In the new story, we build local, living economies that allow us to sustainably meet our basic needs using the material and labor resources available in our bio-region. We get our food from community gardens, community supported agriculture and farmers’ markets. We build our homes using locally available materials. Local enterprises fashion our clothing, housewares, bicycles and medicinal herbs and we can barter or use local currency to pay for them. Nonlocal items like cars are shared. We generate our own clean energy. We crowdfund local businesses with zero-interest loans and keep our money in public banks that can finance clean energy and other infrastructure projects. The healing arts are predominantly preventative and natural, with recourse to high-tech modalities only as a last resort. We accept that we cannot live forever and choose death with dignity over endless end-of-life medical interventions.