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Fwd: [bgcon] TACIT FUTURES > recap #2 BG Annual Conference 2016
by Michel Bauwens 03 Nov '16

03 Nov '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:52 PM Subject: [bgcon] TACIT FUTURES > recap #2 BG Annual Conference 2016 To: digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de Hi, working on the results of the conference, we realized that the time has come to say goodbye to the conference subtitle: "Towards a democratic control of movement" – a word play, that probably works a little better in German than in English, basically fusing "Bewegungskontrolle" and "demokratische Kontrolle". "Bewegungskontrolle" (movement control) evokes a dystopian narrative, I guess we don't have to explain that. But it can also be used in quiet a neutral way in order to describe a world composed of increasingly automated and self-driving systems, in which all the traffic by humans, goods, bits and capital depends on mechanisms of control. Take the packet switching system of the internet as an example. "Demokratische Kontrolle" (democratic control) in turn is used in discussions on democracy in order to describe the role and responsibility of the formal democratic systems to "check" and yes, to "control", forces that play by their own rules, e.g. the financial market. There is a lot scepticism today whether such control is possible at all. Fusing the two terms into "demokratische Bewegungskontrolle" (democratic control of movement) was meant as a provocation, playing with the dystopian/emancipatory aspects of control, twisting them, turning them upside down. Looking at the reactions so far, we feel it has done its job – whether a good or bad job, we are not sure. The critical reflection as well as the critique of the terminology started already around April 2016, when BG embarked upon an exchange based on the BG position paper that was written as preparatory impulse for the TACIT FUTURES conference. The philosopher Marcia Cavalcante, who participated in this exchange, stated for instance: "Democratic control of movement, democratic participation in the decision regarding the “need” to control movement, such a claim is deeply ambiguous. It sounds to me very alike claims such as for a more just capitalism; capitalism is a system based on injustice and inequality and even if we must fight for more justice and equality within capitalism, we have to keep in mind that capitalism is based on unjust inequality and unequal justice. Of course, it is important to fight for more transparency, and against technologies of decision-making. [...] But this fight is not enough. Thus we shall not forget that democratic control is unfortunately always entangled with the control of democracy. How to control elections processes in order to avoid the election of a Hitler without controlling and thereby undermining democracy? Democratic control of movement – if I understood correctly the question – cannot be a response against the demagogy of fear, because it relies upon the same logic of fear. The political logic of fear is quite old. One of the oldest known Maya testimonies of colonization tells that the “dzoules”, the conquistadores, have taught them (the Mayas) fear and have castrated the sun. The logic of fear – its educational politics is the logic of control that shows its most devastating energy when it has to control the control itself, in order to enhance control. It seems that this is the main question that is being asked here. Asking how to control worldwide, ubiquitous control, we ask for a control that is even more controlling than the control itself. However, not asking how to control the control we remain hostage of the apocalyptic logic of uncontrolled control destructing itself. In this situation of no way out of the logic of control, the very simple fact of the possibility to remain alive, to resist alive, indicates another direction of meaning and of questioning. Thus how is it possible that singular life resists alive? Is not singular life as such already a resistance? Such a question may sound very “inoperative” but moving the question from the one about the need to control the control towards the question about how life resists control, towards the question of resisting both in the sense of ‘counter-acting’ and ‘not following’ the logic of control, it becomes possible to reengage with the need for developing today what John Keats, the romantic poet, called once “negative capability”." Some workshop guests of the TACIT FUTURES conference in turn tried to play with the term itself. The journalist, activist and organiser André Rebentisch for instance stated: "Bewegungskontrolle gefällt mir, weil a) von "Tanz" über "Gehen", Protest* bis hin physikalischen Effekten wie der Brownschen * extrem breit ist, b) sie technokratisch klingt, ein wenig dystopisch, c) "Kontrolle ist die Überwachung oder Überprüfung ...und somit ein Mittel zur Herrschaft oder Gewalt über jemanden oder etwas", Kont-Rolle, also die Gegenrolle, das Gegenlesen." In the Public Talks of TACIT FUTURES the control of movement was a primary dystopian narrative. And when it came to expand it with a democratic narrative, it seemed to cause irritation. For instance Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak said, that the notion of democratic control "scares" her. Even if there is more to it than that, we feel that a lasting effect of the word play will not be conveyed without an active discussion – like the one, that took place at our conference. Therefore, when it comes to preserve the ideas of the conference project for the future on a website that serves as a ressource rather than a discussion forum, the BG prefers to replace it with a more descriptive subtitle: "Re-imagining the Politics of Movement". We would like to modify this on the websites and all documents related to the project. It will take approx. seven days to get all this done. If you dislike this idea or have any arguments against this decision, please let us know by then by email (kw(at)berlinergazette.de). Kind regards, Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------* TACIT FUTURES | BERLINER GAZETTE ANNUAL PROJECT 2016 RE-IMAGINING THE POLITICS OF MOVEMENT* TACIT FUTURES: BG Annual Conference | Workshops, Performances, Talks Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 27.-29.10.2016http://berlinergazette.de/tacit-futures TACIT FUTURES: Essays and Interviews (in German)http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/ TACIT FUTURES: Documents of BG's annual project Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/72157662038932563 Videos: https://vimeo.com/album/3785772 Audios: https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/sets/tacit-futures ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Digi-yards_berlinergazette.de mailing list digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de https://ml06.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Pioneering the Thing Commons
by Michel Bauwens 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Panarchy 101: We Can Make It — Pioneering the Thing Commons https://medium.com/panarchy-101-or-how-i-learned-to-stop- worrying-and/panarchy-101-we-can-make-it-pioneering-the- thing-commons-eb6a193ed3ce -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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find out about 'transvestment'
by Michel Bauwens 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

find out about transvestment: Kleiner and Gottlieb are collaborators of the Berlin-based “Telekommunisten” collective http://telekommunisten.net (Last accessed on August 23, 2016). Kleiner publicly presented the concept of “transvestment” during the conference “Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People”, organized by the European union-funded P2P Value research project https://p2pvalue.eu (Last accessed on August 23, 2016), which took place in Barcelona from March 11 to 13 2016, Kleiner’s presentation took place in the framework of the roundtable “What Economy? Profit versus sustainability”. The quote was extracted from the entry “Transvestment” of the P2P Foundation’s Wiki (http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Transvestment , last accessed on August 23, 2016). At the time of publication of this article the whole presentation remained unpublished. A video recording of the entire presentation can be accessed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBzhon_vS0&feature=youtu.be&t=36m1s&spfrel… (Last accessed on August 23, 2016). -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: You can make policy! (And we can help!)
by Michel Bauwens 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sustainable Economies Law Center <communications(a)theselc.org> Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 12:03 AM Subject: You can make policy! (And we can help!) To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> [image: Sustainable Economies Law Center] <http://www.theselc.org/?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_sour…> Michel -- The election is 8 days away! No matter what your feelings on the Presidential race or the state of our national political discourse, there are likely many important decisions on the rest of your ballot this November. If you’re voting in Oakland, *we have endorsed Measure JJ, the Oakland Renter Protection Act <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oaklandtenantsunion.org%2Fprote…>*. Read more below! But your political participation doesn’t have to stop on November 8th -- *anyone can work to change city, state, and even national policies to build more just and resilient communities!* [image: Oakland City Council passes our Worker Cooperative Resolution.] *Oakland City Council passes our Worker Cooperative Resolution.* Here at Sustainable Economies Law Center, we want to live in a world where everyone can directly participate in decisions that shape their economic wellbeing: where everyone has the option to work in a worker-owned business, to live in democratically-controlled housing, to be a member of solar cooperatives, food cooperatives, and cooperative banks. This requires changing the very means by which policy is made. More than ever, when massive corporations wield incredible power to craft policy for their own benefit, *we urgently need to put everyday people like YOU back into the driver’s seat of policymaking*. *That’s why we’re piloting a Policy Cafe <http://www.theselc.org/policy_cafe_2016?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b828712…> in Oakland on December 5th to help you get started on your idea to change your community for the better.* Join us for our cafe and DIY Policymaking teach-in and explore your inner policymaker! <http://www.theselc.org/policy_cafe_2016?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b828712…> ------------------------------ IN THE NEWS Read our Policy Director’s op-ed in the Berkeleyside <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berkeleyside.com%2F2016%2F10%2F…> about often overlooked solutions to the housing crisis. FROM THE BLOG *Preliminary Feedback on New Homemade Food Sales Policy <http://www.theselc.org/preliminary_feedback_on_new_homemade_food_sales_poli…> * We have been developing ideas about expanding the scope of the California Homemade Food Act that we worked on several years ago. There is a lot of momentum around changing the law to include more types of prepared foods that are eligible for sale from a home kitchen. We have a lot of ideas and a lot of questions. Check out our new webpage <http://www.theselc.org/expanding_california_s_homemade_food_sales_law?e=5af…> full of tons of blogs, proposals, and updates on what’s been happening in this exciting area of food policy! *[image: Yes on Measure JJ] <http://www.theselc.org/preliminary_feedback_on_new_homemade_food_sales_poli…>* *Why We Endorse Oakland Measure JJ <http://www.theselc.org/why_we_endorse_measure_jj_oakland_renter_protection_…> * Sustainable Economies Law Center endorses Oakland Measure JJ, the Oakland Renter Protection Act. We recently declared <http://www.theselc.org/homeownership_is_dead?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8…>, “We have to stop profiting from property!” A necessary and parallel step to rethinking our extractive housing system as a whole is to stabilize the existing system. Protecting renters from the economic and psychological harm of eviction and untenable rent increases is good for the 60% of Oakland residents that are tenants. It’s also good for the rest of our communities because stable and self-determined neighborhoods are the foundation of more just and resilient local economies. UPCOMING EVENTS *Fall Volunteers & Members Happy Hour <http://www.theselc.org/fall_volunteers_members_hh?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237…> - November 1st (Double Standard, Oakland)* *Resilient Communities Legal Cafe <http://www.theselc.org/cafe_calendar?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b828712823…> - November & December (East Bay)* The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides direct legal advice, workshops, teach-ins, discussions, and legal services to businesses and organizations that are trying to make their communities a better place to live and thrive. Come, ask us your questions, and join others from your neighborhood who are taking their livelihoods, communities, and economies back! See dates and locations here <http://www.theselc.org/cafe_calendar?e=ed92f4e250cb217994ea15ec073e849b403e…> . *Teach-In: Selling Produce from Urban Farms* <http://www.theselc.org/selling_produce_from_urban_farms?e=5af0fb96cc3235051…> - *November 10th (City Slickers Farms, Oakland)* If you’re an urban farmer who wants to sell locally, a restaurant or store owner who wants to buy from local farms, or just interested in learning what the challenges and opportunities are for increasing local food production and consumption, please join us! We will discuss: - How to generate local economic activity through urban agriculture. - What it means to be a “community food producer” and how that affects your urban farm. - What it takes for local food retailers to buy locally produced food. *7th Annual Fall Celebration & Showcase <http://www.theselc.org/2016_fall_celebration?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8…> -* *November 17th* *(Impact HUB Oakland, Oakland)*Join the Sustainable Economies Law Center as we celebrate 7 years of cultivating a new legal landscape to support community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment! We’ll have a delicious dinner catered by Masa Pa’La Raza <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmasapalaraza%2F…>, local wine and beer, an entertaining presentation from the whole SELC team, and much more! Early Bird tickets on sale for only 5 more days! 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Fwd: Journey to Earthland (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:45 AM Subject: Journey to Earthland (GTN Discussion) To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com >From Michael Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------- [Moderator’s note: Please note that today is the last day of the discussion period, after which Paul will have an opportunity to respond. Final comments will be spaced out over today and tomorrow.] By Michel Bauwens, Celine Piques and Xavier Rizos: Our response at the P2P Foundation has been particularly triggered, not just by the great work and proposals of Paul Raskin, but by the specific commentary of Ruben Nelson of Foresight Canada, who stresses that what we are and must undergo, is a true civilizational transition. Nelson writes that: “In the past, all transitions in the forms of civilization were slow, local/regional, exclusive, optional and unconscious. Today, we are faced by the need to undertake a GT in our dominant form of civilization that, in contrast, must be fast (by any historic standard), scalable to the whole planet, inclusive of all 7.4 billion of us, recognized as required and conscious. This last requirement also implies that today we must not only be conscious about change at every scale, but must develop a capacity for meta-consciousness about change at every scale.” (www.greattransition.org/ forum/gti-discussions/178-journey-to-earthland/reply/2125 ) Several macro-historians have provided interesting maps of such civilizational transitions (1), but a very sound overview is The Structure of World History by Kojin Karatani (2), which suggests that a key element of such a transition is a reconfiguration of modes of exchange, and that a key aspect of a future civilization is the return to prominence of both the commons and reciprocity mechanisms as key drivers for the exchange of human value and natural resources. Like Alan Page Fiske in ‘Structures of Social Life’ (3) and David Ronfeldt with his TIMN framework (Tribes, Institutions, Markets, and Networks), Karatani takes a multi-modal approach. This means he recognizes and shows that at least four modes of exchange have existed throughout history and throughout all regions of the world, but what matters is their internal configuration, and especially, what is the dominant mode of exchange in any given system, which acts as an ‘attractor’ for the others. Karatani starts with describing the dominance of pooling in early nomadic societies based on kinship bands, the dominance of reciprocity and the gift economy in tribal federations; the dominance of state and rank-based redistribution (‘Authority Ranking’) in pre-capitalist class formations and finally, the dominance of the capitalist market. This means that civilisational transitions, marked by the evolution of one dominant exchange system to another, are regular occurrences in world history, and they are quite systematically described in Karatani’s remarkable synthesis. On the European continent, the two last of such transitions were the 10th transition of the post-Roman plunder economy into the feudal land-based economy, brilliantly described in Robert Moore’s First European Revolution, and the 15th century start of the transition to a market-based economy. Karatani makes a special argument that networked technologies bring back pooling and the commons as central exchange mechanisms, and at the P2P Foundation, we have focused for the last ten years on the observation of precisely that transition, and specifically, on the emergence of commons-based peer production, which was first identified by Yochai Benkler in his answer to Adam Smith, i.e., The Wealth of Networks. Peer production is a proto-mode of production which is marked by open input into contributory systems, participatory modes of governance, and commons-oriented output. While it has emerged in the field of immaterial production such as free software and open design, it is now moving towards physical production, through its combination with networked modes of financing and distributed capital goods (distributed manufacturing). This mode of production and exchange exists either in a context of profit-maximisation, when the contributive productive communities are surrounded by extractive corporations, as is the case for example in most of free software production, or in a context of the emergence of generative and ethical entrepreneurial coalitions. These are coalitions of mostly mission-oriented, purpose-driven entrepreneurs who are take on legal forms from the cooperative and solidarity economy and are starting to practice shared open and contributory accounting, as well as taking first steps in participatory eco-systems of production and distribution that are using open supply chains. Examples of such models are the ones of Enspiral in New Zealand, Las Indias in Spain, Sensorica in Canada, and more. A recent 3-year study of 300 such peer production communities, called P2P Value and funded by the EU, came to interesting conclusions. For example, nearly all of them qualified as imaginary communities (cfr. Benedict Anderson’s work on the emergence of the ‘nation’-state), marked by both a generative desire (make the world a better place and solve social and environmental issues), an identification with global networks of belonging, the use and planning of contributory accounting mechanisms (in 78% of the cases), and the use of peer-based reputation mechanisms. In other words, this new model that combines open contributory productive communities and their livelihood organisations are part and parcel of the now necessary transition from extractive/degenerative modes of production and exchange, to regenerative models, as described also by John. D. Liu. Our conviction that peer production models based on the commons are central to the GTI is also strengthened by the 3,000-year comparative study undertaken by Mark Whitaker (4), which shows how the mutualization of knowledge, the mutualization of infrastructures, and the relocalization of productive capacity have been central to the ‘civilizational transitions’ in the past, in Europe, Japan, and China. But whereas religious reform movements were at the core of the past transitions, the historical agent now seems to be more secular-minded productive communities, as the open and free software and design movements, the cooperative and solidarity economy movements, and the attempts at relocalized production prototyping by the fabbing communities. So what is most interesting in this context, is the potential environmental impact in terms of the material footprint: 1. First of all, none of these design and production communities practice ‘planned obsolescence’, which is not a bug but a feature of market-based production; they focus instead on sustainable open source circular economies 2. The generative entrepreneurial coalitions are motivated by the creation of ‘open, fair, and sustainable’ livelihoods, and take into account externalities, unlike capitalist markets 3. Nearly all these projects are based on the principle of cosmo-localization, i.e., design global, manufacture local, under the principle ‘what is light is shared globally, what is heavy is produced locally’. Given that the GDP of transport is higher than the GDP of production and that some studies point to a 3 to 1 expenditure of energy of transportation vs making, this alone has huge ecological implications in terms of footprint. This potential is well-argued in a recent article, by Stephen Quilley, Jason Hawreliak et al. (5): The authors write: “For example, if it were ever possible to 3D print computer chips and construct/repair/upgrade telecommunications technology in a domestic or community setting, it is possible to envisage a massive reduction in the associated metabolic footprint (the ‘unit transformity cost’) of mobile telephony or computing. The possibility of reducing the metabolic cost of complexity goes to the heart of the left-green dilemma. Social emancipation has hitherto depended on forms of technological and social complexity that involve an economic scale (the throughput of energy and materials) that is, in the long term, unsustainable. It is an open question as to whether a reMaker society might eventually make complexity affordable. Such a society would be much more decentralised with a great deal of active participation in the making, repair, and recycling of everyday goods, thus possibly presenting a significant growth in the informal economy. The potential for a modern green distributive political economy is one in which the goods produced are much cheaper and sustainable to make, relies on open design and flexible fabrication, collaborative design and funding (crowdsourcing), modularity, and electronic re-invention based on need, rather than want. The potential primary social and economic outcomes of such a new society emerge from the interplay of new social milieu and re-focusing of technological innovation.” Of course, we are not claiming that all this potential is fully reached right here and now, but making the more general argument that a shift towards commons-based peer production, and thus to the centrality of pooling and the commons, is a key feature of the next Great Transition. Peer production is the right structure for the transition, as it combines a productive civil society based on contributions to the commons, a generative post-capitalist market economy (which includes a framework of reciprocity and mutual coordination in participatory eco-systems for open source circular economies), and for-benefit institutions as enabling mechanisms that maintain the infrastructures of cooperation, and prefigure a future ‘partner state’, which creates the general conditions for societal cooperation. In other words, this is not just a micro-structure, but also a macro-structure for societal organization. The Blaqswans Collective - in association with the P2P lab, a specialized research unit linked to the P2P Foundation -, with Xavier Rizos and Celine Piques as coordinators, has made a first attempt to illustrate the potential gains in material footprint, if an integrated transition towards this new mode of production and exchange would take place, taking case studies from agriculture and food production to industrial manufacturing and renewable energy. The early results of this preliminary study and review of the potential and actual gains in the thermodynamic necessities of food production, were it to undergo a shift through regenerative practices confirm our hopes. Xavier Rizos confirms that “The feasibility is unequivocal and the thermodynamics efficiencies proven: all studies and multiyear live experiments show that agro-ecology not only delivers the required regeneration of the ecosystems, but also produces between 30% and 80% efficiencies across metrics ranging from yield, to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.” However, our research team also insists that such a shift must be integrative, including the various practices of peer production and mutualization of productive resources; that it must take place place under a growth regime of maximum 1% to be effective at all; and that the changes have strong requirements for structural transformation. In other words, our conviction is that there cannot be a Great Transition without a systemic transformation from a market-centric to a commons-centric form. Some references: 1. Macrohistory and Macrohistorians. By J. Galtung, and Sohail Inayatullah (eds), Praeger, New York, 1997 2. The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange. By Kojin Karatani. Duke University Press, 2014 3. The Structures of Social Life. Alan Page Fiske. Free Press, 1993 4. Ecological Revolution: The Political Origins of Environmental Degradation and the Environmental Origins of Axial Religions; China, Japan, Europe. by Mark D. Whitaker. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010 5. Finding an Alternate Route: Towards Open, Eco-cyclical, and Distributed Production. By Stephen Quilley, Jason Hawreliak, Kaitlin Kish. Journal of Peer Production, Issue #9: Alternative Internets, 2016 ; peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/ peer-reviewed-papers/finding-an-alternate-route-towards- open-eco-cyclical-and-distributed-production/ ********************************************* Thursday, September 1, 2016 >From Paul Raskin ----- Dear Friends: Our series of thematic discussions has been uncommonly rich and animated. Still, from time to time we’d best step back to a whole-system panorama, lest we lose sight of the forest for the trees. After all, it is the big question of how to shape the global social-ecological future that brings us together. In that holistic spirit, our next discussion will consider my new essay—“Journey to Earthland: Making the Great Transition to Planetary Civilization” (or “JTE,” for short). I wrote it as a sequel to “Great Transition,” the 2002 treatise that launched GTI. The new volume has four central aims. First, it updates and develops GTI’s overarching conceptual framework. Second, it introduces the idea of “Earthland” for the latent supranational community now stirring in the Planetary Phase. Third, it describes the integrated planetary praxis and global movement needed to carry the transformation forward. Fourth, it paints a granular picture of the kind of flourishing civilization that might await us on the far side of a Great Transition. To get your copy of JTE, go to www.greattransition.org/ publication/journey-to-earthland. From there, you can either download a free pdf or order a paperback through Amazon for $12. (If neither of these options works for you, please request a complimentary copy by emailing info(a)tellus.org with your mailing address.) In light of JTE’s sweeping scope, I suspect many of you will wish to elaborate certain formulations and take issue with others. I welcome your comments in the spirit of a collective exploration with ample room for difference within a canopy of unity. NOTE: This discussion will go on for TWO full months—SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER. Looking forward, Paul Paul Raskin GTI Director ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a message Or see thread and reply online at http://greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/178- journey-to-earthland/2168 Need help? 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