Shastashares

“Shastashares” is an alternative currency option being offered to the Mount Shasta region in the Spring of 2010. Shastashares combines the efficiency of regional production and exchange with the practical values inherent to natural wealth.

Organic agricultural methods applied to propagation and production of fruit, vegetables, herbs, flowers and heirloom seed stocks, provides an economic base founded in proven quantifiable natural values. With heirloom fruit yielding an exponentially increasing abundance of new seeds every year, each growing season can be expected to pay measurable dividends in natural abundance of beneficial resources essential to healing economics, society and the environment.

Of necessity, a critical shift in human values is happening. Increasingly scarce, unevenly distributed, toxic chemical commodities, erroneously valued as energy feed-stocks, have been recognized as posing a grave and immediate threat to life on Earth in the foreseeable future.
Accelerating environmental, economic and social imbalances indicate the likelihood of irreversible, synergistic collapse, increasing the urgency of basing human economics in activities that actively heal the Earth. “Gaiatherapeutic” industries are needed to repair damage done by several decades of imposed extinctionistic values.

Environmentally healing choices have always existed. Corporate manipulation of political objectivity has eliminated free market options so successfully that the organic agricultural market has not been allowed to work or be fully considered.

Organic agriculture has served as the basis of sustainable human economics for centuries. The basis of Shastashares value is conveyed by proportionate appreciation of true value in the life energy and abundance available in heirloom seeds.

Shastashares offers to transform values inherent to the chemically-based economy into resources that actively heal the planet and our society. Rather than perpetuating economics of political corruption, national insolvency and endless wars, our generation faces the challenge of redefining human values to prioritize quality of life.

Foundational to sustainable economics is our responsibility to respect the Earth. Lack of respect for the Natural Order has led humankind to the brink of synergistic collapse. It is our choice to shift values into harmony with the Natural Order or not.

I look forward to hearing your ideas for ways of improving Shastashares and welcome your participation in the evolution of value in Siskiyou County and beyond.

Sincerely yours,

Paul J. von Hartmann

www.shastashares.com
projectpeace@yahoo.com