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The local living Economy of the Piscobamba River Watershed Regenerative Bioregion
By Walter Moora
My dream, which I share with a small group in Vilcabamba, is to create a sovereign watershed. Tumianuma is a good start in this direction. As time goes on, there can be more and more communities that grow most of their own food. Eventually the watershed will be close to food self-sufficient. This would be our first step in becoming sovereign in food.
For quite a few years a small group has been meeting to design our watershed. It would include small scale entrepreneurship, organic farming, water management and retention. Socially we would include support for the elderly and needy and good education and activities for the children and youth.
To support all this we will need a new economic platform that keeps the money in the community. We do have a local digital coin that is part of Local Scale .https://localscale.org
LocalScale is a public benefit organization focusing on the development of resilient and sustainable local economies through the use of technology. However we did not launch it yet, as we felt that we had to create the right community environment that would support it.
Personally, and I am sure that many would agree, humanities consciousness has changed so much that we do not need big government telling us how to run our lives. This is why the bioregion concept is taking off. We watch and see everything around us collapsing. Our little watershed, called the Piscabamba watershed is ideal for creating an island of light. Our dream is that there will be many islands of light around the world. Each one designed and suited to its own watershed or larger bioregion.
