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Reciprocity as a Business Model
Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in reci
... See morefrom The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer by Emergence Magazine
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- The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles of reciprocity. Anthropological ideas mentioned in the article point towards this as being a way of sustaining life in various communities.
from The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer by Emergence Magazine
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- The Response Gratitude and reciprocity are the currency of a gift economy, and they have the remarkable property of multiplying with every exchange, their energy concentrating as they pass from hand to hand, a truly renewable resource.
from The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer by Emergence Magazine
Jay Matthews added