Hi, mi name is Alvaro
and live in Picasent near Valencia
I'm trying to be the most self sustainable as is possible
to avoid, producing and consuming from this system
Q1: can you say anything more about what you do, the projects etc?
do you translate or should i start?_yes, what is that you do in the movement, and the reasons you joined.
well i got in the zeitgeist movement because i think
It is the social movement that has the best plan to solve the planet's problems
and i'm involved in several projects in the zeitgest movement
developing some technologies of renewable energies
helping in what i can. with some colleagues with computer technology knowledge
free software
and some things related to agriculture, ecological agriculture
recycling organic residues.
I started as an activist 6 months ago
and i'm very happy and very hopeful about the work that's being done
why do you like the movement and the resource based economy?
the resource based economy seems to be the only feasible way
to survive in a planet with limited resources
i think its obviously clear that we can´t keep devastating the planet at the speed we are doing it
we must adapt ourselves to the production rhythms of nature
but that doesn’t mean that we have to give up confort,
technology today could allow us to live in a world were we could have abundace of all the things
without having to deprive ourselves of virtually anything
and almost without having to work
that’s what the technology based in resources is about
applying the technologies to live in consonance with the capacity of the planet
but apliying the technology to make our life easier
Q2: can you say something about the movement in Spain?
the history and the future of the movement in Spain
i'm not very old in the movemnt. i've only been for 6 months
so i am not one of the other, like him
so more important question is if you could say something more about the economic political and social situation in spain
or if you prefer to speak about the movement in spain, were can it go
how can it evolve, the local situation basicly
i see the movement in spain like in the rest of the world. The situation in spain its not better
than in the majority of the countries, they are starting to feel the symptoms of a sistem that is tumbling down
and its no longer sustainable. there are a lot of problems that come from the non-sustainability of this system
the tecnological unemployment is affecting a lot of people, there are 5 milions of unemployees
and the social situation is becoming more tense and some attempts of response are coming up,
but most of people are lost and they don’t have the answers to the questions they are making
we offer an answer an alternative to this system and our job is to reach as many people as we can,
and make them understand, that what we are suggesting is not only viable
but that it would also be very good for everybody
how do you see the transition from what we have now to a resource based economy, to the better world?
my favorite question
the transition is one of the most controversial questions inside the movement, how would it go,
from the actual system to the resourced based economy.
Many people can not picture it clearly.
i imagine how that transition can be made
and i think that it would be a gradual process of adopting different technologies
that can make possible for people to have access to resources in a free way
i mean developing and distributing technologies in open source
for people to be able to provide for themselves with the neccessary resources to live.
in several cases provinding ourselves without having to work, or working very little compared to what we do today
to gain money to buy things to live in comfort. we have a lot of technology that we are not applying
and majority of the people don´t know about it
if we apply the technology that we already have, we could live without problems
all the world almost without having to work.
i see this process of transition, like a way to slowly implement those technologies.
at first in a personal way. giving the example of its use and that they are applicable
and as the quantity of activists and interested people about zeitgeist growth,
the aplication and implementation of those technologies will increase.
and it would be a process of feedback the more people that work out of the system
thanks to the implementation of those technologies that allow people to access for free to the resources
more people would be seeing the efects of it and that it really works
and therefore more people will feel attracted to work outside the monetary system
and to join the resouce based economy.
and gradually the system will be empyting of its labor force and consummers
to finaly disapear on a pacific and gradual way
there is not much light now
this camera are pretty good with this, we can still make it.
Q. message to the people of the world. what do you want to tell to the people.
some advice maybe, what should they do to change their lives or something.
you know maybe it could be something about we should grow...
it can be one sentence, something that you think its important, it could be your favorite quot.
it could be something that you recently discoverd in your life and whant to share it.something close to your heart that you want to share with others
if you whant build another world...in spanish or english? sorry
if we want to build another world we must do it ourselves
- you can do it with dog. yeah you can take the dog in your hand, and the second one too -
the perfect motion._ you must see i built a fantastic machine.
all right.
if we whant to buil a world like...no no...its not that, cut.
ok i know i'll start over.
to buil the world we want we will have to do it ourselves, and we will have to learn how to do it
we must learn to build things