While favoring both safety nets and trampolines, I would focus more on
systemic changes in the economy that would reduce the creation of poverty
Not exact matches
For all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can
in turn create
systemic change for our
economy as a whole.
It will take citizens working
in their own communities, region by region, to create the kind of
systemic change that will lead to sustainable economic practices — practices that foster ecologically responsible production of goods and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Local currencies are a tool to bring about such
change. BerkShares are about building community while building the local
economy.