How the Growth Economy Became Holy: The Road from Greed to Creed
Here, before us, we have a pretty
self-sufficient farm family, whose only wants outside what they produce
are some metal utensils, glass, fine cloth, perhaps, refined sugar,
flour and meal, coffee or tea. Up the hollow is a wired old coot digging
some coal and iron out of the
earth and, with his sons, building a furnace to smelt iron. Down the road is a little country store and
water powered grist mill, where farmers can get their grains milled for
a fourth of the product. You get the picture. It's a community in early
nineteenth century Virginia or
Ohio or New York. Many dozens of places. Little or no money used or needed. No great expectations.
How do we get from there to here in
two hundred years? Read
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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