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Co-Housing

After, the house meltdown in US, not only affected the owners in US, but the world economy, how, the situation got to this stage, since the 1930s, the upper class has been in denial, they, economy base on Social Darwinism, and the two schools which define British Economic though regulation as control, and not regulation. In the 1980´s after the inflation economy, using the idea: everything has a price, and the concentration to the wealth should be to a small group, they decide and trickle down the wealth, but the free marketers, did only will take place after all the safe-guards will be remove. In effect one important, safe-guard the banks can not be used funds as investors. 

The consequence, not just the greed, but using bank deposit, originally the idea was to privatize social security, they become the funds, but the Democratic congress did not when along, the Chile as example, where originally the public retirement funds become privatize, but in the 1980s the risk, and losing some the funds, reverted given option to kept the funding in public hands or private investment, 95% return to public and only 5% was kept in private hands. Because, the deny of retirement fund as capital, and from Enron experience, where creative accounting, bough down the company, where the Managers, encourage their own employers to buy the company shares, and the Managers, where selling, because the company was collapsing, since they debt was off shore in fictitious companies, and the books transmuted deb from red ink to a profit. The banks pray the US the wealth value is measure on wealth, and the wealth is based on house, the encourage the home owners to used their houses private banks, and the wealth was house cost, with the assumption the value of the house will increased, and the second victims were the renters, where the promise house ownership as the cost of their rent, of course house ownership, have fees and this fees are more than rent itself, the lenders deferred 3 years, in the hype of the propaganda 2006  in the State of the Union, the president George W Busch proclaim now more low milled class and the poor have the American Dream, so wealth was under reach, when 2008 come all this forces in place created the meltdown. But the deception did not ended with help of the rating Agencies the deb was transform in great investments, through the London the financial system, introduced to Europe, on paper the borrows, first time and second mortgages, where excellence investment. For the home owners the long the value increase in the case of second mortgages, or the fees where included works, but then, bubble burst and the economic meltdown of 2008 began as chain reaction, from house to auto industry and 4.5 Million home owners lost their place. In Europe they left with the investments of empty houses. The wealth created from the pyramided skin, did not tricked down, and the wealth was not invested in infra-structure, bridges started to collapse, and without railway system and public transportation or education become privatize, was outreach, in US not just a wealth inequality, but permanent underclass, but the seed of popular revolution, while in US race is heart of the issue, but demographics where not minority is the majority and the white society demographically decreased, a social confrontation. When member of congress, tell the population, does not expect financial relieve, only if your 1% of the population or the banks, and today, some developers start using crow sourcing to invest in house developments, and the same mistake of greed taken place, eventually, the development will collapse and individual wealth will be lost.

After the trauma, the question become how to resolved loss of the house, in Spain where many families where dislodge by the banks from their house, some made occupation of their own house, force was used to obtain the dislodge, the question what will be solution, today more the ever is possible to be off the grid, using wind, bio-gas, micro-hydro and solar power.

In the 1960s co-housing originated in Denmark, the philosophy was intentional community, based on social community, where the house become from the born to the last days, with flexibility to growth children to adults. The ownership of the house, can be setup cooperatives, house associations or condominiums, the house itself can follow Japanese philosophy, using the materials of the region and practicality, the way of live is not based on consumption, and manage as non-hierarchical structure employing a consensus decision-making model, the off the grid should use from the consumption of water, to the disposal, for example using wetlands is way to recycle the water, and the effort should be obtain land closed to water source, independent of the private or public water supplied, and with access or easy construction of public transportation, ray is most efficient and access to local business.

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Bonsai Forest

Microfactory

A decentralize economy, not bases on consumption, described by Carson in: Home Brew Industrial Revolution (2010), Proundhon and Kropotkin´s in Fields, Factories and Workshops of Tomorrow, the economy can be consider by Heying: Brew to Bikes: Portlands Artisan Economy, while this type of economy where an individual or Guilds drive the economy was overshadow by the industrial revolution and consumption economy, where mass production and oil.

A main drive for the industrial revolution was to low the price and have more access to the products, and to achieve was the need to low cost of the energy, carbon and eventually oil. To facilitate this ends, not only the energy cost, but introduction of mass productions in farms through mechanization, migrations from the farms to cities become industrial production. The other period of a mercantile economy was the driven, in the 19´th the British Empire, where the access to natural resource, minerals to cheap organic products, the empire from India, Caribbean and Africa.

In US the Guilder age of the 19 century excesses culminated with the great depression, the fear of the elite in US at the time, after the Russian Revolutions, set in place a safeguards against this excess, especially banks they were not allot to enter into speculation with deposits monies. In 1980´s in the supply economy of the Regan years, Milton, created myth, the reason the great depression was not due of the lack safe-guards, but to many. The first meltdown, because economy is not a sciences, is a pseudo-sciences not different to Astrology or Alchemy, where in the seal of idealize system, where people behavior can be quantified avoid to deal with culture, psychology or the irrationality of humans, because this factors like many other cannot be quantified, at beast economics should be consider as part psychology. This error, by NAFTA, Clinton years, shifting industrial based to a service economy, and the Industrial zones in Mexico eventually, special economic zones in China. The meltdown of 2008, in part, because safe-guards lift in the 1990´s where the banks  allot to become speculators, a plan was to privatize the social security (similar Milton approach in Chile, while in the 80´s the retirement was place in private, the 1980´s market collapse force the later government, to give option to be public hands, eventually 90% of the population stay in the public, while interest is less, the security to losing the lifesaving in speculation, prove too be much for the regular population), when the democratic congress stop this plan, the only option for the speculators was to appeal the greed, and tool was the uses of homes as private bank under assumption the value of the houses will be always up to cover the loans made against the houses, when the funds dry up the next step, to come to renters and appeal the dream of ownership, of course, not only the cost of the rent, by house ownership, have other costs, from local taxes, to interest by the bank, in generally up to 3 years can be deferred, and circular motion, spiral, when the house market collapse, the interaction cost jobs in the 4.5 Million households lose. The acceleration of the safe-guard removal, was after the Soviet experiment failure the elite (specially the human repression), did not worry for the masses of disfranchised to be able to find to alternative, but the conflict in Iraq a 1.5 billion Muslims, independent to the religious conflict, or alienation, Political Islam is a challenge (but like Soviet experiment, Political Islam is an absolutes, repression, lack of tolerance, moreover, the sense of superiority by the religion, and religious cleansing and ethnic cleansing between themselves(Shia and Sunnis), but Christians, Yasmin, Kurd are in the eyesight of process human Genocide).

In 1950´s a small office of procurement in Defense Department used different computers, but this machines did not spoke with each other, model on 19 century telegraph idea of a code, for everyone to communicated, ain a1962, supporter by DARPA, the ARPA protocols while the motivation for this decentralization, was to be to respond to the Soviet Union, where command control can be any location. Stalin with the Soviet model, included China today, historical had been under tyranny, where in China today the Communist Party under an iron fist in name of harmony, following a historical one individual rule.

Today, like many other unpredicted consequence, the computer revolution, able to have a decentralize economy a possible and DNA revolution. In both cases the Soviet Union, in case of DNA, for Ideological reasons, Lysenkoism challenge Mendelian Genetics, in part consequence due to the NAZIS, ideology base on Eugenics, and secondly the command economy cannot let free thinking growth, China today limiting access.

While, the technology is come closed, because human have alter the environment, out necessity a decentralize energy source, making a cheap energy resource using solar, wind (http://www.greenoptimistic.com/diy-wind-turbine/#.VPLoGeFNp2A), hydro, biogas, thermal, wave-energy, artificial leaves, with the 3-D printing to produce materials for individual needs (Metobics-kicks start: http://www.mebotics.com/), then economy become artesian (http://opensourceecology.org/), the use RF technology to track replace the material, using Linux and ARM, computers based on raspberry, opens source method of production from software, hardware or product (http://everythingopensource.blogspot.de/).

The Idea of Microfactories was proposed by the Mechanical Engineer Laboratory (MEL) of Japan in 1990, and today can be expand to electronics, while still in very early stages the potential, similar to the 1950s internet protocols, where use for any object based on individual needs, so far a limitation is metal used, but work is being done to replace by using liquid metals. In electronics, become close to able to produce customise circuits, the first 3-D cars (local motors-Phoenix Arizona), (a possible design, for a fly car, can good candidate for Microfactory application: http://www.urbanaero.com/category/x-hawk or a great science research: http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-icarus/)  has been achieved to the point (individualize clothing to homes: http://www.busyboo.com/2009/04/16/dome-space-homes-solaleya/; http://tinyhouseblog.com/uncategorized/scaled-solar-for-the-tiny-house-off-grid-on-the-cheap/), commercialization is open, from homes to every day product, changing, the cost, where refocus to the economy, the best run microfactory through a cooperatives, or a collectives, using DYI space, make space (https://party.webmaker.org/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FFx%26You&utm_content=featured_aug14), where anyone can use equipment and share responsibility. A industrial ware house build and modulus space, using recycle materials, or material which not depend on single costly commodity, and the value can be done an share economy, because we still living a centralize economy, an slow process can be applied to transportation, using trains, buses or loop, a hinder of course is cost of the energy storage, but there possibility, using batteries or transforming the energy into other material to be used later as energy. By bypassing, land communications with long range wife creating a networks to create a simple and least costly communication network (http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/), from wireless recharging systems used to any energy need, eliminating power providers.

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Bamboo

Off the Grid

To used energy in environmental for climate changes, there is also political consequence, of a decentralize society, since the best energy used depend on regions, combination, Solar, Wind, Biogas, micro-hydro (in many case can run a small micro-factory and a small house: the turbines: Screw Turbine: Reverse Archimedes; Gorlov: Helical Turbine free stream or constrained flow or without dam; Kaplan Turbine; Water Wheel; Gravitation water vortex power plan), to full hydraulic systems, geothermal, where the electrical production of appliances consider the minimum used of energy to  accomplish the full objective used. The open to micro-factories the used of bio-gas to run cell fuel, and individual houses using a combination of solar and wind (Stand-alone power-system), or other circumstance, were using small river stream to run micro power generators. The collection of this individual micro energy sources, become self-sufficient community, the only way to achieve this level, since the cost is possible using co-housing and cooperative houses, collective houses, can share cost. In case of Biogas Human waste can be use and recycle the water returning to the water streams. Rain water or trapping water drops can be used not only is water supplied but to run the micro-hydro.

Transition Time

WWI ended in 1917, the years between the second conflict of WWII, while the reasons for WWI, where base on aspirations of West and Ottoman Caliphate, in Nationalism and Empire construction, the between period was a transition to the Empire build on race (National Socialist in Germany), Authoritarian of  the divine, Catholic Fascist (Portugal, Spain and Italy) or Empire of the Ideology (Authoritarian Communism: where humans where classified by class, become the German Nationalism which divided by race, some president in Hindu society cast was (is) determination of the status of individual, is not coincidence in case of National Socialist in Germany, occultism drive some of the ideology, because many of the occult  thinking is based on authoritarian hierarchy, where everything and everyone fit into).

The failure of the Authoritarian communism ended with the fall of the berlin wall, and the fact the Soviet Union economy revenue was 60% on natural resource, especially oil and Capitalism Euphoria lifted the control mechanism implemented in the 1930s to control the inequality, which give rise to Racist Ideology, Catholic Fascist and the Authoritarian Communism. With the economic meltdown of 2008, because not only the international economy, in 1990´s NAFTA in US, the industrial production in US move south and eventually Asia for cheaper labour, destroying the Industrial base in US and move to Asia. In South America give the rise of the left and the Middle East Political Islam and the funding of the ideology, which included the Authoritarian and corrupt Russia, where the Orthodox Russian Church retaken a place in Russia, like in the Czar time, based on corruption, and nepotism, and desired to be an Empire.

One lesson learnt of Empire, while the power is in the aggressor hand, the relationship both ways, the influence, one of the other. Islam conquest, have given access to culture and though, in case absorbing everything, but the nature of the aggression, after is absorbed, the stop any creativity, in case of Islam: consider in many cases the societies, maintain a tribe structure or case Ottoman Empire, where tribe system was replace to a centralize state, the base build upon was tribe, when the absorbed the other culture, internally stop be creative, since one characteristic of Empire is to maintain the power Spanish Empire is another example, because the objective was to maintain what got then into power.

In case of Russia, which produce many Intellectual brake troughs, but because in the desired to maintain the power structure, the brake though where control, even in the everyday life. The Soviet State in the 1950s for ideological (nepotism: In the 1930´s the Agronomist Trofim Lysenko camping against genetic and with the support of Stalin, in part because the Eugenic moment which took place in US, taken to Germany in 1930´s by the National Socialism became the base of the Pseudo-Science, which race believe was built upon) reason suppressed the research in Genetics and for control Cybernetics (Computer Science), since the initial work done by the Defence Department in US, was to connect different machines from different suppliers, and also to decentralized the command and control, which was the opposite in Soviet Union, for ideological reasons, guaranty everyone a job for life and centralize system

The revival of the left in South America, Venezuela, has come to an stop, like the Soviet Case the revolution was funding through natural resources (Oil), the fact the oil Shale in US and Canada, has force Saudi to lower the price and Russia, committed the same error of the Soviet predecessor, since Russia corruption (the old Communist Nomenclature become the oligarchs), the lash to recreated an economic empire, where absorbing others technology brake through, Russia aggression in Ukraine base on this desired. Of, course the problem the because climate change, society energy consumption need to change, while Natural gas, and immediate production of Shale Oil, in case of Russia, many Anti-Fracking in European Union (while the objections are very valid local Earth Quakes and water pollution), was supported by the Russia, since Russian especially the East Europe, for more than 50 years was integrated to the Soviet Empire, Russia wanted to revived the old structure to control East Europe, but not just an environmental energy production, but a decentralized energy, challenge the power.

The economic collapse of 2008, and the Middle East Economics, with a big working young population, but not industrial base, the cash for the consumptions based on Natural resources, with the climate changes send many people into country side into cities and exacerbated, where an authoritarian political structure, by Individual, family, majority or minority ethnic groups, and lack of opportunity created space for a revolution, given space to political Islam, which in name of International Religion, in exchange of submission to Religious Authority structure. In China where, Communist party have authoritarian control, but limiting the social liberties, limiting the access to the power and limiting creativity, will limited the time life of the political structure.