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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