By Brian Milani, for Kosmos Online

“Today a nascent Abundance movement is growing in many quarters—within, e.g., movements for permaculture, local living economies, green energy, natural building, open-source electronic networks, industrial ecology, the feminist Gift Economy, and much more. While focused on quality, it is also based upon a new level of guaranteed material subsistence for all—whether that be through a Basic Income, alternative currencies, or infrastructures of free food, housing, education and healthcare. We live in the potentially wealthiest societies humanity has ever known—able to now support every human being to a level of healthy subsistence. This material security—essentially a right to live that rates as a crucial stage in human social evolution—is not only an important tool to eliminate poverty and extreme inequality, but it must be a platform for truly regenerative economic activity.”