[P2P-F] RSA in the UK

Tue Jul 26 18:41:45 CEST 2011

> hi Michel,
> 
>> > the RSA must be one of the most prestigious institutions in the UK, no?
> 
> yep
> 
>> > must be quite difficult to get 'in' there,
> 
> not too difficult if one is recommended by member friends, only expensive
> 
>> > there series of animated presentations are really great,
> 
> yeah, there are quite many radical public intellectuals among the members...
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM, George Por
> <george at community-intelligence.com> wrote:
>> Michel, 
>> 
>>> > I have no time either for now but see
>>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Civic_Commons
>> 
>> Ah, I should have known that you¹ve already processed that... :-)
>> 
>> You quoted, ³The RSA is working with citizens, decision-makers and other
>> organisations in Peterborough to develop a Peterborough Civic Commons between
>> 2010 and 2012.²
>> 
>> Hm... its sounds like we have something to talk about with RSA... You may
>> want to know that one of the main directions of our work at the School of
>> Commoning is developing a training program, as a result of which public
>> service workers and community change champions will be better prepared to
>> facilitate the self-organization of various local cooperatives, citizen
>> councils, commons trusts, and the emergence of the stakeholders¹ rights and
>> responsibilities in protection of common resources.
>> 
>> If anybody on this list does similar work or knows of somebody doing it, we
>> would love to get in touch and common with them.
>> 
>> george
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:35 PM, George Por <MailScanner has detected a
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>>> > wrote:
>>>> Are you guys familiar with ³The Civic Commons: A model for social action²?
>>>> http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/385518/RSA-Civic-Commons-
>>>> Final.pdf
>>>> 
>>>> For a quick glance, it seems it¹s worth our attention, but I don¹t have
>>>> time just now to dive into it. If anybody has, pls let us know what you
>>>> think.
>>>> 
>>>> george
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> <http://[email protected]>  <http://[email protected]> > wrote:
>>>>> The global economy is broken because it has evolved and mutated to serve
>>>>> the needs corporations (govt corps and fortune 1000 corps) not human
>>>>> beings. Many of the commonskeeper and caregiver roles that are a critical
>>>>> function for civil society are either considered undervalued chores or the
>>>>> responsibility of some bureaucracy. It is imperative to take back
>>>>> responsibility for our community commons and form cooperative
>>>>> organizations that work to reduce the demand for resources and services
>>>>> that are not local. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We need to create a new language and toolkit for a network of community
>>>>> economies (geographical and virtual)  where people can aggregate demand
>>>>> for products/services and fulfill those needs without the middleman (aka
>>>>> Fortune 1000 corporations). As we evolve our new economy we must find ways
>>>>> to allow many kinds of public benefit organizations to flourish and
>>>>> collaborate by being compensated for overall demand reduction. As such,
>>>>> the future of resilient, eco-sustainable communities is in demand-side
>>>>> reduction cooperatives. Our ablility to set the agenda lies in our control
>>>>> of the entire demand-side of the economic equation and our ability to
>>>>> self-organize using the Internet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Let's take a closer look at the community infrastructure from the
>>>>> supply-side and the demand-side.
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On the supply side a community may have a electricity company, a water
>>>>>>> company, a gas company, oil companies (gasoline), and waste stream
>>>>>>> companies (sewer, trash, recycle, compost). Each company is siloed and
>>>>>>> views their job as maintaining and operating a supply chain for an ever
>>>>>>> growing demand for their service. Some pay lip service to demand
>>>>>>> reduction at times but it is a "fox in the hen house" situation.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> Now suppose community members created a demand side reduction
>>>>>>> cooperative, that was funded through a performance based contract placed
>>>>>>> on each of the supply side companies, that provided demand side
>>>>>>> reduction services to it's members.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> Examples:
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Catching rainwater in cisterns for graywater and freshwater supply
>>>>>>> that eliminated the need for the next groundwater well or dam.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Superinsulating all homes in a community to reduce the number of new
>>>>>>> powerplants or a new gas pipeline.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Creating a smart microgrid that will provide peaking power negawatts
>>>>>>> as an independent power producer and provide solar collectors for peak
>>>>>>> cooling as well as battery backup storage and essential power to
>>>>>>> computers in the home.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Creating a community wide distributed generation system that provides
>>>>>>> essential power to the community in case of disaster plus CHP (combined
>>>>>>> heat power) to the local hospital/greenhouse/community pool.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Creating an on demand local ridesharing and shopping delivering
>>>>>>> service using community members and their vehicles to reduce the demand
>>>>>>> for cars/roads/gasoline and providing jobs for underemployed people and
>>>>>>> reducing the demand for underfunding government services.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> - Creating community reuse services that reduce the demand for recycling
>>>>>>> and waste removal that reduces the need for landfills.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> The basic idea is that siloed supply side companies are not in the
>>>>>>> business of reducing demand they are in the business of increasing
>>>>>>> supply which damages the environment and is not sustainable. Creating
>>>>>>> community-run demand side reduction coops (that are voluntary) will make
>>>>>>> a community resilient, sustainable and will create work for community
>>>>>>> members. Having a community-owned cloud will make the integration of
>>>>>>> demand side reduction services into the life of a community possible.
>>>>>>> Also establishing performance based contracts where demand reductions
>>>>>>> are measured with make it possible for demand side reduction services to
>>>>>>> be cash flow positive because demand reduction decreases the need for
>>>>>>> supply which keep the money in the community.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Given a choice people are usually willing to do more with less.
>>>>> Integrating our demand-side consumption using demand-side reduction
>>>>> cooperatives and other community benefit entities wil create meaningful
>>>>> work within one's own community and make our community more resilient and
>>>>> eco-sustainable.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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