SECURITIES
& ECOLOGIES COMMISSION
(SEC)
PHILADELPHIA ECODEVELOPMENT INDICATORS These 160 INDICATORS of local economic health provide a specific measure for the increase or decline of our sustainable local economy. Valuations are weighted relative to one another according to longrange community wide impact. They are constantly adjusted by the Securities and Ecologies Commission (SEC) to create a more full and balanced portrait of Philadelphia’s economy. The SEC database plugs in the numbers, calculates values, subtotals and total (base 100). Raw data are obtained by regular arrangement with relevant agencies or through FOIA. Some are fixed infrastructure calculations; others change monthly, quarterly, semiannually, annually or decenially. Best estimates, with explicit guidelines, may be sufficient. SEC issues a biennial Seventh Generation report, projecting the impact of trends upon Philadelphians 200 years hence. SEC submits suggested indicator revisions for public discussion. The five members of the SEC are elected to three year terms. Values may be updated by local university classes and other volunteers.
Details at paulglover.org/sec.html
Local Currency A city that depends strictly on dollars will not have enough money with which to employ everyone, pay fairly, expand health clinics and trollies, revive schools, repair water mains, support neighborhood businesses, and clean our environment. As money is drained from America's schools, libraries, hospitals, municipal utilities, railways and pensions into self-destructive war, our taxes rise to pay for less. One way to challenge this misuse of national wealth and power is to print our own medical services money, backed by our willingness to trade it within southeast Pennsylvania. Philadelphia can create neighborhood currencies and sector currencies such as for SEPTA, free clinics and schools, meeting needs without relying entirely on scarce dollars. We can break the spiral of impoverishment by asserting community creativity.