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Sepp Hasslberger: The Alternative – Rainbow Crystal Land – A Free Sustainable World for Everyone

Access, Design, Economics/True Cost, Governance, Innovation, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience, Transparency
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Imagining how the world could be … a project for living in harmony with nature and ourselves.

The Alternative – Rainbow Crystal Land

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We are searching for an alternative way of doing things, free from the violence, corruption, fear, oppression, injustice, poverty, consumerism, the abuse of power and the destruction of nature of “the mainstream”. Weare seeking an alternative system of true freedom, dignity and equality and a life in peace with ourselves, in peace with each other and in peace with Mother Earth. We are creating an alternative way for our big family of human beings to organise ourselves, to live in oneness with nature and to fulfil the basic needs of everyone.

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Michel Bauwens: P2P Commons Next Steps

Design, Economics/True Cost, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Proposed Next Steps for the emerging P2P and Commons networks

I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three institutional coalitions:
* The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons
* The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »
* The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons

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Tom Atlee: DemocracyOS and Public Wisdom

Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Governance, Transparency
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

Dear Ana Lis,

It was great to meet you, to talk for hours with enthusiasm and humor, and to establish a connection with Argentina's DemocracyOS movement.  (For the info of those on the To and Cc list above who are not familiar with DemocracyOS  it is a grassroots open source system in Argentina for online proposals, discussion, and voting on legislation.  It is connected to a separate political party – the Net Party  – which runs candidates committed to voting on legislation according to what citizens decide on DemocracyOS.  Both DemocracyOS and the Net Party have some parallels elsewhere in the world and are themselves spreading their memes to other places.)

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Michel Bauwens: Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons

Crowd-Sourcing, Design, Governance
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Interviewed: Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons

A commons-based economy cannot thrive without appropriate institutions, especially those that represent a “partner state” approach. Professor Christian Iaione of LUISS University in Rome is a pioneer of such institutional innovation in Italian cities. I believe his work with the city of Bologna on Bologna's Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons is a breakthrough. This regulation allows citizen coalitions to propose improvements to their neighborhoods, and the city to contract with citizens for key assistance. In other words, the municipality functions as an enabler giving citizens individual and collective autonomy. More than 30 projects have already been approved in this context and dozens of Italian cities are adopting this regulation. Read more.