Chairman OSCA

VPO is currently at work marshalling the support, expertise and resources necessary to create a demonstration sustainable neighborhood (DSN) for the post-peak-oil period – what VPO member Jon Cooksey semi-whimsically calls a Kunstler Village, after James Kunstler, the peak oil writer. Entirely off the grid, graywater system recycling all wastewater and sewage, everyone growing their own food to extent possible, possibly doing co-op transportation, etc. The works.
Clearly, as a demonstration proj… Continue

Every time there is an exchange of goods and services, outside of the trades defined as 'barter', there is an equal and opposite exchange of money. The 'free market' of goods and services can not exist alone without the 'free market' of money, and money is not free. It is a commodity that is essential to the functioning of any economy and it is an oligopoly (like oil) that is manufactured, controlled and priced by cartels of bankers. What bankers do would be called price fixing in any other indu… Continue

Send your idea to Michael of the 'Inventions R US Group and within 90 days you will get a reply from the BG Consulting Group.
I received my answer from Bernard Garnier of BG Consulting announcing that as of 1 Jan 2009 BG will be concentrating their efforts on "US project by US company or US citizens".

Then the next thing you have to do is publish on the internet.

I punched the ends out pop cans and using a 2x3 steel stud to align them glued them together with silicone to form tubes about 7 ft… Continue

Fundamental knowledge to run a sustainable economy

In every negotiation or trade transaction there are 3 elements - Value – Wealth – Power.

These 3 elements (domains) masquerade as one another in much the same way as a word may be either – subject – object – verb in a sentence. Generally speaking Value is the subject of a transaction, Wealth is the object, and Power is the verb (force) that drives the bargain.

To identify the different elements in a transaction one must ask – who gets what? -… Continue

The world has 32 billion acres of bio-productive land and over 6 billion people so we only have 5.3 acres per person which we share (or perhaps should share) with all the other subspecies. The problem is that North Americans use 24 acres per person, Chinese 4 and Indians 1.9 acres per person. On a global level each human uses 6.9 acres which is obviously not sustainable.
The solution to problems of environmental degradation and resource depletion will not be solved by one person with one idea. W… Continue