Robin Dunbar explains how come there is an optimal size of community – and gives us good reasons to keep the minimum cell size of our shared market to under 150.
Author: Stephen Hinton
Getting help with influencing society
There are ways and means and organisations ready to support the groundswell of citizen involvement in policy-making Digidem lab based in Sweden is one of them. Digidem Lab offers services and develops platforms for the participatory democracy of the future. https://digidemlab.org/en/services/
You just need kindness
One of the early applicants for the Water Air Food Award, Incredible Edible edible from Todmorden, UK – has gone on to inspire towns all over the UK to grow food everywhere (even outside the police station!) and just let people come and harvest it! And they have got really good at it! CNN did a lovely piece on them. (You have to watch the advert first) https://edition.cnn.com/videos/foodanddrink/2018/08/06/sharing-food.cnn Incredible Edible shows you how to get […]
Re-thinking the centre of your community
Place: Stockton, UK. Happening: The Stockton vision is to buy up, repurpose, restore and reconfigure the heart of the town, emphasising events, independent enterprise, green space and conviviality. This article from the Guardian gives a lot of new insight into what a community can do. Including refusing to leave the fate of the town up to developers.
One good reason to start your local 146 club: overshoot
At least see what we can do to push overshoot day back!
Mutualisation
Chris Cook proposes institutions as mutual risk, cost, surplus, asset & data sharing agreements between people not institutions as public=state/municipality or private virtual legal persons (corporates) & instruments as assignable relationships/credits, not exchangeable virtual objects. He thinks we may introduce 21st C distributed Treasury, Mint & Exchequer; “stock” credit instrument & network associations/clubs. Mutual/reciprocal ‘club’ agreements are complementary transcending jurisdiction & independent of law. eg P&I Clubs https://nondominium.co.uk/2021/01/11/protocols-promises-power-_20_11_20/…
146 Manifesto
We recognise: 1) People are waking up to the reality of existential climate risk and how all will suffer, but the poorest will suffer the most . The negative impacts to society of economic activities and on biosystems are equally alarming and high priority. 2) People see the sluggishness of system response and inequity The alarm was raised 30 years ago. Since then, talk has happened but as Greta Thunberg points out there is no […]