the main door of the Town Hall
Values of Pumarejo?
Community Vs Individual
Collective DecisionsColaboration
Mutual Support
Assembly in the courtyard of the House
Values of Pumarejo?
Trust vs control
PeopleProcessesDiversity
Main Hall of the community Centre
Values of Pumarejo?
Abundance Vs Scarcity ResourcesAbilities
Knowledge
Vs
Money
Pumarejo ParadiseWorkshops about the House and its future 2008.
Values of Pumarejo?
Strength & determination
Workshop about Collective Selfbuilding.First step for the restoration of Pumarejo
House by the citizens. Oct 2012.
Protest & Disobedience
What we have achieved:
Social and community centreCataloguing as BIC. 2003Use agreement. 2011 Beginning House Restoration(“Lo hacemos nosotras” LHN - Project)
...And there's still some left
Opening the Community Centre.15 sept 2003
10 years ago.
Protest & Disobedience
"Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible
to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the
rights of man?”
Henry David Thoreau
14 years building Social Fabric & community
May's Cross Celebration
Resilience
“AffectionIs
Revolutionary”
Unexpected Graffiti on the front of the Pumarejo's House
Alternative economy?
in this context...
“Rocking in a free world” Neil Young
We need other models!!
NEOLIBERAL ??more market!!
Keynesian ??+ Public invest!!
+ Citizenship!ParticipationDecisionAction
Direct Democracy !!
Creating Self-Sufficient Spaces
Basaed on: Ecology & EnvironmentDegrowth
Open modelsColaborationCooperation
Development&
EconomyHuman Scale
"No matter how hostile the environment in which we are working is, we must never cease to insist that
development is about people and not about objects. That the aim of development must be neither
producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of
humanity, but needs of being as well. ”
Manfred MaxNeef
Human Scale Development
And what aboutThe money?
“Take the money and run” Woody Allen
What is money?
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our
banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be
a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Henry Ford
What is money?
Positive money http://www.positivemoney.org/2013/05/whatismoneynewvideo/
So why not Create ourOwn money?
“Free Money” Patti Smith
Social Currency PUMA
What it is?: Local currency in PumarejoComplementary to €
Phisical PassbookCES Digital Platform
1 puma = 1 €LETS System
Zero sum Game
“the base is theTrust network”
Social Currency PUMA
How to exchange? Passbook readySeller on +Buyer on -
Sign the other passbookNew Balnce
Pass to CES
Transaction is based on mutual trust. There's no control but ourselves.
Filling in the Passbook
Social Currency PUMA
Objectives Strengthen the communityRelocate the economy
Strengthen abilities and knowledgeSatisfy basic needs
Money as a tool
Meeting points of Pumas are continous.Mercapuma y Supply Center
Social Currency PUMA
How it works?
Board of offers & demands in the community centre of the Pumarejo House
Inscription & trainingRegistration at CES
Initial Balance = 0Max -100 P
Personal AccountOffers & demands
Start transactionsIntegration on groups
STOP use €
CES: your personal account
CES: Offers and demands
Offer list on CES... You can search for time period, categories, user, last included, etc...
Offer categories in Puma Currency
Working Groups
Communication
incorporation
Administration
MercapumaSupply Center
Care project
Health Project
Studies & ProjectsAccounts & management
WebSocial Networks
EventsParticipation
Inernal Communication
PeopleProducers & local business
groups
Monthly Market on SquareMeet consumers & producersMain Funding Source
Food & Hygiene 100% PUMAProd. Organic, local, handmadeSelf-production
Compensation / refundArbitrationPumafundingWork bureau
Prime AttentionProffesional AdvisingAlternative Therapy
UniversityAsociationCommunity Centres, etc.
How is funded?Mercapuma – Paper note! (only for 1 day)DonationsChange to Pumas€Conferences, Talks, Workshops, Projects, etc...
Supply20%50% 20% 10%
Restoration Care Manage.
Process followedOct 2011
Jan. 2012
March 2012
Jan 2013
May 2013
Today...
Talk about Social Currency in Pumarejo (RDS)First Steps of PUMA: Type of Currency, Objectives,First Groups...20 people aprox.
Pilot project. Transactions p2p, Improvements & redefining First Swap Market on Square
1st Mercapuma... The party has just began!...Join up new people, Producers, local Business and othersConsolidation of groups, new ideas & projectsDifusion between local business and producersExtension of network and feeling on communityProgramming talks, Conferences, Radio, Events, workshops....
Redefinition of Supply Center And Care Project!Start working Sypply at 100% en PUMA
II National Meeting of local Currencies Success!!
Promote & replicate new local currenciesConsolidate Projects (Care, Health, Food Sovereignty, training, etc.)Self-funding Projects in /Puma€
Some data
Users: 700
actives: 300
Sellers: 50%
Buyers: 93%
Prosumers: 43%
March 2012 – sept 2013March 2012 – sept 2013
Total Income in €Total Income in €
2012 (March – dic): 7.650 / 57.400 Kr€2013 (Jan. – june): 7.024 / 52.600 Kr€
Total Expected End 2013: 21.600 / 162.000 Kr€ Self-funding !!!Self-funding !!!
Some data
Value generated in PumasValue generated in Pumas
2012: 3.000 Pumas / 22.500 Kr2013 (1/2): 15.700 Pumas / 117.750 Kr€
Total Expected end 2013
33.000 P / 247.500 Kr
eco-Wealth !!!eco-Wealth !!!
SO?? Why not
Create yourOwn money??
“Young Frankenstein” Mel Brooks
Other local currencies
LETS System (Mutual Credit). And there are much more types!!
Starting!!!Objectives?
Target Group?Needs?
Type of currency?Promoters Group
&
Participation!!Inclussion!!
Participation Process with no Exclusion or Digital divide
You can count on the PUMA Herd!!!
"Whoever thinks that is toolittle to change things, is
because he has never slept with a mosquito in the room”
Gui
Refferences & info
Pumarejo website: http://www.pumarejo.esRestoration Project “LHN”: http://www.lohacemosnosotras.org/Documentary EMEK: http://vimeo.com/user1434688Pumarejo Youtibe Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Pumarejolandia
About Pumarejo's House
Positive money: http://www.positivemoney.org/NEF (New Economics Foundation): http://www.neweconomics.org/Manfred Max-Neef website: http://www.max-neef.cl/
About monetary System and Multidimensional Crisis
Blog Social Currency Puma: http://monedasocialpuma.wordpress.com/Community exchange sistem (CES): https://www.community-exchange.orgComplementary currency: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/Scoop “Self-dependance & Social Currency”: http://www.scoop.it/t/autodependencia-y-moneda-socialBlog julio gisbert “live without emplyment”: http://www.vivirsinempleo.org/
About local currencies
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