[P2P-F] Training for facilitators of collaboration between local, government& local commons

Tue Jul 26 20:28:22 CEST 2011

We're helping food justice and "soil up" development organizations in  
Brooklyn, NY use free/libre/opensource tools (software/hardware) and  
techniques (hacks/unconferences) to become more efficient and  
collaborative, internally and externally.  Our work is underway and  
we're currently designing a more formal ciriculum/program plan to  
share/document our efforts.

We need feedback and help, so we'd love to join a conversation about  
applying the priniples discussed here to local and (bio)regional  
communities.

DWB

On Jul 26, 2011, at 13:46, teleboiski at gmail.com wrote:

> In terms of community collaboration, I am a co-founder and board  
> member of the Alliance for Cooperative Innovation. We have extensive  
> experience in community collaboration involving public/private  
> partnerships. Our process and program could easily be re-purposed to  
> enable public/community partnerships in support of the community  
> commons.
>
> Jeff Sterling
> Commonskeeper
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> From: George Por <george at community-intelligence.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:00:06 +0100
> To: P2P Foundation mailing list<p2p-foundation at lists.ourproject.org>
> Cc: Jeffrey Sterling<teleboiski at gmail.com>; Tia Carr Williams<tiacarrwilliams at gmail.com 
> >; Anna Betz<modernherbalmedicine at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Training for facilitators of collaboration between local,  
> government & local commons
>
> Michel,
>
> > I have no time either for now but see http://p2pfoundation.net/Civic_Commons
>
> Ah, I should have known that you’ve already processed that... :-)
>
> You quoted, “The RSA is working with citizens, decision-makers and o 
> ther organisations in Peterborough to develop a Peterborough Civic C 
> ommons between 2010 and 2012.”
>
> 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 stakeholders’ rights and re 
> sponsibilities 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 <george at community-intelligence.com 
> > wrote:
> Are you guys familiar with “The Civic Commons: A model for social ac 
> tion”?
> http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/385518/RSA-Civic-Commons-Final.pdf
>
> For a quick glance, it seems it’s worth our attention, but I  
> don’t have time just now to dive into it. If anybody has, pls let us 
>  know what you think.
>
> george
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Jeffrey Sterling <MailScanner has  
> detected a possible fraud attempt from "teleboiski at gmail.com"  
> claiming to be MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt  
> from "teleboiski at gmail.com" claiming to be teleboiski at gmail.com <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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