ls it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After becoming disillusioned with consumer society, Mark Boyle decided to give it a try [1] I suppose the seeds of my decision to give up money were sown seven years ago, in my final sernester of a business degree in Ireland, when i stumbled upon a DVD about Gandhi. He said we should be the change we want to see in the world'. the trouble was hadn't the idea what change l wanted to be back then I spent the next five years managing organic food companies, but by 2007, realised that even 'ethical business' would never be quite enough 12) l believe the key reason for so many problerns in the world today is the fact that we no longer directly have to see the repercussions of our actions. The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that people are completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering involved in the production of the food and other stuff we buy. The tool that has enabled this disconnection is money. 13] If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste third of it we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we wouldn't waste it so freely. As long as money exists, these symptoms will surely persist. So l decided last November give it up, D and reconnect directly with the things I use and consume (4l got myself a caravan, parked it up on an organic farm where I was volunteering and kitted it out not to use normal electricity. Mobile and laptop would run on solar energy, I'd use wood I either cut or scavenged to heat my humble home; cooking would be on a rocket stove. You can't use the rocket stove indoors, so this meant that for the next 12 months, was going to have to cook outside.