Post edited 6:26 pm – June 29, 2010 by wspademan

This is our draft vision statement. Comments welcome.

We begin with a vision of a better world:

• a world where everyone is guaranteed adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, and fulfilling work;
• a world where land, air, water, the beauty of nature and the wealth we have created are protected and used carefully for our common good;
• a world where community and cooperation are at the center of our lives, where we care about and take care of each and every one of us, delighting in our diversity;
• a world where decisions are made by everyone, for everyone's benefit;
• a world without pollution, weapons, injustice, poverty, disease, misery, obscene consumption, corrupt governments and unrestrained corporations;
• a world at peace.

At the center of this vision is a highly participatory, democratic, community-based economic system — a system in which:

• everywhere in the world, people gather in communities to discuss and set priorities for investment in local businesses and gifting to nonprofit organizations.
• each community is responsible and empowered to assure the well-being of its members, its neighbors, and the world.
• communities collaborate on large-scale cooperative projects, with other communities in their region.

Common Good Bank was designed to be the foundation for that system.