Engaging For the Commons - Global Pull Platform In january 2011, The Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, called for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival. A year later, the Global Sustainability Panel he created to this effect published its recommendations report for Rio+20: Resilient people, resilient Planet, a future worth choosing. The vision of the GSP as expressed in the report revolves around choice, influence, participation and action, and calls for a political process "able to summon both the arguments and the political will necessary to act for a sustainable future."… Whether one agrees or not with the principles of political economics put forward by the UN, "activating" human agency and political will and addressing the root causes for power unbalance and resistance to change is at the heart of tomorrow's paradigm shift. The principles of the platform. The process consists in letting people/organizations: The ecosystem is composed of: The platform creates a context for the following:
Rio+20 – Tragedy of the Commons 2.0? Are the discussions on sustainability at Rio about to end once more with no serious commitment to the fundamental transformations needed? These coming three days will be decisive with heads of state coming to a closure at the end of the week. They are summoned to exercise leadership and face their responsibilities. The feedback received from Rio is unpromising, after mobilizing for proposals via The Future We Want and other avenues for feedback and recommendation, most of the organizations representing civil society feel they have hardly been able to get their voice heard and they are now circulating a petition on The Future We Don’t Want… An admission of failure and the sentiment of having been played? As a result, the People Summit held dialogues outside of the UN participation structure and published 'Another Future is Possible' in direct opposition to the orientations the UN negociators have been taking in the past few months.
Debategraph <-- Outline view Paul Hawken describes the challenge of sustainability and activist movements that he sees converging into an unnamed and shapeless 'movement' in his book Blessed Unrest: " ... as yet there has been no coming together of organizations in a united front that can counter the massive scale and power of the global corporations and lobbyists that protect the status quo. ...The as yet undelivered promise of this movement is a network of organizations that offer solutions to disantangle what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture, and many more. The world seems to be looking for the big solution, which is itself part of the problem, since the most effective solutions are both local and systemic. Although the groups in the movement are autonomous, the coming together of different organizations to address an array of issues can effectively become a systemic approach.
Shortage of Resources for Renewable Energy. UK Government Report Calls for “Strategic Metals” Plan. Not only are supplies of oil and natural gas under imminent threat of failing to meet demand for them, but so is a whole range of precious metals, along with indium, gallium and germanium and other vital elements such as phosphorus and helium, as is discussed throughout this Commentary. A report1 from the Science and Technology Committee, advised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, warns that if the U.K. does not secure supplies of strategic metals, its economic growth will be severely jeopardized. Of particular concern are indium, used in touch screens and liquid crystal displays, and rare earth elements (REEs) particularly neodymium and dysprosium, used to fabricate highly efficient magnets for electric cars and wind turbines. Endangered Elements: Threat to Green Energy. Peak Oil - Peak Minerals. The above analyses rest upon the case that the determined "peaks" represent actual global production maxima. Table 1. Table 2.
Common goods 07/04/2014 - Discover what we can learn from different ways of bringing people together to make sense of issues and develop solutions that they can take forward. 06/04/2014 - We're developing a Transeuropa Village with Tate Britain, Millbank Estate TMO and Chelsea College of Art & Design for Europe Day. We're looking for how you'd like to use the space! ... 04/04/2014 - European Alternatives, Tate Britain, Millbank Estate TMO and Chelsea College of Art & Design are working together to celebrate Europe Day on the 9-10 May 2014 at our "Transeuropa ... 02/04/2014 - If politicians want to try and understand how people live, they need to really step out on the streets and not try and reach out to to Mr & Mrs Average. How does politics engage with voters for the ...
Ming the Mechanic: Ten incredible things we get for free by Flemming Funch Life2.0: Here are 10 wonderful things that just seem to happen by themselves: • Diversity & Harmony • Connection & Friendship • Self-organisation & Synergy • Resonance & Synchronicity • Insight & The spread of great ideas • Emergence & Paradigm Shifts • Learning & Growth • Happiness & Flow • Healing & Forgiveness • Relaxation & Enlightenment Not a bad list is it? Don't you find it comforting to know that without our interference things have a way of working out just fine... that life is basically set up to help us succeed no matter what? And all of these phenomena seem to work whether we believe in them or not. Philip Dick defined reality as 'that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away'. My favorite stuff in life is that kind of stuff that comes for free, the stuff one can't control, but that is great when it happens. And my favorite passtime is to try to figure out how to make those kinds of things happen anyway. That's a bit of a paradox, of course.
Tragedy of the commons Self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource The tragedy of the commons is a metaphoric label for a concept that is widely discussed, and criticised, in economics, ecology and other sciences. According to the concept, should a number of people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource such as a pasture, they will tend to over-use it, and may end up destroying its value altogether. Even if some users exercised voluntary restraint, the other users would merely supplant them, the predictable result being a tragedy for all. The metaphor is the title of a 1968 essay by ecologist Garrett Hardin. The principal concern of Hardin's essay was overpopulation of the planet. Some scholars have argued that over-exploitation of the common resource is by no means inevitable, since the individuals concerned may be able to achieve mutual restraint by consensus. Expositions[edit] Classical[edit] Lloyd's pamphlet[edit] Garrett Hardin's article[edit] Therein is the tragedy. [edit]
La redécouverte des biens communs Traduction de l'anglais de «The Rediscovery of the Commons» David Bollier David Bollier est un spécialiste en stratégie, journaliste et consultant indépendant avec des activités d'intérêt général variées. Traduction de l'anglais: Olivier Berger Copyright © 2003 David Bollier Résumé Le discours qui prévaut pour parler de l'Internet est celui du marché. The prevailing discourse for talking about the Internet is that of the market. Les catégories intellectuelles de la doctrine du libre marché sont ancrées si profondément dans notre conscience qu'il est souvent difficile de voir le monde tel qu'il existe. Dans ce no-mans-land, nous ne disposons pas vraiment des outils conceptuels nécessaires à la compréhension de nombreux types de comportements en-ligne. Un problème, je crois, est que nous n'arrivons pas à reconnaître la dynamique des biens communs — un modèle pour la gestion des ressources basé sur la communauté. Le discours qui prévaut pour parler de l'Internet est celui du marché.
Quelles différences entre les biens communs et le communisme ? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism Quelle sont les similitudes divergences entre les traditions socialistes et l'émergence des idées et pratiques liées au P2P et des biens communs ? Michel Bauwens, fondateur de la P2P Foundation, nous explique sa vision. Titre original : How does the idea of p2p and the commons differ from the socialist tradition? Dans cet article du journal Pagina 12, le journaliste Mariano Blejman écrit que je mets sur le même plan le matériel ouvert et socialisme. Et c’est également le message qui semble être relayé aujourd’hui sur twitter. Ceci n’est pas exactement ma position, et j’aimerais donc en profiter pour publier de nouveau un précédent article qui explique notre positionnement vis à vis du socialisme. Quelle est la connexion entre la tradition historique du socialisme/communisme et l’émergence contemporaine des idéologies liées au peer to peer et des biens publics ? Notre interprétation du communisme Et le Peer to Peer ? Quelles sont alors les principales différences avec le communisme ?
Category:Commons = What we share. Creations of both nature and society that belong to all of us equally, and should be maintained for future generations. The Commons has the potential to replace the commodity as the determining form of re-/producing societal living conditions. This new section exclusively devoted to the emergence of Commons in various fields. Most commons fall into three general categories – gifts of nature, material creations, and intangible creations (i.e. the Three Commons. [2]. "Our global economic system is now in grave crisis, threatening the entire planet, its institutions and species. A new kind of common wealth is needed to protect the assets of Earth, resolve our private and public debts, and create a global society of justice, sharing and sustainability for everyone. Our commons are the collective heritage of humanity — the shared resources of nature and society that we inherit, create and use. Twelve Key Assets of Ogallala Commons Charlotte Hess: Mapping the New Commons 0. 1.
Value Of The Public Domain Introduction One of the first printed texts of which we have record is a copy of the Buddhist Diamond sutra produced in China around 868AD. In it can be found the dedication: "for universal free distribution". Clearly, the idea of public domain, that is open access to knowledge 1 , has been present since humanity first began to formally transmit and share ideas. With the development of trade and technology, particularly during the Renaissance in Europe, these parallel approaches of openness and secrecy continued to evolve but the tension between them also increased. However there have also been considerable changes. However the most significant of all changes underlies these others, for it is the change in the role of knowledge in society and the economy. What do these vast changes mean for the production and dissemination of knowledge, as well as for their regulation and support by government? Too often this value has been unarticulated and thereby left vulnerable. General Remarks
Cause commune Cause commune : l’information entre bien commun et propriété vient d’être réédité en livre numérique chez publie.net avec une préface originale. L’édition papier a paru aux Editions Fayard dans la collection Transversales (février 2005). Pour des informations sur les traductions choisissez la langue correspondante dans les menus de bas de page. Achetez le livre numérique : chez publie.net Achetez le livre papier : Achetez le chez votre libraire préféré, ou si ce n’est pas possible en ligne (Alapage, Amazon, Decitre, FNAC) … et / ou téléchargez le La version PDF du livre Cause commune : l’information entre bien commun et propriété est mise à disposition sous un contrat Creative Commons Télécharger (format PDF) Quatrième de couverture L’information et ses technologies refaçonnent notre univers technique, social et éthique, mais ces bouleversements se font dans deux directions opposées selon que l’on choisit d’en encourager l’appropriation privée ou d’en faire des biens communs. Revue de presse