Re: Extended sense of The Commons

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584780.html

Glen -

Well described.

I seek out fecundly complex systems over ones which in pursuit of some
abstract measure of productivity or efficiency, optimize a singular or
small number of properties.

Your thoughtfulness about the "whole system" is always refreshing.

- Steve

- Steve

>> Glen writes:
>>
>>> I use it myself in choosing to donate money, rather than labor to the
>>> community garden.
>> At some cost premium, and perhaps quality penalty, I pay money at this
>> place called a grocery store.
> Ha! I get my veggies from the store, too.  I don't get any food in
> exchange for my donations.  Plus, I don't personally donate the funds.
> My company does, in exchange for having our logo on the fence ... not
> that anyone in this neighborhood (or many others) has any need for the
> things at which I'm adequate.  8^) Anyway, unlike the grocery store, the
> community garden donates pounds of food to locals whose income is below
> the poverty line and to some shelters.  Safeway and Albertson's do
> charity work, but it's that large-scale, impersonal type charity.  These
> smaller scale donations increase the interpersonal interactions within
> the neighborhood, effectively mixing the well off with the homeless.  4
> of the plots are actually gardened by local families below the poverty
> line.  They have enough to pay rent at the low income housing about 1
> mile away, but very little else.  This gives them a chance to garden
> with their kids using resources provided by the neighborhood.
>

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