By decentrallizing industries to neighborhood control, products can be made with pride and skill.
Production schedules and product design could suit local resources. Recycling processes could be developed
for any byproducts.
By decentrallizing industries to neighborhood control, products can be made with pride and skill.
Production schedules and product design could suit local resources. Recycling processes could be developed
for any byproducts.
Returning industry to neighborhoods gradually reduces automobile commuting which has poisoned our air. And solarizing these industries cuts industrial air pollution. As air improves health improves, since 80% of our ingestion, by weight, is air.
Industry has been the noisiest and ugliest part of cities. By rescaling and soundproofing industries for neighborhood life, they can blend with urban beauty. Insofar as beauty contributes to social harmony, beauty is practical.
Los Angeles can learn to luxuriate in the necessities before the necessities become luxuries. In societies whose goods are crafted more is appreciated, less is consumed. This kind of priority gives us a short work day amid pastimes worthy of leisure: romping, playing, sunbathing, musicmaking, storytelling, meditation, inventing, dancing, exploring, exercising, learning.
As well, our most prosperous years are during wars, when weapons factories and armies employ us all to kill. We need an industrial base which thrives on peace rather than war. Relying on regional raw materials makes us independent of foreign supplies, ending the competition for these which has caused most war.
Interneighborhood enterprise, neighborhood enterprise, household and personal enterprise can be organized and run by workers, solar-powered for health and quiet, and can produce all the useful goods we need for a much better American Way.
Sun focused to one point by mirrors produces high temperatures. This heat can be used to melt or burn materials and to make steam
to power machines. Research is fast increasing their efficiency and decreasing their bulk and costs. Their potential in
Los Angeles is impressive.
Solar concentrator collectors (solar motors) are already being used to pump and desalinate water, operate textile mills, print newspapers, power radio stations, heat schools, manufacture tractors, process food and refine oil. They can increase neighborhood economic power, decrease reliance on fossil fuels, monopolies, and commuting. These machines would be assessd for costs and financing, space and load requirements, generating capacities and reliability installed in Los Angeles for neighborhood manufacture of canning jars, agricultural tools, guayule rubber, and so forth.
Soundproofing, zoning, tax incentives, regional raw materials, recycling, interneighborhood transfers and relation to neighborhood organizations are among other considerations.
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