flowerbug
Sustainability Master
this is an aside but it fits with the topic of food distribution centers and i find it interesting:
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In Auroville, the universal township where I live, there is an amazing project called Pour Tous (‘for everyone’ in French) Distribution Center. It is a food cooperative where all the members pay a fixed amount per month. In return they can take whatever they need from the shop. There are no price tags on anything, so when you leave the shop, you do not know how much you spent and whether you have taken goods beyond the value of your monthly contribution or not. This makes people really think about what is a real need and what is merely a ‘want’.
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this is from a book i'm reading by a guy who with his family (wife and young child) moved to India and bought some land and started living a life they wanted to live (restoring a certain type of forest and living a more direct way with nature). this is not the kind of life that most people are living now or want to live, but i've followed them for some years now to see what happens next.
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In Auroville, the universal township where I live, there is an amazing project called Pour Tous (‘for everyone’ in French) Distribution Center. It is a food cooperative where all the members pay a fixed amount per month. In return they can take whatever they need from the shop. There are no price tags on anything, so when you leave the shop, you do not know how much you spent and whether you have taken goods beyond the value of your monthly contribution or not. This makes people really think about what is a real need and what is merely a ‘want’.
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this is from a book i'm reading by a guy who with his family (wife and young child) moved to India and bought some land and started living a life they wanted to live (restoring a certain type of forest and living a more direct way with nature). this is not the kind of life that most people are living now or want to live, but i've followed them for some years now to see what happens next.
