Category: Abundance
Abundance Fantasies: Exaggeration Cards
August 30, 2013Exaggeration cards are picture postcards depicting enormously oversized fruits, vegetables and livestock. First appearing in Fresno in 1905 the cards quickly struck a chord throughout the western United States. These “tall-tale postcards” became especially prevalent in small town rural communities hoping to forge an identity…
Abundance Fantasies: Baby Burrito
July 15, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Al-Kawthar
June 23, 2013Post-Growth / Post-Scarcity
June 18, 2013Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources. Several cornucopians have explored the notion of the post-scarcity economy, with unlimited free goods, services and information. The most appealing aspect of most of these post-scarcity…