Solari Action Network

[CEngelbart]

Overview of Solari Circles

A Solari Circle is a club of trusted friends with a particular focus on investing their time and money in building wealth in transformative ways. Wealth is viewed as a blend of financial and living equity, including the health and well being of our families, our communities and our planet. Financial investment emphasizes financial intimacy and "back to basics" investments -- green, self-sufficiency, venture, precious metals, offshore and local investment -- rather than promoting traditional corporate investment.

By collectively shifting our focus of spending, banking and investing toward sustainable, decentralized businesses and farming, we can transform our finances and the world. Our immediate goal is to create living and equity wealth that is sustainable for our families and fellow members in a way that contributes to healthy, sustainable communities worldwide.

For example, why let credit card companies finance our neighbors' debt at 18% when we are only earning 2% on our bank CDs? Why not get together and pool our capital and keep those interest profits in our community, while helping our neighbors work down their debt?

Other local investment opportunities include neighborhood business and venture investments, consumer and business aggregation, government resource reengineering and other similar activities. Network opportunities include what people we know and trust are doing or are investing in, including within their communities.

Solari Circles are self-organizing. They can be local or work by phone and the internet in multiple places. Clubs can organize informally to begin "Coming Clean" together, and gaining mastery of how the money works around us. Investment pools started by a Solari Investor Circle are organized as legal entities, probably a general partnership, with a bank account, tax ID number, books of account, articles of incorporation, and certain legal reporting requirements.

Catherine often says "Don't ask if there is a conspiracy. If you are not in one, you need to start one." Solari Circles are an important step to creating the conspiracies we need to build the world we would leave to our children.



See also:

• Invitation: Solari Investor Circle Invention Room
• Documentation: Solari Investor Circle Starter Kit (Draft Outline)
• Documentation: Coming Clean!
• Solari Audio Seminars: Special Introductory Collection and The Investors Collection
• One-Pager: A Note on the Importance of Building Wealth
• One-Pager: Everyone is an Investor












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[duprevent]

Hi,

I am seeking people involved in or interested in Solari Circles in Tasmania, Australia. Anyone here by any chance??

You may respond directly to me at duprevent@bigpond.com

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Deborah

[earthangel13]

At your suggetion, I have changed banks, establishing accounts with a small local bank.

I am now ready to furhter my steps towards advancement! How does one start, or get involved with a "local" Solari investment circle?

Michael N. Kashouty (mikekashouty@yahoo.com)

[Elias_Alias]

[Randal]

Is the outline that is linked to reflective of the complete development of the "Starter Kit?"

Is help needed to further this project?
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Randal Son
Kooskooskie, WA.

[Randal]

If this interests you, my contact info at the bottom. R

Many Waters Community Development
“Raising the water level in Walla Walla’s economic pond”

“Many Waters Community Development” (MWCD) Fed ID# 86-1098505 A 501-c-3 non-profit organization.

Mission: To encourage a more self-sufficient, sustainable, and robust community in the Walla Walla Valley through

• creating a network of local investors, small businesses, and customers;
• developing and investing in business opportunities in under-served and emerging markets including finance, communications, sustainable energy, and other clean enterprises; and
• developing locally based markets and brands that provide a level of value, service, and product competitive with or unavailable from outside-owned or multi-national corporations.
Qualified as a Community Development Entity by Federal rules, and Engages In:
• Research, grant writing, and organizational process advisory services
• Public education
• Constituency, market, and brand development
• Facilitation of citizen participation in setting community sustainability goals

Requires Minimum of 3 Board Members to start – target 5 in one year and 7 maximum.
Funded through contracts for service, profits from its subsidiary, and grants.

Maintains a controlling interest in:

“Many Waters Equity, Inc.” (MWE) Fed ID # 86-1098504 A for-profit business.

Which Invests In:

• Research or feasibility studies contracted for with MWCD, or with and by other entities
• Equipment for In House (dba “Many Waters Operations”) and appropriate outside enterprises
• Equity for Debt swaps
• Other monetizing transactions utilizing innovative financial tools, some with local partners
• Registered TradeMarks, ServiceMarks, and other intellectual property

Qualified as a Community Development Financial Institution by Federal rules.

Local control of pooled equity through voting and non-voting shares will be the primary financing method,
with the intention of paying financial, ecological, and social dividends to investors.
Utilizes a small, skilled Investment Advisory committee.

Community Self Reliance will be developed by evaluating investments for:

• Profitability
• Local ownership
• Ecological soundness; reducing waste streams and building natural capital
• Maximized energy efficiency and renewable energy use
• Strong input and output links with other local enterprises
• Replacement of imports to the local economy
• Labor fairness

Certain statements made by the company in this release may constitute forward-looking statements. In light of the risks and uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements, many of which are beyond our control, actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation that anticipated events will occur or that expected objectives will be achieved. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the following: our ability to successfully market a new product in the current economic environment; changes in the demand for, pricing of, or supply of our products; competitive considerations, including possible actions by competitors and an increase in competition for our products; general economic conditions, including changing interest rates, rates of inflation and the performance of the financial markets; and various other factors. We undertake no obligation to release publicly the results of any future revisions we may make to forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events

Contact: R. Randal Son – randal@bmi.net – 509 522 0072 – 509 301 7607
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Randal Son
Kooskooskie, WA.

[Catherine]

Randall:

Congrats on your progress!

Catherine

[Catherine]

Randall:

We have much in draft form and could sure use some help. In a week or two, I hope to have a package to put up and e-mail to a small group of people who have offered to help.

Let me know if you want to be on the list,

Catherine

[DanielOR]

We are now out of debt (except for a student loan). We just sold our house in Portland (We now live in Eugene, Oregon), and we are ready to take some of the equity and invest. I am fairly new to the Solari Network, and I've been enjoying the posts and the information.

We are part of a new group that is forming called "Permatopia" that is planning for the impending energy, financial and resource collapse. One important piece to this is a Solari Investment Circle. I would very much like to start an SIC and we already have a few people in our group that are near-ready to go. We would very much like to attract more people who are interested to the following:

Creating alternatives to the corporate economy
Creating community-based sources of energy
Creating community-based urban food production

Current discussions in our group center around Peak Oil and the impending collapse.

Please e-mail me at daniel@planetsong.net for more information and for your interest.

Thanks,
Daniel SB
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Daniel SB
Eugene, OR
"Creating Permatopia"