Rule 8

8. Strive to supply as much of the community’s own energy as possible.

Rule 9

9. Strive to increase earnings (in whatever form) within the community for as long as possible before they are paid out.

Rule 10

10. Make sure that money paid into the local economy circulates within the community and decrease expenditures outside the community.

Rule 11

11. Make the community able to invest in itself by maintaining its properties, keeping itself clean (without dirtying some other place), caring for its old people, and teaching its children.

Rule 12

12. See that the old and young take care of one another. The young must learn from the old, not necessarily, and not always in school. There must be no institutionalised childcare and no homes for the aged. The community knows and remembers itself by the association of old and young.

Rule 13

13. Account for costs now conventionally hidden or externalised. Whenever possible, these must be debited against monetary income.

Rule 14

14. Look into the possible uses of local currency, community-funded loan programs, systems of barter, and the like.