Conversation Cafés are one-and-a-half hour hosted
conversations, held in a public setting like a café, where anyone is welcome to join. A simple format helps
people feel at ease and gives everyone who wants it a chance to speak. Who wants to start one in Los Alamos?
The People-Centered Development Forum (PCDF).
(Primarily David Korten's site.)
"Hope for the human future rests...not with institutions of power, but with the millions of individuals
all around the world who are awakening, as if from a deep trance, to the reality of our collective crisis."
See particularly the Living
Economies Program.
The Transitioner. "Collective Intelligence
in the Economy, Economy in Collective Intelligence" TheTransitioner.org brings together those who want to
marry the economy and Collective Intelligence in order to build a fair world.
This is a wiki, i.e. a public participative website made by its visitors.
Major topics are collective intelligence, open money and complementary currencies, and the economy.
Ecotopia has link categories labeled EcoEducation, EcoEconomics, EcoCommunities
(try NOPEC: Non-Oil, Power-Exporting Communities),
EcoLiving, and several subcategories of EcoTechnologies: Solar Energy, Transportation, and Conservation.
From their EcoWebPress EcoWebPress page:
Consensus Decision Making.
Earth Rights Institute. Major projects include ecovillages
(urban or rural communities of people, who strive to integrate a supportive social environment
with a low-impact way of life by integrating various aspects of ecological design, permaculture,
ecological building, green production, alternative energy, and community building practices) and
education for peace and eco-justice.
Ending Coporate Governance: Revoking Our Plutocracy.
Model brief to eliminate corporate rights, reading list, recommended articles and links.
(From the rat haus reality press.)
The
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund cooperates
with POCLAD in running the Daniel Pennock Democracy School at Boston College and in corporate
charter revocation battles.
International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), to promote and strengthen autonomous co-operatives in all sectors of activity including agriculture, banking, energy, industry, insurance, fisheries, housing, tourism and consumer co-operatives.
Center for the Study of Democratic Societies.
Spearheaded by Robley E. George, who has a very specific form of democracy in mind:
"Socioeconomic Democracy is a model economic system, or more precisely, socioeconomic subsystem, in which there is some form of Universal Guaranteed Personal Income as well as some form of Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth, with both the lower bound on personal material poverty and the upper bound on personal material wealth set and adjusted democratically by all society."
Center for Economic and Social Justice. Another specific
socioeconomic reform idea, the Capital Homestead Act, "a comprehensive national economic strategy for empowering every American citizen...with the means to acquire, control and enjoy the fruits of productive corporate assets...major restructuring of our tax system and our Federal Reserve policies..."