Big Sur Powerdown

A co-created localized community

Big SurPowerdown is our community cooperating and communicating to address diminishing natural resources and climate change by applying strategies forrelocalizing our resources, reducing fossil fuel dependency and having fun while doing it. Our intent with Big Sur Powerdown is to educate the populace of Big Sur and ourselves about the long-term problems and ...learn more

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Created: Feb 21, 2008

Updated: Nov 02, 2009

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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 ...
Publisher: Standards of LIFE