Introducing The SparkTony Cartalucci It featured a combination of projects from urban farming to technological havens called makerspaces or hackerspaces working in tandem to turn a city block into a sustainable, self-sufficient economic unit driven by open source collaboration, technology, and local entrepreneurship. The Spark (trailer below) is a documentary covering real world examples of people doing just this. The documentary featuresthe previously coveredOpen Source Ecology and their Global Village Construction Set, as well as urban gardeners attempting to change mindsets as well as their current food paradigm. This illustrates that the visions of those involved in The Spark, as well as the solutions in Decentralizing Big-Retail are not communes where people convince themselves to be happy with less, but the daring dash forward into a future where politics and protests are replaced by technological pragmatism and progress. It will not happen overnight, and as those who view The Spark will see, it will not be easy. But it will work which is more than anyone can say about the political hamster wheel humanity has been running on century after long century. Tony Cartaluccis articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here. 