FAQ

An Earth Community society will feature balanced relationships between people, people and nature, and individual and community interests. It will look rather like most people’s vision of a healthy society before advertisers started messing with our minds and values to create a culture of material excess.

Imagine

Imagine a time machine has projected you into a future in which Earth Community prevails. You find yourself in a world of culturally vital middle class communities nestled together in the midst of lush farmlands and natural habitats.

Most people, including most economists, have no idea how money is created. I once had an image in my head of money being created when rolls off the presses of the U.S. Mint. Most of the world's money, however, is created when a bank issues a loan. The basics are quite simple. The bank opens an account in the name of the borrower and enters a number in that account against which the borrower can make withdrawals in cash, write checks, or order electronic transfers.