With Mark Boyle - author of 'The Moneyless Man' and founder of Freeconomy
And Molly Scott-Cato -
Green Economist, author and founder of the Stroud Pound
A free talk, 3-4pm, followed by a workshop for discussion til 6pm
Sunday 22nd May at the Friends Meeting House, York Street
What happens when we live without money and how is this possible? Does our relationship with money need to change to support both ecology and economics? Come, listen, be inspired and share your ideas.
This is a FREE talk and workshop, starting at 3pm with talks from Molly and Mark, followed by a tea, cake and a workshop for discussing ideas. The venue is the Friends Meeting House, York Street,
BA1 1NG
- that's just round the corner from the Abbey.
Molly Scott-Cato
has been working as a green economist for five years. Her approach to economics is to seek to replace capitalism with an economic system which is benign for people and the planet.
Why should economics have become of so much interest to people in the Green movement? Greens are characterised by their concern for the planet, for people and animals. So the field of economics, with its abstract mathematical models and it concentration on concepts such as 'growth' and 'money' might seem alien territory; and so it has proved.
Yet for a long while now, many in the environmental and Green movements have realised that the heart of our problem lies not in the actions which destroy the environment, but in the economic system which causes them.
Read more here...
 Mark Boyle
has become known for living without money - a step he took initially for 12 months, which became a lifestyle he wanted to continue. Initially writing a blog for The Guardian - which you can read
here
- his journey through this time is now documented in his book,
The Moneyless Man.
Mark is also the founder of the Freeconomy Community, which aims to help reconnect people in their local communities through the simple act of sharing. You can visit their website at
www.justfortheloveofit.org, and watch an interview with Mark below.
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