Habitat for Health
Informal Economy*
An informal economy (informal sector or grey economy) is the part of any economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Although the informal sector makes up a significant portion of the economies in developing countries, it is sometimes stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable. However, the informal sector provides critical economic opportunities for the poor and has been expanding rapidly since the 1960s. Integrating the informal economy into the formal sector is an important policy challenge for anyone.
GAIA Fan Club - Economic Opportunity for Members
Members of the GAIA Fan Club receive investment advice and payment alternatives based on their current housing income percentage in order to be eligible to buy, rent, or sell co-owned holdings. Habitat for Health actively instructs and assists interested parties in creating their own co-owned Permaculture designed land, with community assistance as available or needed.
Habitat for Health
GAIA Fan Club
The Network State*
Description
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.
It is now feasible to build million-person online communities, start billion-dollar digital currencies, and architect buildings in VR to then crowdfund into reality. The Network State* concept stacks together many existing technologies, rather than requiring the invention of new ones — like Mars-capable rockets, or permanent-habitation seasteads.
At the same time, it avoids the obvious pathways of election, revolution, and war – all of which turn ugly, and none of which provide much venue for individual initiative.
In other words, The Network State* takes the most robust existing tech stack we have – namely, the suite of technologies built around the internet – and uses it to route around political roadblocks, without waiting for future physical innovation.
The GAIA Fan Club members are taught ways to invest, choose pay options based on percentage of their current income, to qualify to own, rent, or sell. Habitat for Health actively teaches and supports stakeholders to build their own Permaculture co-owned land with Community help as necessary.
GAIA Fan Club Agrees
Science Matters
It’s time to ditch the lawn and go natural!*
Massive fields of non-native turf-grass that suck up enormous amounts of water and require more pesticides than farms — that’s largely what urban and suburban areas in Canada and the U.S. have become. Lawns are a colonial relic, once seen as a sign of wealth and privilege. But those who want to convert theirs to something more useful, such as wildflower or food gardens and pollinator habitats, face hurdles.
That’s in part because many municipal governments and some homeowner associations prescribe what people can and can’t do with their yards. With growing water scarcity and rapidly declining insect populations, the movement to allow greater freedom in yard design and care is growing.
A group of conservationists in Canada — including the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, Canadian Wildlife Federation, David Suzuki Foundation, Ecological Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and author and environmental advocate Lorraine Johnson — recently published an open letter urging municipal bylaw reforms to support habitat garden development.
With growing water scarcity and rapidly declining insect populations, the movement to allow greater freedom in yard design and care is growing.
“When urban agriculture flourishes, our children are healthier and smarter about what they eat, fewer people are hungry, more local jobs are created, local economies are stronger, our neighborhoods are greener and safer, and our communities are more inclusive.”
Peter Ladner: The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities
The GAIA Fan Club © (GFC) holds license to club properties as do co-owners in proportion to their own share holds. Wealth is accrued and measured as a factor of time paid forward into individual GFC estates. Individuals are paid time credits and other forms of capital into their own GFC time bank. GFC co-owned property can be exchanged, shared, leased, or rented. In the event of co-owned property sale outright the property can be assessed for taxes if required.
H4H Permaculture is focused on sequential plantings both indoors and outdoors to provide year-round produce for the eco-village and surplus sales to nearby customers as part of an ecological food supply, employment, and economic opportunities. He bases this on Bill Mollison's award-winning theories and practices.
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system.
— Bill Mollison
The goals of H4H + GFC are to create cooperatively owned Eco Villages. Trusties are collective owners of individual leaseholds. Permaculture methods are used to manage land on their own and cooperatively to lower settlement design costs as new restorative ecological and agricultural economic opportunities arise.
Individuals, couples, families, and neighbours collectively own a GFC Farm as parcels of land. Each individual land parcel is developed as the owner sees fit, similar to condominium strata ownership. The differences are mainly occupancy density and property development with a variety of options for ecological recovery, habitation, rental, lease, joint ownership, or individual sale.
Time Bank Coin can be exchanged for GAIA Fan Club products and services or exchanged for money or other coin valued products. Habitat for Health supplies housing kits, employment, and education using Permaculture ways and means to get what a person needs to live long and prosper in style. Money may be included but is not necessary for a learn as you earn, DIY, healthy, wealthy life.
To establish cooperatively owned eco-villages that employ Permaculture to autonomously and collaboratively manage land to divide settlement design expenses and unlock novel restorative ecological and agricultural economic prospects, Habitat for Health extends an invitation to individuals, couples, families, and neighbours seeking more cost-effective Time Bank methods to co-own property with numerous alternatives for habitats, rental, lease, joint ownership, or sale.