Diigo Update 03/31/2020

• Online Resources - Climate Interactive

  "As part of Climate Interactive’s mission to create accessible, learning-oriented tools and simulations, we are proud to provide a suite of free, online resources to deliver critical insights for understanding and addressing climate change. Whether you are trying to reach geographically diverse audiences, or are navigating the challenges of remote learning or working from home – we offer a portfolio of online resources and experiences. "

  Tags: climate change, climate action, online, resources, interactive, sustainability, collaboration, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/30/2020

• Home - The MetaCurrency Project

  We are building the technological tools and social patterns and practices to enable the next economy — one that is distributed, equitable, and regenerative.

  Tags: economy, social equity, patterns, regenerative, economics, technology, currency

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• The way to modern direct democracy in Switzerland | Swiss History

  "When it comes to political co-determination by citizens, Switzerland is the undisputed world champion. More than one third of all referendums ever held at national level worldwide have taken place in Switzerland. The historical origins of direct democracy in Switzerland are just as interesting as the continuing topical nature of citizens' rights themselves. We provide below an overview. "

  Tags: article, democracy, co-determination, direct democracy, participatory democracy, deliberative democracy, citizen governance, governance, community empowerment, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Bioregionalism (a definition)

  "A bioregion is defined in terms of the unique overall pattern of natural characteristics that are found in a specific place. The main features are generally found throughout a continuous geographic terrain and include a particular climate, local aspects of seasons, landforms, watersheds, soils, and native plants and animals."

  Tags: article, bioregion, geography, climate, patterns, regenerative, sustainability, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Sacred Headwaters

  Welcome to Sacred Headwaters, a bi-weekly newsletter that aims to guide a co-learning process about the existential issues and planetary limitations facing humanity and about how we can reorient civilization in a way that will enable us to thrive for centuries to come.

  Tags: article, co-learning, regeneration, climate change, climate action, sustainability, collaboration, community empowerment

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/28/2020

• Systemic Design Toolkit

  A few years ago, the need of tackling increasingly complex projects pushed Namahn and shiftN to collaborate on a Systemic Design toolkit. At the RSD5 symposium in Toronto (2016), the two partners presented the first version of the toolkit and assessed its fit for purpose during the conference workshop. Since then, the original authors have collaborated with Peter Jones (Systemic Design Association) and Alex Ryan (MaRS Discovery District) for continued development of the toolkit towards a mature version, ready for use.

  Tags: design, design thinking, system thinking, “systemic, design”, toolkit, innovation

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Symbiosis in Development (SiD) – Integrated Sustainability Development Framework

  SiD has been developed since 2001 as a toolkit to develop long term viable sustainable solutions for business, governments and industry. SiD guides individuals and interdisciplinary groups in incorporating problems beyond material and energy usage, extending to include social, ecological, economic, and political matters. If we ever hope to achieve sustainability, we must optimize for all of these competing areas at the same time – and this is what SiD does.

  Tags: symbiosis, development, sustainability, framework, toolkit

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/24/2020

• Learn how to use Gephi

  "Welcome to Gephi! Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analysing large networks graphs. Gephi uses a 3D render engine to display graphs in real-time and speed up the exploration. You can use it to explore, analyse, spatialise, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of graphs. "

  Tags: networks, social networking, visual data, visualization, technology, graph, techtools

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Open Collective - Make your community sustainable. Collect and spend money transparently.

  Create Collectives for different projects for easy budget tracking. No need for messy spreadsheets! Automatic monthly reports make accounting a breeze.

  Tags: crowdfunding, community, finance, transparency, open source, collaboration, community empowerment

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Home - Shareable

  New and resurgent solutions are democratizing how we produce, consume, govern, and solve social problems. The maker movement, collaborative consumption, the solidarity economy, open source software, transition towns, open government, and social enterprise are just a few of the movements showing a way forward based on sharing.

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, ecological, commons, economics, sustainability, collaboration, community empowerment, governance, maker movement, collaborative consumption, solidarity economy, open source software, transition towns, open government, social, enterprise

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Geoff Lawton ** Official Page ** Permaculture, PDC, Online Courses

  Tags: permaculture, Earth Regeneration, climate change, ecology, sustainability, conservation

• What is a land trust? | Wildlands Conservation

  "A land trust is a nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements.  Typically, land trusts have or have access to expertise in land acquisition, real estate law, and land management.  This blend of expertise allows the land trust to assist the land owner, municipality, agency, or whoever, in identifying the most suitable mechanism for protection."

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, nonprofit, conservation, stewardship, land, sustainability, land trust

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Polinode

  Collect Visualize Analyze Connected Data

  Tags: networks, open networks, social networking, techtools, visualization, visual data, innovation, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Introducing the Polinode Exporter Plugin for Gephi — Polinode - Powerful Organizational Network Analysis

  "Gephi"

  Tags: no_tag

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Complexity Explorer

  "Fractals are scale-free, in the sense that there is not a typical length or time scale that captures their features.  A tree, for example, is made up of branches, off of which are smaller branches, off of which are smaller branches, and so on.  Fractals thus look similar, regardless of the scale at which they are viewed.  Fractals are often characterized by their dimension.  You will learn what it means to say that an object is 1.6 dimensional and how to calculate the dimension for different types of fractals."

  Tags: complexity, fractals, complexity science, Santa Fe Institute

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/23/2020

• Ecosystem Restoration Camps – Together, We Can Restore The Earth

  Ecosystem Restoration Camps Foundation is a Dutch non-profit foundation with hundreds of members from over 30 countries around the world, and we continue to grow. In 2017 we established Camp Altiplano, the first Ecosystem Restoration Camp in Spain, and now have a camp on every continent. Our aim is to open 100 camps by 2030.

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, ecological, restoration, ecosystem, sustainability, climate change

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/22/2020

• About — GeoffLawton Online

  The Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) is located on a Permaculture demonstration site in The Channon NSW, and is headed by Geoff & Nadia Lawton. We specialize in education & training worldwide. We also provide daily Permaculture news and information via permaculturenews.org. The Permaculture Research Institute is a not-for-profit organisation, limited by guarantee.

  Tags: permaculture, Earth Regeneration, climate change, ecology, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/20/2020

• Regenesis Group | Transforming the way humans inhabit the Earth

  Regenesis was founded in 1995 to bring together pioneering educators in the fields of permaculture and ecological design with thought leaders in the worlds of business planning and organizational development. The founders’ early mission was to transform the development industry into one that would contribute to, rather than undermine, the health of the planet. The Regenesis approach quickly attracted leaders in the emerging green building movement, who brought it to diverse project settings around the globe.

  Tags: Earth Regeneration, green, permaculture, ecological, organizational development, planning, business, regenerative, economic development

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Smartcitizenry

  A SmartCitizenry co-operative is for you and your neighbours, Everyone is local and what you do together is local. Together you work out what needs you have that together as a co-op you can solve. It could be energy needs, home help and support, waste management, recycling – whatever is important to you that you can’t do alone to get the impact and make the difference that is needed. Everything you do is building community one action at a time.

  Tags: collaborative, governance, trust, community empowerment, community building, co-op

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/19/2020

• On Sovereignty - Deep Code - Medium

  Sovereignty is the capacity to take responsibility. It is the ability to be present to the world and to respond to the world — rather than to be overwhelmed or merely reactive. Sovereignty is to be a conscious agent.

  Tags: sovereignty, ”deep, code”, GameB, collaboration, governance, article

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• What is the Adjacent Possible? - Martin Erlic - Medium

  The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself…

  Tags: GameB, platform, disruptive innovation, innovation, article

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• A Journey To GameB - Jim Rutt - Medium

  In this essay, I’m going to lay out a set of ideas about a long term path for GameB to become a civilization level social operating system.

  Tags: journey, GameB, ”operating, system”, social, social design, collaboration, community empowerment, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Welcome to SCiO | SCiO

  SCiO is a community of systems practitioners who believe that traditional approaches to running organisations are responsible for many of the problems we see today. We believe that systemic approaches to designing and running organisations offer radically new and better alternatives.

  Tags: system thinking, Viable, Systems, systems practice, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• The electronic oracle : computer models and social decisions : Meadows, Donella H : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

  The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

  Tags: oracle, computer, models, free download, internet, streaming, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• GameB A WT.Social SubWiki

  GsmeB wiki

  Tags: GameBe, wiki, social

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• EP26 Jordan Hall on the Game B Emergence - The Jim Rutt Show

  Tags: emergence, GameB, podcast

• TimeBanks USA

  Timebanking is a time-based currency. Give one hour of service to another, and receive one time credit. You can use the credits in turn to receive services — or you can donate them to others. An hour of service is always one time credit regardless of the nature of the service performed.

  Tags: Timebanking, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/12/2020

• It Takes Complexity to Perceive Complexity – Campus Co-Evolve

  We are living in the midst of humankind’s manifold crises, in a time of unprecedented change. Some call this era The Big Shift, Jump Time or The Great Transition. Out of the turbulence of this transformation, the world that will emerge will most likely be very different from what we know. Whether what unfolds will be for better or worse is up to us. Not up to us individually, but up to all of us who care for it.

  Tags: Warm Data, systems thinking, complexity, culture, evolution, co-evolve, complex adaptive systems

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/11/2020

• The REAL Story of Wealth Creation - Joe Brewer - Medium

  It is vital that we understand the physical nature of wealth so we can envision and build economic systems that are capable of (1) reducing chronic inequality in the world; (2) recognizing the inherent value of nature as a foundational building block for any economic system; and (3) exploring the ‘design space’ of all possible economic systems to find those best suited for planetary sustainability.

  Tags: wealth, creation, Earth Regeneration, inequality, economic, sustainability, article

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

  Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World is a book about a scientific economic solution rooted in a recognition of humanity’s interconnectedness; it offers a template that, if applied, could solve many of today’s social and economic issues at a root level.

  Tags: land, paradigm, economic, interconnectedness, sustainability, social

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• On the Commons

  On the Commons (OTC) is a commons movement strategy center founded in 2001. Through our efforts, we help: Build and bring visibility to the commons movement; Initiate and catalyze commons work; and, Develop and encourage commons leadership. We believe it is possible to foster a commons-based society, which refers to a shift away from our market-based system, through new, collaborative ways of working.

  Tags: commons, Ostrom, economic, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/08/2020

• Center for Applied Cultural Evolution

  The Center for Applied Cultural Evolution was created to help communities guide their own social change efforts using integrated social science tools and frameworks. Our mission is to launch a series of Culture Design Labs around systemic challenges ranging from poverty and inequality to climate change and more.

  Tags: culture, evolution, design, ecological, ecology, sustainability, climate change, Earth Regeneration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• A Reading List on Bioregional Design - Joe Brewer - Medium

  "This article is meant to serve as a living document where I will curate reading materials on bioregional design and add new links as I discover new content. It is done in preparation for a workshop on bioregional design that I plan to give later this spring. "

  Tags: biodiversity, bioregional, design, ecological, ecology, article, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• The Natural Selection of Bioregions - Joe Brewer - Medium

  "In a word, the future of humanity (if there is one) will need to be bioregional."

  Tags: biodiversity, bioregional, design, ecological, ecology, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Why Must We Design Our Bioregions? - Joe Brewer - Medium

  In the business world, there is an obsession with scaling. Investors repeatedly ask “How are you going to bring your idea to scale?” Environmentalists often ask a related question by seeking to change the minds of large audiences — by increasing awareness of ecological problems in the hope that this will lead to policy actions in the future.

  Tags: biodiversity, bioregional, design, scaling, ecological, ecology, change, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/07/2020

• Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons - Commons Transition

  "To promote the wider arguments in the book, Lewis and Conaty produced a series of very short articles. The following Special Report features their series on Community Land Trusts, Mutual Home Ownership, the Garden City Model and the Co-operative Land Bank. The Garden City Model merits special attention, as Garden Cities that took land out of the market were a full expression of radical socialist and co-operative economy planning. Nowadays, a number of parts of the world are showing an interest in reviving them."

  Tags: land trust, urban, Commons, reform

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition – Kosmos Journal

  Memes are to culture what genes are to biology: the base unit of evolution. The term was originally coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. Dawkins writes, “I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged . . . It is still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.” He goes on, “Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain, via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.”3

  Tags: memes, culture, biology, Capitalism, article, genes

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Using Design Thinking to Eradicate Poverty Creation

  "We need to ratchet up from targeted innovation and apply design-thinking principles to one of the biggest social issues of our time: global poverty itself. "

  Tags: article, design thinking, innovation, poverty, global

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• About - Contract for the Web

  "Now for the first time ever, we have a global plan of action — the Contract for the Web — created by experts and citizens from across the world to make sure our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone. We invite governments, companies, civil society organizations and individuals to back the Contract and uphold its principles and clauses. "

  Tags: web, Web2.0, online, governance, technology, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• How to Start a Community Land Trust - Shareable

  "The land trust movement in the United States has gained notoriety over the past 20 years mainly for its role in environmental conservation. Known as land conservancies, these non-profit organizations, such as the Nature Conservancy, acquire development rights or land in fee simple, in order to conserve natural resources by protecting land from development. "

  Tags: land trust, environmental, conservation, natural resources, Development

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/06/2020

• C-ROADS - Climate Interactive

  C-ROADS Pro is designed for technical users looking to analyze specific greenhouse gas emission reduction policies in various forms for up to 15 regions simultaneously. Available for download to Windows and Mac. Download C-ROADS Pro and watch C-ROADS Pro Video Tutorials to get started.

  Tags: climate change, evidence based, climate action, education, sustainability, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• The Economy Core online textbook

  Tags: economy, textbook

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Diigo Update 03/05/2020

• UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative - Facebook

  The CCI is an award-winning University Center that informs and supports evidence-based climate action.

  Tags: stewardship, ecosystems, climate change, sustainability, change, initiative, Facebook

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Climate Change Initiative - Climate Change Initiative

  The CCI is an award-winning University Center that informs and supports evidence-based climate action.

  Tags: climate change, evidence based, university, sustainability, climate, climate action, education, initiative, change

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 03/02/2020

• Appropedia

  Appropedia is the site to develop and share collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development through the use of sound principles and appropriate technology, original research and project information.

  Tags: collaborative, sustainability, collaboration, poverty, international, Development, research, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Macro to Micro: Introducing Eco-Social Matrix – Permaculture College Australia

  "ESM combines the conceptual systems thinking behind zonation, bioregionalism and social planning, as a simple yet powerful matrix for integrated design where the macro provides a practical and realistic context for the details." "

  Tags: bioregionalism, social planning, integrated design: design, systems, thinking, Development, permaculture

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• The Ecosystem Guild – Restoring Watersheds Through Community

  What if each community had the vision and tools to directly restore and steward their watershed? We are a regional volunteer cooperative that works in communities to study, protect and restore ecosystems, cultivating social systems capable of stewardship.

  Tags: stewardship, ecosystems, social systems, cooperative, restoration, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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