Presentation given to the Lost Creek Civic Organization on May 5, 2016 by Ruth Glendinning and David Armistead.

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Building Community
Wealth
The Seven Principles of Rooting Community Wealth

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First we need to establish that we
need more capitalism, not less, but
it must be real.

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Emergence of Full Spectrum Capital
• Gold = Transformative Capital Forms
• Blue = Social Capital Forms
• Green = Material Capital Forms
• History flowed in three phases
1. Hunting/gathering economy
2. Agro-Industrial economy
3. Knowledge economy
• Each phase increased
1. system complexity
2. knowledge content
3. rate of change
• Capital returns increase in each phase
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2
3
4
Community Wisdom
EmpathyFinance
Energy
Natural
Systems
(ultimate source of all
capital)
Social
(conditioned
networks of
relationships)
Time
Materials
(dematerializing)
Knowledge
Human
(skilled people)
Labor
(automating)

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Full Spectrum Capital

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How Community Builds Wealth
Shifting from Spending-to-Survive to Investing-to-Thrive

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Rooting Community Wealth
• The requirements to realize the community
purpose in an ongoing (sustainable) fashion are:
• Community Social Contract
• Integral Community
• Full Spectrum Capital
• Community Wealth
• Local Recirculation (i.e. Metabolic or Circular Economy)
• Local Co-Reliance
• Eco Balance

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The Prime Directives for Building Local
Wealth
• Create and hold a firm shared commitment to
create thriving together.
• Produce and use all the necessities of life locally:
food, water, energy, etc.
• Continually recycle all local capital to hold it in a
working status at all times.
• Continually ‘learn forward’ and shrink your local
eco-footprint to zero.
• Act to continually grow and add complexity the
local commerce of self-reliance.

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Spending to Survive – Life’s necessities are
produced far away
• Limits the local capital used for necessities to
finance capital only
• Exports all local capital used for living at the time of
use
• Exports the capacity for self-reliant living as gains
elsewhere
• Oversimplifies the local commerce, lowering
sustainability
• Induces opaque and competitive actions in the
community

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Investing to Thrive – Life’s necessities are
produced locally
• Expands the local capital used for necessities to all
capital forms
• Recirculates the local capital used for living, at the time
of use
• Recirculates the capacity for self-reliant living as gains
locally
• Accumulates locally the margins on self-reliant living
• Adds complexity to the local commerce
• Induces transparent and collaborative actions in the
community

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David Armistead, Principal
david@thrivingcommunity.solutions
512-589-3998
Ruth Glendinning, Principal
ruth@thrivingcommunity.solutions
580-775-6798