coopcoopRelated: community, operate CooperationCommons.com >>The Cooperation Commons aims to create an interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action... NetworkCultures.org/geert/out-cooperating-the-empire-exchange-with-christoph-spehr Coopolis --- Cooperative Politic - an Ecocomics entry. Begin by purchasing some land, tools and organisms and placing them under GNU General Public Law. . Users rent or buy those physical sources. . Workers specialize according to skill and enjoyment. . User may always do their own work if qualified. . Permaculture provides nearly free raw materials for food, medicine, clothing, housing. . Non-profit banking and insurance. * Consumers drive innovation and production by requesting solutions. * Qualified artisans contract with consumers _before_ completing requested work. * Artisans are entreprenuers, and may pay others to deal with customers etc. * Investors purchase capital resources such as tools, buildings, organisms, etc. as usual. * These new owners lease capital to qualified laborers until reimbursement is completed twice (for insurance coverage). The rent is then reduced to operational costs (wear/tear/parts, lubricants/fluids, etc.) and external taxes. * Just as with GPLed software, the realworld owner (whether of copyright, vehicle pink-slip, land deed, patent, etc.) is important only in preventing capture from other realworld owners. The usual 'rights' of the owner to charge more than cost are voluntarily relenquished (through the rental agreement's wording) in the hopes that the community will flourish by protecting the worker. * Workers may receive payment for the creation of reproducible finite materials (designs, genetics, software, media, intellect), but access to copy these must be LOCKED OPEN to disallow artificial scarcity. * Some of the irreproducible finite resources (land, water, wavelengths) are long-term leased and LOCK CLOSED for privacy and assurance. * Gifting organism permaculture landscaping [permascaping] simultaneously beautifies and provides raw materials for all food, drink, drug, cloth, soap, house, heat. * Non-profit insurance and banking for local permanence and wealth storage. * Reuse, repair, reverse, recycle, retrofit all machines and material. High level 'rules' that must be enforced: The consumer must always have ultimate access: I must always be allowed to do my own work if qualified. Qualification determined in a fair manner: These limitations are meant to protect citizens and machinery from destruction and abuse. Hoarding must be limited in whatever way: An actor must never be able to rent sources in a leveraging way against another. Green is not enough. Our cities are green but barren. Every plant we install (along the road, by a building, in a park) should be gifting. We are watering and caring for them anyway. The 'extra' work must be done by somebody - somewhere in the world to supply the raw materials of our needs. Bringing that work local gives wealth, control, security and power to the people. Permaculture is utilized for most raw materials. Reuse/repair/recycle for others. Just as with GPL software, the owner of copyright, pink-slip, land deed, patent, etc. is only important in preventing capture by other feudalists. Some resources are long-term leased and LOCK CLOSED for private access. True insurance and banking are for benfit, not profit. Corporatism promotes division, scarcity, dependence, low wages, captive markets. Cooporatism promotes community, abundance, independence, skill-driven wages, optional markets. SourceOpen.org DemoTech.org EcoTecture.com SelfHelpCorp.com CommunitiesByChoice.org AgroEcology.org Media.MIT.edu/~nitin/ Abundance-Ecovillage.com ICECLT.org >>The Institute for Community Economics (ICE) is a national community development organization promoting economic justice through community land trusts (CLTs) and community investment. As the originator of the CLT model, ICE has supported the growth of CLTs across the United States and Canada. ICE is also a certified Community Development Financial Institution with an $11 million loan fund which provides financing to CLTs and other non-profit groups. ICE has assisted hundreds of grassroots organizations to build or rehabilitate thousands of units of permanently affordable housing in both rural and urban neighborhoods throughout the country. Walden3.org Okeonux.org Open.coop Permakultur.net Shelter.org Sustainable.org Cooporatism is a rewrite of Communityism which came from the "Communityism rough draft" and "Peace on Earth". The GPL is a cooporative agreement. Most other Open Source CoopOS could be a Cooporative scheduling Operating System. Trademark/patent/Copyright info: Coopoly, Cooporacy, Coopolis dualistic symbology is a syncretism of: Dominate non-humans Dehydrate fruit Cut wood Murder weeds Shovel soil Sacrifice creatures Tan hide Dehydrate fruit CHI RHO Cooporation is pragmatic, corporate cooperatism. Coopolies are colorful collective corporations.