People of Faith

It's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started. After all, we have all emerged together, and are still emerging people of TaoGod, right? Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species as among those not capable of autonomously regenerating ourselves into our divine health functions, or even our more pathological dysfunctions as a People of Multiculturing Faith. Even Saint Peter, who was probably no one's idea of a writer and actor and co-redeemer who identified himself as one of the common folk, and most certainly not in a position to be remembering TaoGod's grace somehow includes enslaved women, Even Elitist Patriarch Peter cooperatively committed to "Those formerly enslaved and raped and owned and rented at the will of their owners with approximate value of the food they eat, water they drink, air they breathe, kids they breed to become chronically repressed, not even recognized as a fully human Tribe, are now the cooperatively creolizing women and men, including all God's "Bless His Heart" liberties and proclivities and frivolities, and robust, resonant thriving cooperativities, bound only by our Golden Rule as the becoming people of regenerative/degenerative TaoGod. Well, OK, so I threw in a little extra stardust that St. Peter didn't explicitly say, but would it be fake news that these transliterations may be implied? And further economized, quite ecologically, and cooperatively WinWin Game Theoretic robust, as always pay Yes forward unless you have LeftBrain historical proof that this Other, also of TaoGod/dess Earth, defines cooperatively active love as more for autonomous Ego Identities, than for Cooperative RightBrain HolySpirit-EcoFlow Optimization, WinLeft/WinRight Cooperative (0)-sum Ecologically Reiterative-Dialectal Economics. Anyway, another way to begin this energetic cooperative story was when I decided not only could I not afford to not put a solar panel system on my house, but my neighbors and my town also could not afford for me to continue consuming from 88% nonrenewable fuel-produced electricity, when I could switch to producing 100% radiant solar-rooted electricity for my family, and a surplus to flow back to our town's cooperatively owned grid. Or, you know, something like that. So, if I could do this, only pay for about half of the system myself (so, about $10,000, while relying on the generosity of our combined tax revenues for the other nearly half) and also get a 0-interest loan, with a 10 year repayment calendar, and in return eliminate my electric bill and my water bill, because water and gas and sewer service, like electricity are owned by my town's cooperative utility corporation, then why wouldn't everyone, especially TaoGod's no longer enslaved and owned and rented people having chronic issues with affording to stay in regenerative homes, with potential capacity to produce solar-cycled electricity, and, if oversized, but not overpriced, also have a cooperatively intended interest in collecting less bills they cannot afford to pay. So, the originators of our town's People of Faith Cooperative began with those "Bless Their Heart" properties defining why our Utility Cooperative was budgeting over 2 million dollars in bad debt each year. And, as you might suspect, the large majority of this incapacity to produce cash came from a handful of repeat offenders. And, many of our People of Creolizing Faith Cooperative originators just happened to live in some of these under-performing properties, or had, or knew somebody who did. For every owner of these problem child properties who installed a solar, and then, later on, solar and wind-turbine system, the Coop received $200. $100 of which went back to the coop member who brought this deal to contract, to buy groceries or maybe a cell phone allowing internet access through their cooperative membership. So everybody's happy. The Utility Cooperative is decreasing bad debt trends and increasing clean energy percentages and increasing indigenous production percentages, so we can trend toward becoming a producer town, that is a NewEngland positive extra energy town more than a degenerative negative-loss consumer. We further suspect and actively hope, that as the towns around us follow suit, not just trump, then this cooperative of clean energy producers will help NewEngland become a net clean energy producer, and so on. Sort of like thinking global systemically, but also local economically, including personally, and then acting cooperatively from ego-center within toward eco-centering without, from YinRight toward YangLeft nondually co-arising our People of MultiCulturing Cooperative. Also a winner on this growing list, People of Faith now also harvest humanure, modeled on soil therapy programs already well-established in Japan, which allows us to plant and care for a growing urban forest of fruit and nut and fig trees, and berry bushes (no thorns, kid and family friendly) and various beds of rhubarb and asparagus and perennial onions, and so on, including strawberry fields forever, which these same People of Faith forage and graze on as they wander around downtown, now partially closed to auto traffic, facilitated by the cooperative bike-share project, which was funded through profits from the Cooperative's recycling solar panel industry and solar-wind hybrid installation services. And, the town government gets 10% of net from the Utility Cooperative, so that has gone up a bit, as bad debt goes down, and now we can afford to pay cooperative producers of electricity at almost our retail rate, so the People of Faith Cooperative has been saving some of this income to help cooperative members buy the solar-heated buildings they have been renting, as cooperative landlords and ladies age and decide to move elsewhere, although the list of reasons for relocation continue to fade away as we slow down to smell our well-composted forest we have cooperatively become.