WiserEarth Paris
Paris plus Sage
Un groupe Wiser Earth à Paris, avec pour objectifs (entre autres) de rassembler les membres locaux de la communauté WE, soutenir le développement du WE en français, créer un pôle européen pour le développement de WE, promouvoir les synergies locales etc. Ce groupe sera ce que nous en ferons, WE (nous) les parisiens, banlieusards et provinciaux du monde entie ...learn more
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Created: Nov 25, 2008
Updated: Nov 25, 2009
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Welcome to The Commons:
A wide open, world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. Seeking out and supporting new sustainability concepts for business, entrepreneurs, activists, community groups, and government; a thorn in the side of hesitant administrators, politicians and businessmen in denial; and through our joint efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just society.
The Commons is today a shared space on the Internet, that was first placed there in a then state of the art version in the late eighties with the intention of providing a wide open, world-wide, non-government forum which could serve as a working tool and assembly area for people and groups concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. The three central themes of all our exchanges and work here: the much needed move to sustainability, social justice, and the critical role of individual responsibility in the making of both.
Virtually all of the work of The Commons has thus far been carried out 'off the economy', with the support of the founders and a growing band of volunteers and users. We saw the whole venture then, and continue to see it now, as a modest step in the direction of creating new forms of citizen information, debate, consensus, action and, eventually, governance. The Commons is of course not alone in this ambitious struggle to find and put to work new forms of democracy and citizen action which make sense in this age of educated citizenry and an ever more knowledgeable society.
That said, please note that The Commons is not an "anti-market forum". To the contrary we retain the words of wisdom of Arthur Okun when he wrote some years ago: "Two cheers for the market, but not three!" You will see that theme time and again in these pages and programs. The market and its handmaiden technology are terrific, even indispensable tools for achieving our ambitious objectives for 21st century society. It's just that neither is not equipped to set these objectives. Which is where community, governance and citizen participation and action come in.
Our programs are on:
World CarShare
Value Capture Initiative
World Energy Futures
Children on the Move!
Policy & Practice
Women, leadership & sustainable development
A wide open, world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. Seeking out and supporting new sustainability concepts for business, entrepreneurs, activists, community groups, and government; a thorn in the side of hesitant administrators, politicians and businessmen in denial; and through our joint efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just society.
The Commons is today a shared space on the Internet, that was first placed there in a then state of the art version in the late eighties with the intention of providing a wide open, world-wide, non-government forum which could serve as a working tool and assembly area for people and groups concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. The three central themes of all our exchanges and work here: the much needed move to sustainability, social justice, and the critical role of individual responsibility in the making of both.
Virtually all of the work of The Commons has thus far been carried out 'off the economy', with the support of the founders and a growing band of volunteers and users. We saw the whole venture then, and continue to see it now, as a modest step in the direction of creating new forms of citizen information, debate, consensus, action and, eventually, governance. The Commons is of course not alone in this ambitious struggle to find and put to work new forms of democracy and citizen action which make sense in this age of educated citizenry and an ever more knowledgeable society.
That said, please note that The Commons is not an "anti-market forum". To the contrary we retain the words of wisdom of Arthur Okun when he wrote some years ago: "Two cheers for the market, but not three!" You will see that theme time and again in these pages and programs. The market and its handmaiden technology are terrific, even indispensable tools for achieving our ambitious objectives for 21st century society. It's just that neither is not equipped to set these objectives. Which is where community, governance and citizen participation and action come in.
Our programs are on:
World CarShare
Value Capture Initiative
World Energy Futures
Children on the Move!
Policy & Practice
Women, leadership & sustainable development
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Flag comment for removal rudrapattnaik 11 months ago
can know about non profit funding for our org
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