I embarked upon this journey because I could no longer tolerate the yawning gap between what I knew and how I was living. I needed to know – not just theoretically, but with my whole being – that another world is possible. For this, I needed the visceral experience of working together with people as one body, living in places where I never flushed a toilet and never turned on a heater against the winter cold, and spending alternative currencies that foster resilience.
