Cascadia Portal
Where organizations in Cascadia find synergies
There are a myriad organizations and individuals in the region of the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific North West, the Land of the Salmon, that work for the common good. This Cascadia Portal is a place for coming together to look for and achieve what can be done together that cannot be achieved alone. ...learn more
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Created: Sep 28, 2007
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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Updated: 2 months ago
Help the Homeless
Green relief for urban refugees
Green relief for urban refugees
Problem: Whatever the reason people become homeless, we* all become penniless,
cold, hot, hungry, confused, stressed, lonely and miserable. Homeless
shelters are mostly breeding grounds of despair. Some people that
purport to be helping the homeless are exploiting or judging them instead. Many
over-churched folks think they can "earn points" or smooth out their "Karma" by
reducing their stockpiles of worn and out-of-fashion clothing or
donating canned goods and stale baloney sandwiches to a local miss...
Action: So much needs to be done to understand the true nature of homelessness. A subjective look at the problem can be enlightening. Empirical data can be gleaned from close honest contact with urban refugees. Building dialog is of core significance in the following plan of action. A surprising number of homeless people you'll meet are intelligent, articulate, willing to work, and creative, which is profoundly contrary to media-formed belief. Some apparently homeless people have college degrees and ...
Action: So much needs to be done to understand the true nature of homelessness. A subjective look at the problem can be enlightening. Empirical data can be gleaned from close honest contact with urban refugees. Building dialog is of core significance in the following plan of action. A surprising number of homeless people you'll meet are intelligent, articulate, willing to work, and creative, which is profoundly contrary to media-formed belief. Some apparently homeless people have college degrees and ...
Publisher:
Brandon Wick
Updated: 3 months ago
Common Good Banks™
democratic economics for a sustainable world
democratic economics for a sustainable world
Problem: BRIEF: Concentration of wealth, corporate domination, war, poverty, hunger, environmental devastation.
From Website:
Common good banks are designed to save the world from corporate domination and give control back to the people.
Here's how (follow links for details):
Establish community-based democratic economic systems, as a seed for the world of our dreams
Community Division, a nearly independent local common good bank,
with investment priorities and distribution of...
Publisher:
Common Good Finance
Updated: 4 months ago
Problem: The problem is the inequality
Action: To have a society based on CP Socialism people must first be informed about this form of societal structure, so it will be widely known and accepted. Secondly the best way of implementing it is by the democratic process with all the four fundamental laws implemented immediately, if not simultaneously then right after each other.
Action: To have a society based on CP Socialism people must first be informed about this form of societal structure, so it will be widely known and accepted. Secondly the best way of implementing it is by the democratic process with all the four fundamental laws implemented immediately, if not simultaneously then right after each other.
Updated: 12 months ago
Integrated BASE/Tax
Social security linked taxation system
Social security linked taxation system
Problem: Creating an integrated taxation and social security system that guides the invisible hand of the market to help everyone.
Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society. In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...
Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society. In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...
Publisher:
Standards of LIFE