We need more makers, and we need more people supporting makers. Imagine if when something broke you could call someone who'd make you one that will last for your lifetime and, with some easy, light repairs, your childrens' lifetime too? Capitalism would collapse
What would a #maker collective aimed at making a second economy like this look like? Lemme see that brainstorming in the comments
brainstorming on the top of my head, around 1000 characters
@socalledunitedstates As you may recall, we are doing something like that in my area, and present it at common spaces next Monday (very excited by it).
Our approach follows some permaculture guidelines, we'll see how that goes but seems solid to me.
* start small. You have 300 ideas? Start with 2-3 max. We are going to go with home/community composting and food production - that's it. Rest will slowly come, if there is some good response
* harvest and store energy. Try to integrate with other projects. Building stuff from scratch is exciting, but time and energy consuming. We are going to help in circular economy projects, but we don't want or need our name and control over it.
* Make things easy. Contact you should be easy. Understand what you are doing should be easy. Invest some time in the communication and documentation side of things
* Obtain a yield. Don't get caught in "symbolic" actions. It's nice to do something to bring a point across, but the environment needs real, impacting actions, and we need that stuff done (as makers), or that food ready, as growers.
Hope those points can help... as much as your blog helped us :)
