If we were about to learn how to live on earth, by using no money, it seems it would cause a lot of financial problems in the International Bank System… Or not? Mark Boyle surelly is the enemy of the Capital International System if we just think he uses no money anymore since the last 5 years. This column, OUR-nalism, is dedicated to people pioneers who would like to give us an example of doing something in the different direction. Why not?
Being a Greek, during the 5th continuus recessioning year in the Greek Financial Reality, wiriting for a person who lives in no money nore exchange, seems to be a new Bible for Civilization. Lets focus on his Moneyless Manifesto…
Broke so damn, not because the whole situation led him out of the financial circle, due to the economic crisis but in his own choice, Mark Boyle stopped using money sometime in 2008. Today, nearly 6 years later, the 35 year-old Briton remains not just cool but also delighted, believe it or not.
Boyle, a graduate of University of Economics and former manager in several businesses, now lives in a caravan near the city of Bristol. On an organic farm where he works as a volunteer three days a week, he cultivates the… food he finally consumes. Food in general is being prepared in a wood-fired oven and the electric current is guaranted with the help of a solar panel.
Depending on the invaluable assistance of solar energy, he charges his portable electronic computer though even uses a mobile phone but only for incomings. As for the other daily needs, teeth brushing — no way by a toothpaste — but with a mixture of cuttlefish bones and fennel. As for the clothes, cleaning is made by hand in a makeshift detergent made from… nuts! Are you ‘’nuts’’?
As he said in banoosh.com, ‘’If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior décor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t shit in it.
So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up money, which I decided to do for a year initially. So I made a list of the basics I’d need to survive. I adore food, so it was at the top. There are four legs to the food-for-free table: foraging wild food, growing your own, bartering and using waste grub, of which there far too much. ‘’
In a need of nutrition, he cultivates his own food as we said before, such as potatoes, beans, carrots and bulbs. Furthermore, he has a habit that we are not so keen in the civilized west Europe… He gathers from nature mushrooms and berries, and often gets from restaurants and supermarket foods abound remained from the tables around. This way of living is a doable thing for him, trying to spread his lifestyle to the others. He meets people who generally agree with him and explains to them, how they can succeed by following his example. And he still reminds them of the difference for what we ‘’say’’ time between the cities and his… adventure back in the nature. Time, as he says, flows so late in a world where there is no money. For this purpose, he wrote down a whole useful Moneyless Manifesto, as a Survey Green Bible for living behind the chaos of the paper and coined money… Why not?
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