Russell Evans

Missing from the conversation are ideas that are both practical and radical.

We used to live in a world where money was the thing that enabled things to happen. But with dollars becoming more and more scarce, success will only come if we develop a myriad of alternative economies to empower our work.

Most of us would love to experiment with, develop, and launch new businesses that will transition our economy. But without the extra time, resources, and training necessary, it is hard to make such a radical leap. In a way, it is so easy to get stuck working in the traditional economy just to make ends meet. If ordinary people are going to break this cycle, we will need living laboratories where passionate individuals can come together to both train in skills of resilience and to develop business models that will be self-sustaining. These places will have to be affordable, integrated into the community, and offer the resources necessary for students to experiment, model, and replicate new ideas.