Dear Durham Black Farmers Market, Freedom House Recovery, Union of Southern Service Workers, and all readers of the blog.

A compassionate economy means questioning how the economy operates:

Some questions are why are there not more minorities selling at the farmers market? Why do all the fast food restaurant’s sell the same thing like hamburgers and french fries cooked in grease? Why do people who get out of rehab go back to the same drug infested housing? What can we do about the state mental hospitals? Why are there no healthy fresh locally grown salads at fast food?

Right now we have no power to make the changes that we need. How do we find ourselves when we are lost? It starts with compassionate thinking, like community gardens, meditation and stopping deforestation.

We are tired when friends and family members get released from rehab and have no where to turn. We can try to help these people meet new friends at our community gardens. Gardens for Earth can help people make compassionate decisions, by helping people with mental health issues to practice meditation. Gardens for Earth helps us to be compassionate to the earth, by stopping palm oil deforestation and replacing the with sustainable businesses growing, healthy and growing locally.

A compassionate economy emphasizes well being, care, equity and sustainability. Well being means taking care of everyone’s health and education for all the people on the planet. Instead of economic growth we need funding an economy that actually cares for the people. Equality addresses historical injustices and finds ways to solve them. Equity fights for equality for all peoples. Finally, sustainability is all about having compassion for the environment. Practicing these these will help us to carry a social consciousness for all beings living on this planet earth.

Dear non profits?

I hope that by bringing these questions up in this blog we could create some actual solutions that Garden-Rangers could solve. What are some ideas and strategies solutions that you can think of?