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Well, we’re a group of people that together are going to walk 2,000 miles representing the 2,000 calories a person needs in order to live for one day. Broken down into 20 mile intervals, the walking will equate to the amount of daily work like growing or gathering food required to provide 2,000 calories a day. The point we’re trying to make is that in our current system there is an unbalance between the amount of energy, human and non-human, used to provide us with our daily calorie allowance creating a net energy loss. This is a fancy way of saying, “You can’t take out what you’re not putting in.” While we walk, we’re going to stop in towns and give presentations about our project, invite others groups and individuals to walk with us for a day or a few hours to participate in the sustainable energy cycle we are demonstrating. Of course, part of our message is to encourage people to start thinking more locally in order create a smaller more efficient energy cycle so, in addition, we are going to be stopping to work on farms all along the way. If we compare how much work, or walking, we do in day to what the average American currently spends on food each day we can show how much a dollar of food is different than a dollar of energy which illustrates this net energy loss. We want to show people that 1) we can support ourselves with real work if this work produces forms of energy that we need 2) that money has no real value if it’s not accurately representing this energy exchange. One of the solutions or answers we want to offer people is that work and the forms of energy it produces are the only currencies that hold real value, and we want to show people that the value in doing physical work to provide for ourselves like growing your own food, building your own home, cutting your own firewood, etc. is a formula for a healthy happy life that we have somehow strayed away from in the last hundred years, but has been working quite effectively since the beginning of human kind. We don’t want to sound alarmist, negative or demanding; our message and method is peaceful and positive. It’s simply an outward expression of what we feel is clear to us inside. We are the people of this earth and hope you want to be, too. Home - back |
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