Freeconomy Blog
Thu
04 Feb
Criticisms
A few weeks ago, just after the Guardian Film came out, I got a phone call from a woman who has been doing an experiment where her and her family have resolved to put zero waste in landfill in 2010. A few of the national papers picked up on the story, and with that came the inevitable criticism from the public. Not only that, but somebody out there was so outraged by their efforts to minimise their ecological impact that they decided to dump loads of rubbish bags on her front doorstep.
Fri
22 Jan
Money as Debt
I've got to apologise for the lack of blogging activity over the last week or two; the Honesty Experiment was only meant to run for a week, but due to my own lack of time it became two weeks by default. Which backfired on me, the questions in the first seven days were tame, and it wasn't until last week that the taboo subjects finally came out. That'll teach me.
Sat
09 Jan
The Honesty Experiment
I love experimenting with life, I think it's a fantastic adventure to be explored to it's fullest, and I want to see how things could be, both personally and socially, if we changed certain aspects of it in all sorts of ways. For example, we all pay lip-service to honesty, and we often suggest that we see it as one of the main characteristics we really admire in others.
Tue
05 Jan
What are you going to say?
Last night's New Year's Party 2027, was the best one I can remember in years. We all needed it to be honest, the news throughout 2026 was something else. The predictions I heard from scientists back in my late twenties hadn't just come true, they were completely surpassed. So we went out on a big one at the Bar69, a corporate chain bar who now owned 80% of the bars in town. I left my 11 year old child with the babysitter, and drank to forget.
Sat
02 Jan
New Year's Revolutions
Most of us woke up yesterday morning deciding to give the intestinal tract of 2009 a complete colonic irrigation, using things such as nicotine patches, diet books, gym subscriptions and sworn oaths as the metaphorical enemas to clean out the faecal waste of all that has ever gone before in our lives.
Fri
25 Dec
Happy Christmas!
I just want to say a huge Happy Christmas (and Winter Solstice!) to all of you, and a massive THANK YOU for being part of Freeconomy over the last year, whether it be helping and sharing with people in your local community, or joining the debates on this blog.
Sat
12 Dec
Everything is OK
The deadline for my book, The Moneyless Man, which is an account of my year without money and the philosofree behind it, is at the end of this month, and I still have over half of it to write and edit. So as you can imagine every second of rapid finger movement is going into that at the moment.
Mon
07 Dec
The Freeconomy Freastival 2009
Last Saturday, on Buy Nothing Day 2009, my year without money officially came to an end. Ten months ago, in the midst of the January snows that blanketed the hills where I live, I envisaged myself sitting back, celebrating in front of a warm fire, having a pint of my favourite organic ale with my mates down the local. No such luck. Instead I decided to organise what eventually grew into a mini one day free feast and festival.