What we are building
What we are building
In plain language: the three pillars, the four-phase arc, and the 10% line.
Seven Years of Change is a community economic self-determination platform. Three pillars organize the work. Energy and manufacturing run through all three.
Three pillars of infrastructure
Nutrition. A neighborhood kitchen and pantry that feeds participating households at cooperative prices. Model estimate: monthly grocery savings of roughly $180 to $310 per household, depending on participation level. This is a design figure, not a documented outcome.
Housing. Tied to community land trusts. Rent is not extraction. Refurbish, rebuild, reconstruct, rework, reimagine.
Transportation. Shared, neighbor-to-neighbor, dispatch-supported, and integrated with whatever transit exists. Nobody is punished for not owning a car.
Energy and manufacturing are not a fourth pillar. Green retrofits, solar, local repair, refurbishment, technical training, and small-scale manufacturing support and connect the three pillars. They are part of how communities build, maintain, and eventually own the systems serving them.
A water pillar, led in part by students, is in development. High-school and college teams would build from the founder’s Bureau of Reclamation experience in drought states, beginning with Southern California, Arizona, and other western communities.
2. The four-phase arc
A person can begin with one need, one existing ability or resource, and one safe, lawful action. Record what happened, keep what helps, correct what does not, and let the team form through repeated useful work.
3. The seven-person team
Six members plus a rotating lead. Women-led. The team is the basic unit. Teams meet weekly. Teams are organized into Pods around shared functions, and Pods coordinate at the neighborhood level.
Why seven? Because seven people can know each other's names, schedules, kids, and constraints. A movement of strangers cannot care for itself. A team of seven can.
4. The 10% line
Any interest rate above 10% is treated as extraction, not lending. The Community Usury Ledger documents where that extraction is happening: credit cards, payday lenders, subprime auto, rent-to-own, anything that crosses the line.
The Ledger documents claims, evidence, extraction, corrections, and unresolved questions. Seven Years of Change is not currently asking households to submit debts or promising household debt relief.
The platform is funded by a combination of foundation funding, reparations-targeted relief funding, and cooperative enterprise revenue. Larger gifts are welcomed from people in a position to give them, and they are documented like everything else.
The Ledger's first entry is the founder's own.
The Ledger documents claims, evidence, extraction, corrections, and unresolved questions. Seven Years of Change is not currently asking households to submit debts or promising household debt relief.
A note on numbers: dollar figures on this page are model estimates based on the platform's design, not documented results from operations that have not yet begun. Real-world figures elsewhere on this site are sourced where they appear.
The work has begun
January 1, 2026 I started the clock. July 1, 2026 my financial summary went public. December 31, 2026 we build.
What to do next
If this is for you, write to us. Tell us your region and what you would like to build.
What now?
If you need help right now — Start Here
If you want to build something where you live — The Work
If you are still deciding whether to believe any of this — Integrity Statement