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The Moneyless Manifesto By Mark Boyle

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Other works by this author

This book was written by Mark Boyle, who has written a number of other interesting books and articles:

Books

The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (2010) (BUY)

The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (2010) (BORROW)

The Moneyless Manifesto (2012) (BUY) (this book)

The Moneyless Manifesto (2012) (BORROW)

Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (2015) (BUY)

Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (2015) (BORROW)

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology (2019) (BUY)

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology (2019) (BORROW)

Articles

The Guardian 2009-10-28 I live without cash – and I manage just fine

The Guardian 2009-11-02 The cashless man responds to your comments

The Guardian 2009-11-08 My year of living without money

2010-06-02 Moneyless man reveals how to live a cashless life without starving

The Guardian 2010-06-15 Travel without money poses challenges that make holidays more fun

The Guardian 2010-10-29 Moneyless man: To gather possessions, don't we need cash? Not so

The Guardan 2010-07-12 Soapdodgers of the world, unite

The Guardian 2010-07-27 Green, fun and free: How to dance and make merry without spending a penny

The Guardian 2010-08-10 How to build sustainable homes without spending a penny

2012-10-01 50 months: 'We need to set our own personal carbon targets'

The Guardian 2015-09-15 Living without money: what I learned

The Guardian 2016-12-19 Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it

The Guardian 201-02-06 No bills, so many riches: the lessons of living like a prince outside cyberia

The Guardian 2017-03-25 Bored? No way. Ditching technology makes life complicated and beautiful

The Guardian 2017-05-22 Environmentalism used to be about defending the wild – not any more

The Guardian Life without social media has taught me the virtues of being social

The Guardian 2017-09-21 I live a healthier life now I’m free of the trappings of modernity

The Guardian 2017-11-27 What do I miss about technology most? Match of the Day and my parents’ voices

The Guardian 2018-03-19 My advice after a year without tech: rewild yourself

The Guardian 2019-03-30 After two years off-grid, I'm embracing daily letters, good sleep and my DIY hot tub

Table Of Contents

I.

Acknowledgements and Contributors

II.

Foreword by Charles Eisenstein

Introduction.

Introduction

A reluctant author

All art is propaganda

Chapter 1. The Money Delusion.

The Money Delusion

Moneyless philosophy and the delusion of self

The Monetary Culture

Time isn’t money

Real community requires interdependency

Our disconnection from what we consume

The personal, social, ecological and economic consequences of money

The Division of Labour (DOL) married to money

Money causes waste

Gross inequality through the storing of value

Prostitution is to sex what buying and selling is to giving and receiving

Time to choose a new story?

Chapter 2. The Moneyless Menu.

The Moneyless Menu

The gift economy

The 100% local economy

Resource-based economy and “pay-it-forward”

Chapter 3. The POP model.

The POP model

Moneyless women and men

Chapter 4. Challenges and transitional strategies.

Challenges and transitional strategies

Current human culture

Addiction to industrialisation

Land ownership

Planning permission for low / zero impact living

Council tax – the tax on being alive

Insurance

Being a parent

Chapter 5. Labour and Materials.

Labour and Materials

Labour

Materials

Chapter 6. Land.

Land

Land of the free

Create an inspiring vision and pursue it passionately

Campaigning for realistic land reform

Chapter 7. Home.

Home

Free house

Cheap (or potentially free) to build, free to run houses

Compost toilets

Chapter 8. Food and Water.

Food and Water

Wild food foraging

Growing

Skipping

Other ideas

Water

Chapter 9. Washing

Washing

Bodies

Teeth and mouth

Hair

Clothes

Home

Chapter 10. Transport and Holiday accommodation.

Transport and Holiday accommodation

Transport

Accommodation when you get there

Chapter 11. Living Off-grid.

Living Off-grid

Electrical Energy

Cooking

Heating

Open source ecology

Information security

Chapter 12. Education.

Education

Home education

Freeskilling

Other projects and ideas

Chapter 13. Health and Sex.

Health and Sex

A personal anecdote

Localised healthcare options

Women’s health

Wild sex

Chapter 14. Clothing and Bedding.

Clothing and Bedding

Clothing

Bedding

Chapter 15. Leisure.

Leisure

Learn to play (and make) an instrument

Painting, parties and booze

Other fun stufff

Chapter 16. The Beginning is Nigh.

The Beginning is Nigh

Notes.

Notes