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Update jul '11 Studio. Briefs 2' in order of year of birth and plus Paine, Tolstoi, Morris, Henry George, Kropotkin, Howard. Biblio. A new intro and some more titles under Books'. Extra titles of course via Bibliographies' and Libraries', which are less passively looked after. An active approach also, without plunging into Google books 'self-sufficiency', in Books before 1970'. Bookstores' and Publishers' present now by sponsored links only, which leaves the listings pretty empty. Museum/exhibition' is removed until coming back with appropriate content. As for Magazines, articles', Articles' being enlarged with various qualitative items, sources of which are sometimes interesting too. Sites. Some cleaning and rearranging of links, several new. Basis income guarantee, wikipedia' (Sites, more general, socio-economic): André Gorz being elsewhere not a great fan of 'self-sufficiency', a basic income as ar- gued removes a major obstacle to it and sets an effective halt to 'dying villages'. Also present 'asset-based egalitarianism' (Thomas Paine) and 'collective resource ownership' offer interesting background to Basic property, see Studio, and will e- ventually be explored later. The impressive Funding paragraph could be extended with an 'every monetary transaction 'tax' ', see Studio, Sustainable, Money. Sites, residence, water. New subheading Desert irrigation. Introducing some sea- water solutions to it, including Studio's Seawater irrigator, consisting of pipeline with nearby domes wherein evaporation and condensation. Outside trees and plants produce for local consumption. Sites, residence, other handicraft, technology. New subheadings Diy, Arts and crafts, Experimental archeology. To provide with more content in due time, suppor- ting various practical purposes of 'self-production'. Arts and crafts' partly for histori- cal reasons, being a forerunner of diy crafts. Sites, residence, communes, communities. Utopia britannica' giving extra histori- cal depth to the various communities. ------------------------ ^ |
On self-production
aug '11 Mainly common as self-production of music (cd, clip), sometimes of films. A producer looking after the financial, organizational and commercial management of film/music production, self-production is a diy solution to it. In most cases this self-production has markets in mind to sell the product in the form of cd, clip, film. Self-production for markets however is something else than production for oneself, being an individual, family, locality, town, city, nation, continent, or even a factory or company. Focus on locality, the area wherein self-production takes place, and with exclu- sion of nation, continent etc. for reasons of transport (energy, pollution, materials, work), of scale, of ... , gives the following self-productive producers/consumers: separate households, villages, towns, cities. Also, self-production of some as well as of many of the goods and services con- sumed may be the case in these socio-economic units. To produce most or at least a fair share of those items 1 by intention or in fact, describes 'self-produc- tion' well understood, in theory and in practice. Thus giving these units a percentage 2 of self-production. Which grows by produ- cing more within the locality and or by consuming less products and some servi- ces externally produced. Other aspects . Production by the local entity for the local entity, as far as actual situations and transitional possibilities reach, is in case of multiple producers: family, communi- ty, village etc., a more 'collective' than individual effort, including a variety of possi- ble forms of labour division and styles of production/consumption. 3 The low external output plus low external input of the economies being no goal per se, but serving environmental, ecological, sustainable purposes together with hu- mane labour conditions, efficient satisfaction of needs, direct and indirect improve- ment of health and wellbeing. Transition and fresh starts By gradually changing individual and more collective consumption and production patterns (diy), separate households as well as greater units may evolve towards higher degrees of self-production. No great effort to do so, often saving money and living healthier at the same time, especially when adequate social stimuli develop. However, doing 'the real thing' requires some land in the first place and, apart from habits and skills, money to start with plus a supplementary income on a regular basis to cover a necessary margin of imports. Although there are several ways sometimes to meet these second conditions, in all their natural simplicity and 'poverty', highly self-productive households are fre- quently impossible to start or to maintain by those motivated to do so. Living a far less ecologic and rather expensive life because of rent, transports and other cost of living, working hard and not always pleasantly, yet unable to save enough to change to a healthier, more natural living. And apart from skills and monetary requirments, sufficient like-minded people in the locality, a decent green culture and attractive social status in the wider socie- ty, are factors to underestimate easily. Research and development . Hardly a subject of progressive and experimental science 4 (nor of business 5) the new 'direct economy' could organize itself likewise by applicating scientific rules of analysis and experiment. 6 A one acre model 7 thereby a comparable 'format'. The researchers trying to live well from it, in theory, in practice. Minimal imports and exports of goods and some services, frugal use of technology, of electronics, of cars, ... . Funding of modest start and regular supplementary incomes by participants and or sponsors. Whatever the earnings in money, difficult as they often are to arrange , disruption of a self-production aimed holding by market schemes should be avoi- ded. A basic income (a right to land part of it) could thereby make a difference, potentially revitalizing village and country life a lot. ------------------------------- 1 Partly or complete. 2 Expressed in monetary value, in weight (transportation of ideas, of seeds by walking holidays give no environmental or energy problems ) and other relevant variables. 3 Economics of self-production. Which products and how, tools, animals, imports. The latter, balanced by exports, kept at a reasonable minimum. 4 Some attention to third world subsistence economies and homegardens in connection often with development strategies. 5 To earn money by self-production is contradictory, apart from indirect earning by not spending. To earn money by the product 'self-production': books, courses, ready made self-productive gardens (high in income in kind) or even houses, is in cases of 'self-sufficiency' and 'permaculture' slightly present. 6 Of greater human interest perhaps than 'cold nuclear fusion' and easier to de- monstrate, no scientists yet flocking to experimental one acre fields. 7 Of mediocre fertility and per adult. Trees for nuts, fruits, firewood, timber, useful bushes, plants, grass, etc. etc. In case of more substantial agricultural production for markets (supplementary income) extra terrain is added. ------------------------------------------ ^ |