http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/12/molly-scott-catos-talk-in-totnes-the-bioregional-economy/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Wed, 23 May 2012 04:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/12/molly-scott-catos-talk-in-totnes-the-bioregional-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-51067 eartheart Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:47:27 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/12/molly-scott-catos-talk-in-totnes-the-bioregional-economy/#comment-51067 <p>Molly's book looks at land owenrship issues. What is being done in Transiton projects to directly return land from the owning classes to the rentees. We have a absolutley elephant size problem in towns like Totnes of the poorest workers living in scrubby places while the wealthies who've made their scammy money of the backs of ethnically poor labourers by dodgy pension and sharewholder deals in the City have nabbed all the nice land and houses. Can we march and reclaim their land please - lets make all this a bit revolutionary rather than polite!</p> Molly’s book looks at land owenrship issues. What is being done in Transiton projects to directly return land from the owning classes to the rentees. We have a absolutley elephant size problem in towns like Totnes of the poorest workers living in scrubby places while the wealthies who’ve made their scammy money of the backs of ethnically poor labourers by dodgy pension and sharewholder deals in the City have nabbed all the nice land and houses. Can we march and reclaim their land please – lets make all this a bit revolutionary rather than polite!

]]> http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/12/molly-scott-catos-talk-in-totnes-the-bioregional-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-36273 Gareth_Doutch Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:40:57 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/03/12/molly-scott-catos-talk-in-totnes-the-bioregional-economy/#comment-36273 <p>It was a very good talk, just a shame she never had time to go into further detail at some points. But what I have read so far of her book seems spot on. Economics shouldn't be a bewildering topic, beneath the veil it is very simple indeed, so simple I would say any child could understand it.</p> It was a very good talk, just a shame she never had time to go into further detail at some points. But what I have read so far of her book seems spot on. Economics shouldn’t be a bewildering topic, beneath the veil it is very simple indeed, so simple I would say any child could understand it.

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