Moral Economy Project Symposium and Outreach
Building a Whole Earth Economy
The Moral Economy Project (Quaker Institute for the Future) held a symposium in Montreal on May 15-16, 2009, to discuss issues of ecology and governance. The purpose of this WiserEarth group is to encourage follow-up discussion on questions and ideas arising from the symposium, to make symposium materials (papers and videos) available to attendees and others ...learn more
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Created: Oct 27, 2008
Updated: Oct 25, 2009
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Brainstorming the future. Embracing commonalities. Alternatives to violence in the emerging world culture.
What’s your point of view? The third round writing phase of the Global Assembly online dialog, a“Unity Round,” remains open for submissions until Monday, December 17, 10am PST.
This is a "unity" round, meaning that all participants together read and rate each other's messages to elect one message to represent their common humanity. Enter here.
About Global Assembly Dialog
The Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" in the creation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with authentic authority and power to construct a world that works for everyone.
“Going global” with this project is our initial stop to ensure that GAD builds the requisite number of international participants to justifiably present itself as truly reflective of the entire human race.
The Dialog, now entering its third round, uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by participants. Each round offers a selection of subjects to choose from. Writers select one topic and submit their response for rating by other members of the Assembly. The highest rated messages are published and distributed to members by email. For more information, see …
Second Round Results
Listed below is a top rated message from the second round.
Brainstorming the Future Ray Barnes - Independents
Western Industrial Civilization must dismantle the structures of industrial agriculture and re-appropriate the land for mass smallholdings. Using recent developments in organic growing and scientific insights into natural systems we can feed and employ all of the people even as we reduce demands on the natural world to an indefinitely sustainable level. The benefits are manifold. We will end resource wars by reducing our demand for oil and foreign food supplies. We will save dwindling oil reserves by not shipping food thousands of miles to our table or using petroleum as stock for pesticides and fertilizers. We will enhance our health by eating fresh, uncontaminated food grown locally. We can disaster proof our regions by growing and processing food locally. A family kitchen garden should go with each home instead of environmentally negative lawns. We can employ millions within walking distance of their homes, reducing oil use as well as pollution.
Full results for your Network are available online - click the "Results by Ratings" link in the menu on the left after you enter the Global Assembly site.
The elected messages from all the networks are available here.
Next Steps
This is a grassroots, bottom up process, whose success depends on viral marketing and the active promotion of the process by current participants. Currently, Global Assembly Dialog has almost 1000 group members.
We will soon publish an overview of our plans to expand the contributor base and move Global Assembly Dialog into the role of a vital player in the evolving network of international network collaborations. This plan of action will be available in a ‘wiki’ format to encourage your active participation in our policies.
Question or coment? Contact the dialog coordinator. Please include the words "Global Assembly" in the subject of your email.
December Event
Join Global Assembly Dialog as Eliabeth Kucinich addresses the Peace Sunday Festival and Exposition in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 9. We’ll be attending to publicize the Dialog and sign up new participants. See the Unity-and-Diversity website for details.
What’s your point of view? The third round writing phase of the Global Assembly online dialog, a“Unity Round,” remains open for submissions until Monday, December 17, 10am PST.
This is a "unity" round, meaning that all participants together read and rate each other's messages to elect one message to represent their common humanity. Enter here.
About Global Assembly Dialog
The Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" in the creation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with authentic authority and power to construct a world that works for everyone.
“Going global” with this project is our initial stop to ensure that GAD builds the requisite number of international participants to justifiably present itself as truly reflective of the entire human race.
The Dialog, now entering its third round, uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by participants. Each round offers a selection of subjects to choose from. Writers select one topic and submit their response for rating by other members of the Assembly. The highest rated messages are published and distributed to members by email. For more information, see …
Second Round Results
Listed below is a top rated message from the second round.
Brainstorming the Future Ray Barnes - Independents
Western Industrial Civilization must dismantle the structures of industrial agriculture and re-appropriate the land for mass smallholdings. Using recent developments in organic growing and scientific insights into natural systems we can feed and employ all of the people even as we reduce demands on the natural world to an indefinitely sustainable level. The benefits are manifold. We will end resource wars by reducing our demand for oil and foreign food supplies. We will save dwindling oil reserves by not shipping food thousands of miles to our table or using petroleum as stock for pesticides and fertilizers. We will enhance our health by eating fresh, uncontaminated food grown locally. We can disaster proof our regions by growing and processing food locally. A family kitchen garden should go with each home instead of environmentally negative lawns. We can employ millions within walking distance of their homes, reducing oil use as well as pollution.
Full results for your Network are available online - click the "Results by Ratings" link in the menu on the left after you enter the Global Assembly site.
The elected messages from all the networks are available here.
Next Steps
This is a grassroots, bottom up process, whose success depends on viral marketing and the active promotion of the process by current participants. Currently, Global Assembly Dialog has almost 1000 group members.
We will soon publish an overview of our plans to expand the contributor base and move Global Assembly Dialog into the role of a vital player in the evolving network of international network collaborations. This plan of action will be available in a ‘wiki’ format to encourage your active participation in our policies.
Question or coment? Contact the dialog coordinator. Please include the words "Global Assembly" in the subject of your email.
December Event
Join Global Assembly Dialog as Eliabeth Kucinich addresses the Peace Sunday Festival and Exposition in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 9. We’ll be attending to publicize the Dialog and sign up new participants. See the Unity-and-Diversity website for details.