Posted on January 27 by Josef
Tags: Commons, Economics, Housing, Land, Money, Organisation, Permaculture, Projects, Sharing Economy, Update | 1 comment
Yesterday I had the most amazing and inspiring phone call ever.
A man called Ray called me from Cornwall, 2km from where Oli was already but totally randomly literally on his way to (thanks to Katharine), and basically said that he wants to entrust his land to a community very much like the commons creation collective - i.e. one with shared values (create a whole new economic system based on new land ownership and monetary systems etc.) he can grow to trust and love.
He’s got an 1.5 acre and is about to buy another acre. He wants to build sustainable housing and stuff. His partner runs a theatre company and they are both really into open space technology (self-organised meeting/conferences) and new forms of organisation.
I’ve just had another long conversation with him (we spoke for 2 hours before, and about another hour or so just now) and its seems that we may well try to have a what I call a “Building Man” festival on the land this summer (open space, build, celebrate)
Oli is going to make contact and hopefully go visit the land. It sounds very beautiful, near the sea and relatively high up with sea views and access to a lake (that they share with the quarry on the other side).
They’ve already got a load of waste materials from the quarry, enough to build a few cob/straw type structures.
Looks very like we could be off to a flying start!
To the Commons!
See also:
Posted on January 17 by Josef
Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Co-operation, Co-ops, Commons, Commons Creation, Ecovillage, Energy, Events, Food, Housing, Land, Media, Money, Organisation, Projects, Sharing Economy, Update | 1 comment
The first Commons Creation meeting took place on Sunday 21st January:
So far I’ve got some great groups signed up to the collective:
Peace Not War: http://peace.fm
The Synergy Project: http://thesynergyproject.org
OneTaste: http://onetaste.co.uk
Movimientos: http://www.movimientos.org.uk/ (site down!) they bring together all the Latin America solidarity groups and do regular monthly events with film and music.
This is just the beginning, but together these groups already regularly connect with 1000s of people. And they have all agreed to promote the Commons Creation project on all their flyers, mailouts and websites, and to offer special offers to members to the collective.
All these people collaborating to pools funds to buy land and build share infrastructure (The Fund) and working together as a marketing and media collective (The Flyer) is going to be a very powerful and exciting project (to learn more read through the background information ). Together We Have Everything
UPDATE: A copy of the presentation given can be downloaded here as a PDF (1.1Mb), PPT (2.4Mb) (PowerPoint), or ODP (2.3Mb) (OpenOffice.org Impress) file. Enjoy! 
If you’re already sold on the idea and up for committing £5 a month from February onwards, please set up a standing order and join the list.
Commons Creation list:
https://lists.open.coop/mailman/listinfo/commons
Bank Account details:
name: uniteddiversity LLP
sort code: 09-06-66
account: 40375992:
If you still need convincing, check out the presentation or comment with your proposals!
Commons Creation: PDF (1.1Mb), PPT (2.4Mb) (PowerPoint), or ODP (2.3Mb) (OpenOffice.org Impress) file. Enjoy!
See also:
