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The infrastructure of the FairCoop is now sufficiently in place for it to be useful, the next step is getting more participation from the public 
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Toward a Collaborative Technology Alliance: Because we’re all unique, we bring different gifts, talents, and approaches to this shared intention.
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We used to share common resources with our communities. Now sharing is the word we use for paying a tech start-up to connect us with people to transact with
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Policy is important, and with that in mind I would advise to keenly keep an eye on the Friends of the Earth Ireland’s work on new policy recommendations for renewable energy that involve the community. This involvement of the community may or may not be authentic. Friends of the Earth are also good friends of the Green Party in Ireland, as elsewhere, and it should be noted that the Irish party leader Eamonn Ryan is a member/adviser/associate of the green investment group E3G (http://www.e3g.org/showcase/green-investment-bank/), an investment body for large scale centralized renewable energy projects. I suspect that the measures for community involvement may yet be piecemeal rather than authentic, where I would see ‘authentic’ as being an investment in Community Owned RE, with the initial investment made in such a way as pays a fair dividend and contains a buyout period after the initial investment where the community become owners of the infrastructure created. This follows as a materially applicable version of the Business Source commercial OS software model in terms of national and natural resources.
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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John Higson’s priority is how to involve a maximum number of people involved in decision-making processes in the creation of sustainable local economies. John Higson is a “social entrepreneur, and former branding consultant that got tired of creating added value for products that lack true value. John is convinced that our most wasted natural resource(s) …
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This is really good panel on the necessary cooperative forms for the sharing economy: ““Given the mounting attention to the unethical labor practices in the so-called “collaborative sharing economy” with labor brokerages like Handy and Uber, what are the alternatives? Imagine for one moment that the algorithmic heart of any of these citadels of anti-unionism …
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“Most co–operative practice is single stakeholder. Therefore the co-op sector divides between typically consumer co-ops, worker co-ops and farmer co-ops, each generally with their backs to each other and walking away from each other. This one dimensional aspect is impeding in my view an untapped revolutionary economic potential for a new generation of full dimensional co-ops to ignite.
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