WiserEarth Suggestions

Problem: Attaining --and maintaining-- financial stability is very difficult for grassroots civic groups/projects; more generally, the world faces a Democracy Deficit. Our world, increasingly globalized, hightech, fast-paced, accelerating, faces unprecedented challenges from Climate Destabilization to Peak Oil; yet the internet has been underutilized as a means for facilitating bottom-up, decentralized, yet coordinated actions. Both principle and pragmatism argue in favor of harnessing the fuller pote...

Action: Thresholdware is software which allows citizens to coordinate intentions and actions on a mass scale. It works by securely and privately storing individual commitments, and then putting the aggregate of those individual commitments into coordinated action when a specific critical mass or threshold has been reached. These can include financial transactions, such as fundraising commitments, or "action transactions'" such as strike votes, product boycotts, civil disobedience, provisionally joini...

Problem: This solution tackles the question of legal juristiction in a multi-layered, community based social structure. How can you establish human rights on a global level while allowing individual communities to determine their own laws for food standards or noise levels?

Action: Within the structure of multi-layer democracy (http://www.standardsoflife.com/representation) there needs to be a way of handling the differences between different consitituencies within a layer and between layers. Variable Law is a legal construct that is best included in a constitution (http://www.standardsoflife.com/constitutional+Template) and provides ...