A general overview about degrowth in the multidimensional crisis, and the Social Reaction in the neighbour of Pumarejo (Sevilla) in the last 15 years. Also how the Social Currency PUMA is working in this context.

1. THINK SPACE 2013
Alternativ konomiø
som f llesskabæ
20. september
Byens Rum

2. Source: www.impossiblehamster.org

3. “Anyone who believes exponential growth
can go on forever in a finite world is either
a madman or an economist.“
Kenneth Boulding

4. Just a financial crisis?

5. What is happening?

6. Multidimensional Crisis

7. Economic Crisis

8. Economic Crisis
The Concentric Circles
FINANCES
ECONOMY
SOCIETY
BIOSFERE
BIOSFERE
SOCIETY
ECONOMY
FINANCES
De-commercializing the liveDe-commercializing the live

9. Ecological Crisis

10. Ecological Footprint
Denmark
Souce: www.footprintnetwork.org

11. Ecological Footprint
Spain
Souce: www.footprintnetwork.org

12. Ecological Footprint
- Overhead
- Impossibility of spread the
Occidental Way of Life
- Unsustainability
- Degrow

13. Energetic Crisis

14. Climate Crisis

15. Social Crisis

16. The growth's unhappiness

17. De-what?

18. What is degrowth?
- Trend of thought
- social movement
- Decrease of consuption
- Controlled and rational production
- Cultural revolution
- Together we can live better with less

19. Degrowth basis
- Voluntary sobriety and simplicity
- Creative leisure time
- Reproductive work vs. productive work
- Reduction of working hours
- Triumph of the social life
- Reduction of structures
- Primacy of the local
- Resources distribution

20. Some Questions
- Is it possible to continue growing
globally?
- Is it possible the sustainable growth?
- Why is better voluntarily degrowth?

21. The praxis

22. The praxis

23. The praxis

24. The praxis

25. The praxis

26. The praxis

27. The praxis

28. The praxis

29. The praxis

30. The praxis

31. The praxis
Las Corralas

32. The praxis

33. The praxis

34. The praxis

35. INITIATIVES
Permaculture

36. INITIATIVES
Food Sovereignty

37. INITIATIVES
Social Currency

38. Further Information
- Crash course
www.peakprosperty.com/crashcourse
- Ecological footprint
www.footprintnetwork.org
- The oil drum
www.theoildrum.com
- Degrowth
www.degrowth.eu
www.decrecimiento.info

39. THINK SPACE 2013
community-based
alternative economy
The experience from “Casa Palacio del
Pumarejo (Sevilla)”

40. Community?
“What is and what should never be...”
Led zeppelin

41. What is Pumarejo?
Filmed and edited by Emek Filogullari http://vimeo.com/68080105

42. What defines Pumarejo?
Struggle & organization
Protest graffiti on the roof
For Google Maps!!!
Speculation
Gentrification
Unique thinking
boicot from city council

43. What defines Pumarejo?
Openness & Self-organization Neighbours
Local trades
Asociations
Citizenship
Working on the restoration of
the social centre
Neighbour waterproofing the roof
of the House

44. What defines Pumarejo?
Celebration & sense
Of Humor
Acomplished goals
Live in the square
Party
Irony
Protest meeting at the main door
of the Town Hall

45. Values of Pumarejo?
Community Vs Individual
Collective Decisions
Colaboration
Mutual Support
Assembly in the courtyard of the
House

46. Values of Pumarejo?
Trust vs control
People
Processes
Diversity
Main Hall of the community
Centre

47. Values of Pumarejo?
Abundance Vs Scarcity Resources
Abilities
Knowledge
Vs
Money
Pumarejo Paradise
Workshops about the House
and its future 2008.

48. Values of Pumarejo?
Strength & determination
Workshop about Collective Self­building.
First step for the restoration of Pumarejo
House by the citizens. Oct 2012.

49. Protest & Disobedience
What we have achieved:
Social and community centre
Cataloguing as BIC. 2003
Use agreement. 2011
Beginning House Restoration
(“Lo hacemos nosotras” LHN - Project)
...
And there's still some left
Opening the Community Centre.
15 sept 2003
10 years ago.

50. Protest & Disobedience
"Is a democracy, such as we know
it, the last improvement possible
in government? Is it not possible
to take a step further towards
recognizing and organizing the
rights of man?”
Henry David Thoreau

51. 14 years building Social Fabric
& community
May's Cross Celebration
Resilience

52. “Affection
Is
Revolutionary”
Unexpected Graffiti on the front of the
Pumarejo's House

53. Alternative
economy?
in this context...
“Rocking in a free world”
Neil Young

54. We need other models!!
NEOLIBERAL ??
more market!!
Keynesian ??
+ Public invest!!
+ Citizenship!
Participation
Decision
Action
Direct
Democracy !!

55. Creating Self-Sufficient Spaces
Basaed on: Ecology & Environment
Degrowth
Open models
Colaboration
Cooperation
Development
&
Economy
Human Scale

56. "No matter how hostile the environment in which we are
working is, we must never cease to insist that
development is about people and not about objects.
That the aim of development must be neither
producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of
fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of
humanity, but needs of being as well. ”
Manfred Max­Neef
Human Scale Development

57. And what about
The money?
“Take the money and run”
Woody Allen

58. What is money?
"It is well enough that people of
the nation do not understand our
banking and monetary system, for if
they did, I believe there would be
a revolution before tomorrow
morning.”
Henry Ford

59. What is money?
Positive money http://www.positivemoney.org/2013/05/what­is­money­new­video/

60. So why not
Create our
Own money?
“Free Money”
Patti Smith

61. Social Currency PUMA
What it is?: Local currency in Pumarejo
Complementary to €
Phisical Passbook
CES Digital Platform
1 puma = 1 €
LETS System
Zero sum Game
“the base is the
Trust network”

62. Social Currency PUMA
How to exchange? Passbook ready
Seller on +
Buyer on -
Sign the other passbook
New Balnce
Pass to CES
Transaction is based on mutual
trust. There's no control but
ourselves.

63. Filling in the Passbook

64. Social Currency PUMA
Objectives Strengthen the community
Relocate the economy
Strengthen abilities and knowledge
Satisfy basic needs
Money as a tool
Meeting points of Pumas are continous.
Mercapuma y Supply Center

65. Social Currency PUMA
How it works?
Board of offers & demands in the community
centre of the Pumarejo House
Inscription & training
Registration at CES
Initial Balance = 0
Max -100 P
Personal Account
Offers & demands
Start transactions
Integration on groups
STOP use €

66. CES: your personal account

67. CES: Offers and demands
Offer list on CES... You can search for
time period, categories, user, last
included, etc...
Offer categories in
Puma Currency

68. Working Groups
Communication
incorporation
Administration
MercapumaSupply Center
Care project
Health Project
Studies & Projects
Accounts & management
Web
Social Networks
Events
Participation
Inernal Communication
People
Producers & local business
groups
Monthly Market on Square
Meet consumers & producers
Main Funding Source
Food & Hygiene 100% PUMA
Prod. Organic, local, handmade
Self-production
Compensation / refund
Arbitration
Pumafunding
Work bureau
Prime Attention
Proffesional Advising
Alternative Therapy
University
Asociation
Community Centres, etc.

69. How is funded?
Mercapuma – Paper note! (only for 1 day)
Donations
Change to Pumas€
Conferences, Talks, Workshops, Projects, etc...
Supply
20%50% 20% 10%
Restoration Care Manage.

70. Process followed
Oct 2011
Jan. 2012
March 2012
Jan 2013
May 2013
Today...
Talk about Social Currency in Pumarejo (RDS)
First Steps of PUMA: Type of Currency, Objectives,
First Groups...
20 people aprox.
Pilot project. Transactions p2p, Improvements & redefining
First Swap Market on Square
1st Mercapuma... The party has just began!...
Join up new people, Producers, local Business and others
Consolidation of groups, new ideas & projects
Difusion between local business and producers
Extension of network and feeling on community
Programming talks, Conferences, Radio, Events, workshops....
Redefinition of Supply Center And Care Project!
Start working Sypply at 100% en PUMA
II National Meeting of local Currencies
Success!!
Promote & replicate new local currencies
Consolidate Projects (Care, Health,
Food Sovereignty, training, etc.)
Self-funding Projects in /Puma€

71. Some data
Users: 700
actives: 300
Sellers: 50%
Buyers: 93%
Prosumers: 43%
March 2012 – sept 2013March 2012 – sept 2013
Total Income in €Total Income in €
2012 (March – dic): 7.650 / 57.400 Kr€
2013 (Jan. – june): 7.024 / 52.600 Kr€
Total Expected End 2013: 21.600 / 162.000 Kr€ Self-funding !!!Self-funding !!!

72. Some data
Value generated in PumasValue generated in Pumas
2012: 3.000 Pumas / 22.500 Kr
2013 (1/2): 15.700 Pumas / 117.750 Kr€
Total Expected end 2013
33.000 P / 247.500 Kr
eco-Wealth !!!eco-Wealth !!!

73. SO??
Why not
Create your
Own money??
“Young Frankenstein”
Mel Brooks

74. Other local currencies
LETS System (Mutual Credit). And there are much more types!!

75. Starting!!!
Objectives?
Target Group?
Needs?
Type of currency?
Promoters Group
&
Participation!!
Inclussion!!
Participation Process with no
Exclusion or Digital divide

76. You can count on the PUMA
Herd!!!

77. "Whoever thinks that is too
little to change things, is
because he has never slept with a
mosquito in the room”
Gui

78. Refferences & info
Pumarejo website: http://www.pumarejo.es
Restoration Project “LHN”: http://www.lohacemosnosotras.org/
Documentary EMEK: http://vimeo.com/user1434688
Pumarejo Youtibe Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Pumarejolandia
About Pumarejo's House
Positive money: http://www.positivemoney.org/
NEF (New Economics Foundation): http://www.neweconomics.org/
Manfred Max-Neef website: http://www.max-neef.cl/
About monetary System and Multidimensional Crisis
Blog Social Currency Puma: http://monedasocialpuma.wordpress.com/
Community exchange sistem (CES): https://www.community-exchange.org
Complementary currency: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/
Scoop “Self-dependance & Social Currency”:
http://www.scoop.it/t/autodependencia-y-moneda-social
Blog julio gisbert “live without emplyment”: http://www.vivirsinempleo.org/
About local currencies

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