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Sustainable
and stylish: Moneyless Man says it's possible
to build for free. Photograph: Simon Dale/Lammas |
From Earthships to underground houses, The Moneyless Man
says building low-impact housing for free is theoretically possible.
Access to land is one of the key obstacles in our path
towards true sustainability, and without a radical shift in land policies, a
moneyless society will remain what it is today – a philosophical one.
But if you do want to become communally-sufficient and
moneyless, you'll first need access to a piece of land. While this is not a
problem in the Hammersmith of William Morris's News
from Nowhere or Thomas More's Utopia,
within today's society it usually means the land needs to be bought, even if
just as a one-off payment to free a piece of enslaved land from the wage
economy. But there are exceptions.
In the 1950s, Vinoba Bhave set up a huge movement called
Bhoodan (meaning land-gift) in India, to which ordinary landowners donated 5m
acres – an area the size of Wales – to be put back into common ownership so
that peasants could live and farm on it. While western culture makes such a
movement unlikely, it's never impossible. For example, Hugh Fearnley
Whittingstall's Landshare project matches those who have
land but need help with it with those who can help but have no access to land.
And it's growing rapidly. (Read further: Source)
Related links: Off The Grid & Moneyless Living
Related links: Off The Grid & Moneyless Living
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