By Karen Russell

Headlines around the world are heralding 'economic collapse'. Do your own research!

This 'New Wealth' report is based on the assumption that you are already aware of rapid economic changes, and are open to new ways of thinking.

Consider: What is wealth to you? Are you sacrificing the most important things in life to pursue the mighty dollar?

Now that money is losing its potency, what do you plan to do?

The objective of this report is to point you in the direction of 'New Wealth'.
Now take a few moments to read the following parable...

Two posters for awarness raising. Use freely.PDF files for printing at any size.

Transition Town Whanganui is having a double event on Dec. 7th.

A World Cafe in the morning 10am-12.30pm topics around re-localisation and local resiliance ('closer to home').

We will serve lunch from locally sources produce (partly organic). 12.30pm-1.30pm

1.30pm-3.30pm  we have Collin Walker form the Wairarapa Growing Company, a CSA scheme in the Wairarapa (makes sence).

Job Opportunity with Transition Network

It inspiring to see how the efforts of a few people can lead to powerful changes.  I have always liked superheroes – those incredible caped crusaders with a mission to Save The World.  Of course, their superpowers make it easier, even if they have to fight super villains.

Here is the video of Michael Pollan being interviewed on Web 2.0 Summit. When you have watched this to the end, and been inspired by the possibilities, take a look at www.ooooby.com and specifically the Ooooby Store

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If you don't have fast broadband, you can get some of the information from the following letter to the President (Which obama read and quoted from just prior to the election). The letter doesnt however talk about the exciting changes at the social level, which is where the opportunities are for people involved in initiatives like Transition Towns.Michael Pollan, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Source: Eco Literacy

The following items came from a weekly list of technology news by www.kurzweilai.net

It makes for interesting reading, seeing where different minds are focused and what they are developing and exploring...

A more efficient generator could convert more of the wind's energy into electricity.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21666/?a=f

Here is an audio file of an interview that Deirdre Kent did in Northland recently. It covers a range of topics from how money is created and the present fractional reserve banking system and helps explain why the present system is now falling down around our ears.

And here is the blog post from John Haines who did the interview, which includes an enlightening video describing the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank.

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

Thomas Jefferson 1802

Deirdre Kent is a founding member of Living Economies http://www.le.org.nz,  a lifelong social and environmental activist, former city councilor and grandmother. She lives with her husband on an organic fruit and nut small holding in Otaki managed by permaculture principles. She's been my most recent guest on Voices from the North.

With the rollercoaster ride of emotions that accompanied the elections in both the USA and NZ now over, it’s time to get back to day to day life and focus on the next big important event: Christmas.