[P2P-F] Training for facilitators of collaboration between local, government& local commons
Devin Balkind
devinbalkind at gmail.com
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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