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"One of the things that we saw during the pilots, is that citizens realise how hard it is to build consensus and, furthermore, how hard it is to try to create a policy that fits all. How can this change democracy? It facilitates the understanding of how complex consensus, decision and policy-making are, how long it takes… | |||
'''Democracy cannot longer be a ‘thing’ that we do once every x amount of years.''' You get good at being democratic the more often you practice it. Civic technologies are organised around participation, therefore granting the opportunity to get more experience, to assess different points of view, to build arguments, to accept we don’t know everything. Moreover, a grass-roots collection of data creates a very different landscape and understanding of cities by the citizens, at the very least this is why we feel it is worth doing." Mara Balestrini <ref>[http://magazine.ouishare.net/2017/03/from-smart-cities-to-smart-citizens-when-technology-meets-activism/ magazine.ouishare.net]</ref> | |||
"[[Sustainable development]] is never going to materialise as a result of edicts from [[New York City|New York]] or [[Geneva]]. It needs to be constructed, shared and implemented in a truly global way that takes account of traditional, local and non-Western approaches." Steve Bass, senior fellow at the [[International Institute for Environment and Development]] and former chief environment advisor at the [[UK]] government's Department for International Development. | "[[Sustainable development]] is never going to materialise as a result of edicts from [[New York City|New York]] or [[Geneva]]. It needs to be constructed, shared and implemented in a truly global way that takes account of traditional, local and non-Western approaches." Steve Bass, senior fellow at the [[International Institute for Environment and Development]] and former chief environment advisor at the [[UK]] government's Department for International Development. | ||
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"When I thought of Dialogue in this larger sense, I had the image of the open central courtyard in an old-fashioned, Latin American home… you could enter the central courtyard by going around and through any of the multiple arched entryways that surrounded this open, flower-filled space in the middle of the house… For me, Dialogue is like entering this central courtyard in the spacious home of our common human experience." Juanita Brown | "When I thought of Dialogue in this larger sense, I had the image of the open central courtyard in an old-fashioned, Latin American home… you could enter the central courtyard by going around and through any of the multiple arched entryways that surrounded this open, flower-filled space in the middle of the house… For me, Dialogue is like entering this central courtyard in the spacious home of our common human experience." Juanita Brown | ||
"The real work of creating a different world is to take responsibility upon ourselves to lead that change to create the sort of world we want." Grace Lee Boggs <ref>[http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/saying-goodbye-to-grace-lee-boggs-20151006 YES! Magazine]</ref> | |||
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"I have no illusions that we can simply declare a Law for the Commons. The very idea and its variations must first be formulated for our modern context, and then fought for. But at a time when existing regimes of law and governance are in a shambles – losing public respect, failing to meet people’s basic needs, destroying the Earth – I believe that commoning and laws to enable it have a bright future. Commons can meet people’s needs in fair, open and effective ways, and provide a dignity, respect and equality that the market/state order has trouble achieving. By cultivating more direct engagement with people, and demanding that they step up to responsibilities, commons also have great promise in improving ecological stewardship." David Bollier <ref>[http://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-09-15/who-may-use-the-king-s-forest-the-meaning-of-magna-carta-commons-and-law-in-our-time resilience.org] September 15, 2015 </ref> | |||
"Commoning is a radical concept because it insists upon the active, knowing participation of people in shaping their own lives and meeting their own needs." David Bollier and Silke Helfrich <ref>[http://patternsofcommoning.org/overture/ Patterns of Commoning]</ref> | |||
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:"The ‘Web of Life’ is, of course, an ancient idea, which has been used by poets, philosophers, and mystics throughout the ages to convey their sense of the interwovenness and interdependence of all phenomena." | :"The ‘Web of Life’ is, of course, an ancient idea, which has been used by poets, philosophers, and mystics throughout the ages to convey their sense of the interwovenness and interdependence of all phenomena." | ||
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Fritjof Capra | Fritjof Capra | ||
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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." | |||
- R. Carson 'Silent Spring' | |||
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:"The global city is not [[London]], [[New York City|New York]], [[Tokyo]] or [[Johannesburg|Jo'berg]] -- it is the part of each which is connected to an analogous part in each of the others. The global city is a distributed phenomenon. There is only one global city, and it floats on top of the others like lace." | :"The global city is not [[London]], [[New York City|New York]], [[Tokyo]] or [[Johannesburg|Jo'berg]] -- it is the part of each which is connected to an analogous part in each of the others. The global city is a distributed phenomenon. There is only one global city, and it floats on top of the others like lace." | ||
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"We’re all very much aware that there are millions of young people who are unemployed, particularly in high–risk countries across the world, who form the majority of the population, and haven’t got a remote chance of ever getting a job. <br>I work on these issues with the Youth Employment Network of the [[United Nations]]. We know that one of the things that must be done urgently is to remove the economic, legal and regulatory impediments that many governments and societies impose on their own young people. <br>Angry young people without [[Opportunities for all|opportunities]] are good candidates for extremist and simplistic arguments." <br>Maria Cattaui | "We’re all very much aware that there are millions of young people who are unemployed, particularly in high–risk countries across the world, who form the majority of the population, and haven’t got a remote chance of ever getting a job. <br>I work on these issues with the Youth Employment Network of the [[United Nations]]. We know that one of the things that must be done urgently is to remove the economic, legal and regulatory impediments that many governments and societies impose on their own young people. <br>Angry young people without [[Opportunities for all|opportunities]] are good candidates for extremist and simplistic arguments." <br>Maria Cattaui | ||
“Planning automobile cities focuses on saving time. Planning accessible cities focuses on time well spent” — R Cervero | |||
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"Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! [[Climate change|Climate warming]] is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it." French President Jacques Chirac, August, 2002 | "Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! [[Climate change|Climate warming]] is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it." French President Jacques Chirac, August, 2002 | ||
"We need places where we sit on the edges of the public realm and look in the mirror, to be reminded of who we really are." Chuck <ref>[http://www.myurbanist.com/archives/7039 confronting the urban mirror], August 27, 2011</ref> / [[Urban sustainability]] | |||
"The idea that the American model of liberal capitalism offers the widest scope for individual opportunity is the great ideological hoax of our times." David Clark | "The idea that the American model of liberal capitalism offers the widest scope for individual opportunity is the great ideological hoax of our times." David Clark | ||
“I would like more than anything to have our own space in the community, because we always have to be looking for places to run our programs. I want to run them every day.” <br> | |||
Gloria Concepcion <ref>[https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/el-amor-de-la-comunidad/ transitionnetwork.org]</ref> / [[Chicago]], [[Community resources]] | |||
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"I thought there would be failure modes, but I wasn't surprised that communities found ways around them. I thought it was important that when the organization proved to be wrong, people could reorganize on their own, that organization could emerge." Ward Cunningham {{W|Ward Cunningham}}, the inventor of the Wiki-wiki Web | "Only when the last [[Trees, woodland and forest|tree]] has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." Cree Indian Proverb | ||
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:"I thought there would be failure modes, but I wasn't surprised that communities found ways around them. I thought it was important that when the organization proved to be wrong, people could reorganize on their own, that organization could emerge." | |||
:"It's a form of brainstorming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," | |||
Ward Cunningham {{W|Ward Cunningham}}, the inventor of the Wiki-wiki Web | |||
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"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse." ~ Herman E. Daly | |||
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:"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." | |||
:"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns." | |||
:"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists." | |||
Edward de Bono | |||
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"We cannot solve global problems using half of the world's brain power." Monika Devikka | |||
"Sometimes, even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be mad, a man must set an example, and so draw people's souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea does not die." Dostoyevsky <ref>'The Brothers Karamazov'</ref> | "Sometimes, even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be mad, a man must set an example, and so draw people's souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea does not die." Dostoyevsky <ref>'The Brothers Karamazov'</ref> | ||
"Aleida Arzeta dreams of a community center that would also function as a café and bakery, and a place where families could share social and emotional support. | |||
Aleida, Gloria and I fantasize about the community center of their dreams. They envision a comprehensive center with education, business, social and health supports all in one – not a place where “experts” would provide “services” to people in need, but a place where real people would support each other, because we are all experts in something, and we all have needs." Kate Duva <ref>[https://transitionnetwork.org/news-and-blog/el-amor-de-la-comunidad/ transitionnetwork.org]</ref> / [[Chicago]], [[Community resources]] | |||
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"Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve [[sustainability]], the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life." Earth Charter | "Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve [[sustainability]], the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life." Earth Charter | ||
A network entrepreneur understands that social change lives beyond any single organization, Nell Edgington <ref>[http://www.socialvelocity.net/2015/10/the-network-approach-to-social-change/ Social Velocity]</ref> | |||
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[[File:Albert Einstein Head.jpg|100px|left]] | |||
:“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.” | |||
:"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." | |||
:"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in it's beauty." | |||
:"For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." | |||
:"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field." <ref> Charter member, AFT - American Federation of Teachers, Princeton, New Jersey, [[USA]] 1938 </ref> | |||
Albert Einstein <ref>Albert Einstein on [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein wikiquote]</ref> | |||
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"The new media are orientated towards action, not contemplation; towards the present, not tradition. It is wrong to regard media equipment as mere means of consumption." Hans Magnus Enzensberger | "The new media are orientated towards action, not contemplation; towards the present, not tradition. It is wrong to regard media equipment as mere means of consumption." Hans Magnus Enzensberger | ||
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes | |||
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"¡La semana no se te hace cuesta arriba si vas en bicicleta!" #FelizLunes <ref>[https://twitter.com/hashtag/FelizLunes?src=hash #FelizLunes]</ref> | |||
"In technology reality must take precedence over public relations, because nature won’t be fooled" Richard Feynmann | "In technology reality must take precedence over public relations, because nature won’t be fooled" Richard Feynmann |
Revision as of 17:17, 3 October 2017
A"To Save the Children, sustainable development means that each generation should leave to its children a world at least as diverse and productive as the one it inherited. It also means guaranteeing the rights of all today's children, so that they can fulfil their potential in the struggle for development. The millions of children still denied their basic rights as a result of poverty, violence or environmental degradation testify to the international community's failure to make this vision a reality." Mike Aaronson
B"One of the things that we saw during the pilots, is that citizens realise how hard it is to build consensus and, furthermore, how hard it is to try to create a policy that fits all. How can this change democracy? It facilitates the understanding of how complex consensus, decision and policy-making are, how long it takes… Democracy cannot longer be a ‘thing’ that we do once every x amount of years. You get good at being democratic the more often you practice it. Civic technologies are organised around participation, therefore granting the opportunity to get more experience, to assess different points of view, to build arguments, to accept we don’t know everything. Moreover, a grass-roots collection of data creates a very different landscape and understanding of cities by the citizens, at the very least this is why we feel it is worth doing." Mara Balestrini [2]
"I have no illusions that we can simply declare a Law for the Commons. The very idea and its variations must first be formulated for our modern context, and then fought for. But at a time when existing regimes of law and governance are in a shambles – losing public respect, failing to meet people’s basic needs, destroying the Earth – I believe that commoning and laws to enable it have a bright future. Commons can meet people’s needs in fair, open and effective ways, and provide a dignity, respect and equality that the market/state order has trouble achieving. By cultivating more direct engagement with people, and demanding that they step up to responsibilities, commons also have great promise in improving ecological stewardship." David Bollier [4]
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Manuel Castells
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D"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse." ~ Herman E. Daly
Edward de Bono
Aleida, Gloria and I fantasize about the community center of their dreams. They envision a comprehensive center with education, business, social and health supports all in one – not a place where “experts” would provide “services” to people in need, but a place where real people would support each other, because we are all experts in something, and we all have needs." Kate Duva [9] / Chicago, Community resources E"Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life." Earth Charter
Albert Einstein [12]
F"¡La semana no se te hace cuesta arriba si vas en bicicleta!" #FelizLunes [13]
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References
Template:Attrib sca ref
- ↑ World Watch Magazine, September/ October 2004
- ↑ magazine.ouishare.net
- ↑ YES! Magazine
- ↑ resilience.org September 15, 2015
- ↑ Patterns of Commoning
- ↑ confronting the urban mirror, August 27, 2011
- ↑ transitionnetwork.org
- ↑ 'The Brothers Karamazov'
- ↑ transitionnetwork.org
- ↑ Social Velocity
- ↑ Charter member, AFT - American Federation of Teachers, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 1938
- ↑ Albert Einstein on wikiquote
- ↑ #FelizLunes
- ↑ pResilience, April 7, 2009