Holigent.org (Holigent Transition to Peace and Sustainability.org)

Description

Holigent.org is a nonprofit organization developing and offering programs to help rearrange the way we live, work, commute and consume and to facilitate the development of a socioeconomic alternative that promotes economic security, social harmony and sustainability. On a conceptual level, we recognize that capitalist-consumerism in its present form has become an over-consuming and hyper-polluting unsustainable global economic monoculture and that humanity has no Plan B for pursuing a sustainable and peaceful alternative. We encourage the formation of nonprofit organizations and their partnering with governments and philanthropists in developing Transitional Urban Villages. Such not-for-profit developments propose a new urban approach to providing high-quality affordable living and other solutions for the multiple problems of cities large and small in the U.S. and around the world. In a more advanced proposal we offer the Holigent Solution, which provides a sustainable alternative for residents to further rearrange the way they live and work. Holigent communities develop a barter-based local system that works in parallel with and to a degree separate from the global economy. As a result, a hybrid socioeconomic alternative is developed that secures the essential quality of life, affordable housing, and social harmony at a reduced footprint on the environment even during severe downturns of the general global economy.