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#BuyNothing is definitely a hashtag to get behind for the upcoming holidays 
make your own stuff, reuse, recycle, but don't buy into the big buying spree 
#consumerism #dontdoit
Boycotts are one of the best ways to get Wall Street's attention. Making money off of you is all they care about. If you don't give them your money and tell them why, they will stop supporting politicians and laws that hurt their bottom line.
So don't buy consumer gifts this holiday season. Have fun, have experiences, make stuff yourself, then eat and drink and be merry. And keep your money in your pocket.
Today was a busy day!
We held our regular Solidarity Market where members of the community bring things they don't need anymore and people can come take what they need for free. It's always a great time, and everyone appreciates keeping things out of the landfill while reducing the need to buy new things for themselves. We also get to know everyone who comes - they're not anonymous recipients but new friends.
Our #HamRadio group also had an event today in a local park for a special lesson about antennas where they got to build an antenna themselves from a fishing pole and speaker wire. Such fun!
We have been gifted some pawpaw, fig, and peach tree seedlings and our food gardening team is now working on plans for them and also making plans to winterize our beds. We had a great year, especially for tomatoes and peppers, and we're excited to start planning next year's gardens, including some new beds people in the community are giving us in their yards.
“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
― Murray Bookchin
#MutualAid #Degrowth #BuyNothing #SolidarityEconomy #GiftEconomy
#Capitalism
Anyone around the area of #DoverNJ #MorrisCountyNJ #NewJersey is welcome to join us for our intermittent, semi-regular free mending event where we come together to restore, salvage, or upcycle clothing. No experience necessary - you can learn or you can share your knowledge, if you have some, while we share some quality time together.
#MutualAid is #Skillshares, #abundance, #community, #relationships, #sustainability, #anticapitalist, #NoWaste #BuyNothing
Message us or email info@mutualmorris.com if you have questions or to let us know you're coming.
#MutualOranges is one of our sibling #MutualAid groups in #NewJersey and they invite all to join their "Share & Playdate" for all ages tomorrow, Sunday, August 31, from 1:00 to 3:30pm at Clipper Pavilion at Orange Reservoir in #WestOrangeNJ!
This is an opportunity to come together to share:
- Skills
- Resources (clothes, books, etc.)
- Questions and conversation
- Stories and Songs
- Projects you've been working on
- Presentations or displays of information you want to share
- Community
There will be a #BuyNothing blanket, lending library, button-making supplies, #COVID tests, #ArtsAndCrafts materials, and more!
This is a mask-on event! Masking is required at Mutual Oranges events for everyone who is able to mask.
Questions? Contact mutualoranges@proton.me
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@Dennis5891 I know. The trend is #BuyNothing or #BuyLess to keep stuff from ending up in landfills, but the article is making it out to be "financial advice".
On the off chance that someone on the fediverse has a Solo Stove -- Bonfire size -- and wants a heat deflector with case, we've got one to pass along. It's supposed to radiate the heat further outward but ours is plenty hot, given the size of the area where we have it.
DM me if interested; you pay only shipping costs via electronic payment...
We don't need 3 digital scales in our house so we are giving this one away. Free to anyone local for a drop-off/pick-up; pay for shipping via Ground Advantage for others. Uses two button batteries, CR2032
More details here:
https://www.amazon.com/Escali-Countertop-Nutrition-15-Pound-Capacity/dp/B0051ABGG6?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1
Edit to add: Measures about 6"W x 8"L x 1"H (all approximate)
![The image of the scale itself looks like it is a rounded gray rectangle but with controls at the bottom: in the lower left is a circle with the word TARE in it; next to it is another circle with the word HOLD. On the lower right is a circle with the word UNIT [of measurement], and next to that is the digital symbol for POWER/ON/OFF. In the middle of those four items is a darker rectangle for the display where the weight would appear; it currently shows a large 0 with a small g [grams] in the upper right of the display. And centered beneath the display is the word Escali, in a bold, italic sort of script-like font.](https://mspimages.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/813/135/651/920/480/original/0ba1e71b56780492.png "The image of the scale itself looks like it is a rounded gray rectangle but with controls at the bottom: in the lower left is a circle with the word TARE in it; next to it is another circle with the word HOLD. On the lower right is a circle with the word UNIT [of measurement], and next to that is the digital symbol for POWER/ON/OFF. In the middle of those four items is a darker rectangle for the display where the weight would appear; it currently shows a large 0 with a small g [grams] in the upper right of the display. And centered beneath the display is the word Escali, in a bold, italic sort of script-like font.")
Some say the dog who went before greets y'all in the whatever after. I say there's an intelligent,beautiful tuxedo cat ready to ignore you, or not. #caturday #tuxedocats #alberta #buynothing
Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:
• The pros and cons of corporate support of #Pride, with @ginoc, @daynaellis, and Giulio Serafini
• A 1st-person perspective on an #ICE #protest, by @agreenjay
• An analysis of the “long decade” of #ClassicRock, from 1969-81, by Jesse Owen
• The joys of a #BuyNothing group, by Eda Benjakul
• Making meaningful friendships in midlife, by Vijay Solanki
https://medium.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-losing-corporate-pride-979569585913
How would you like to do a #buynothing day every week?
#resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #gifteconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety #selfsufficientcommunities #selfsufficiency #diylife #selfreliance #offgrid #ecovillages #ecovillage #anarchism #anarchocommunism #communism #socialism #libertarianism #leftism #intentionalcommunity
#climatechange #antiwork #volunteering #simpleliving #sustainableliving
#solarpunk #anticonsumerism
My fifth small quilt of the new year, and my first using half-square triangles; it's for a niece who wanted something unusual. All the fabric is either second-use or scraps from a neighbor via #buynothing Some machine sewing, a lot of handsewing. Getting better at the binding and corners, I think. #quilt #quilting #blackandwhite
In protest, the only things Americans will be buying are groceries. It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries. It sort of says a bag with different things in it.
#Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon #EconomicGrowth as an objective.
By Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, 12 December 2022
Excerpt: "The global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed. This dynamic is driving climate change and ecological breakdown. High-income economies, and the corporations and wealthy classes that dominate them, are mainly responsible for this problem and consume energy and materials at unsustainable rates.
"Yet many industrialized countries are now struggling to grow their economies, given economic convulsions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, resource scarcities and stagnating productivity improvements. Governments face a difficult situation. Their attempts to stimulate growth clash with objectives to improve human well-being and reduce environmental damage.
"GDP is getting a makeover — what it means for economies, health and the planet
"Researchers in ecological economics call for a different approach — degrowth. Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (#GDP) as a goal, scale down destructive and unnecessary forms of #production to reduce energy and material use, and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This approach, which has gained traction in recent years, can enable rapid #decarbonization and stop ecological breakdown while improving social outcomes. It frees up energy and materials for low- and middle-income countries in which growth might still be needed for development. Degrowth is a purposeful strategy to stabilize economies and achieve social and ecological goals, unlike recession, which is chaotic and socially destabilizing and occurs when growth-dependent economies fail to grow.
"Reports this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (#IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on #Biodiversity and #Ecosystem Services (#IPBES) suggest that degrowth policies should be considered in the fight against #ClimateBreakdown and #biodiversity loss, respectively. Policies to support such a strategy include the following.
"Reduce less-necessary production. This means scaling down destructive sectors such as #FossilFuels, mass-produced meat and dairy, #FastFashion, #advertising, #cars and aviation, including #PrivateJets. At the same time, there is a need to end the #PlannedObsolescence of products, lengthen their lifespans and reduce the purchasing power of the #rich.
"Improve #PublicServices. It is necessary to ensure universal access to high-quality #HealthCare, #Education, #Housing, transportation, Internet, #RenewableEnergy and nutritious food. #UniversalPublicServices can deliver strong social outcomes without high levels of resource use.
"Introduce a green jobs guarantee. This would train and mobilize labour around urgent social and ecological objectives, such as installing renewables, insulating buildings, regenerating #ecosystems and improving social care. A programme of this type would end unemployment and ensure a just transition out of jobs for workers in declining industries or 'sunset sectors', such as those contingent on fossil fuels. It could be paired with a #UniversalIncome policy.
"Reduce working time. This could be achieved by lowering the retirement age, encouraging part-time working or adopting a four-day working week [and hybrid or remote work]. These measures would lower #CarbonEmissions and free people to engage in care and other welfare-improving activities. They would also stabilize employment as less-necessary production declines.
"Enable #sustainable development. This requires cancelling unfair and unpayable debts of low- and middle-income countries, curbing unequal exchange in international trade and creating conditions for productive capacity to be reoriented towards achieving social objectives.
"Some countries, regions and cities have already introduced elements of these policies. Many European nations guarantee free health care and education; Vienna and Singapore are renowned for high-quality public housing; and nearly 100 cities worldwide offer free public transport. Job guarantee schemes have been used by many nations in the past, and experiments with basic incomes and shorter working hours are under way in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"But implementing a more comprehensive strategy of degrowth — in a safe and just way — faces five key research challenges, as we outline here."
Read more:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AtJ87
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #HybridWork #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #RightToRepair #ProtectMotherEarth #CorporateColonialism #BuyLess #BuyNothing #LibraryOfThings #SolarPunkSunday
www.nature.comDegrowth can work — here’s how science can helpWealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.
I love how #Linux, unlike #Windows, never bogs my computer down. Neither in the sense that an old Windows installation gets all grotty and slow with accumulated registry gunk, nor in the sense that Windows eventually forces you to upgrade to a version that is too computing-heavy in itself for a 5-y-o machine.