New Work Technologies
In the last twenty years New Work has identified a multitude of extremely various technologies whose common element is that they all support the possibility of a Base Economy - i.e. the possibility of a very extensive (80%) economic self-reliance. What makes any technology a “New Work” technology is its ability to contribute to an independent, self-providing, and enhanced quality of life for a community. Examples include:
- Permaculture gardens and urban farming
- Waste water recycling equipment
- Fast, low-cost construction techniques
- Electrical generation technology
- Micro-factories for local production
- Compostable toilets
- New Work Cafe - Social media/communication and technological access redefining the workspace and work community.
Recent blog posts
"I have tried to evolve an organically integrated set of policy proposals that would have the power not only to stop the appalling deterioration of our country – her accelerating descent into a pit of cynicism, passivity, violence and despair – but that, instead, would define a step by step process leading us back to the path of our original mission: to becoming the greatest force on the globe in the struggle for a more humane, a more intelligent and a more life-giving culture."
- Frithjof Bergmann
