Commons Governance Work Group

Our Mission:   We seek to assist in the creation of an integral model of co-governance that can be applied both within existing and emergent commons in various developmental stages and contexts.     The Commons Defined: We understand the commons to be a sphere of life that is distinct, both from the public sphere of government provision and distribution, a ...learn more

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Created: Dec 31, 2008
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Robert Pollard

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Address: 203 West 107th Street
New York, New York 10025-3025
United States
 
Phone: 212.864.3156
 
I Speak: English, a little French
 
I Am: Activist, Administrator, Artist, Community Organizer, Designer, Educator, Networker, Parent, Researcher, Scientist, Student, Technologist, Other
 
Member Since: December 31, 2008
 
Local Time: Sat Nov 28 02:43:24
 

Areas of Focus 

Composting (2169 people)  |  Ecological Economics (2351 people)  |  Communication Training (1736 people)  |  Community Participation (3637 people)  |  Culture and Sustainability (2705 people)  |  Soil Ecology (781 people)  |  Access To Education (2290 people)  |  Environmental Education (3387 people)  |  Green Schools (2369 people)  |  Sustainability Education (4208 people)  |  Energy Efficiency and Conservation (2440 people)  |  Renewable Energy (3926 people)  |  Local Food Systems (2860 people)  |  Climate Change (4730 people)  |  Consumption and Green Consumers (2200 people)  |  Recycling and Reuse (2590 people)  |  Alternative Medicine (2846 people)  |  Human Rights Education (1034 people)  |  Indigenous Peoples and Cultures (2794 people)  |  Land Trusts and Land Conservation (676 people)  |  Precautionary Principle (459 people)  |  Prison Reform and Policy (424 people)  |  Conflict Resolution (1849 people)  |  Peace and Peace Building (3170 people)  |  Religion and Ecology (1198 people)  |  Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues (2675 people)  |  Sustainable Living (3476 people)  |  EcoVillages (2799 people)  |  Urban Ecology (1649 people)  |  Sustainable Transportation (1697 people)  |  Green Roofs (1593 people)  |  Information and Communication Technology (1771 people)  |  Water and Sustainable Development (1912 people)  

About

I am Founder and Professor of Information Ecology at Information Habitat: Where Information Lives, an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, Chair of the Information and Communications Sub-Committee of the NGO Committee on Education of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations.

 

I am also a Board member of La Perla Garden, a GreenThumb Community Garden in New York's Upper West Side that is part of the Manhattan Land Trust, and where composting is at the heart of my participation in the garden, and helps to keep me grounded

 

For the past 20 years - since the early stages of preparation for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro - my principal focus has been on facilitating and promoting the systematic use of information and communications technology in support of broad-based participation of non-governmental organizations in the work of the UN relating to sustainability, peace and justice, beginning with preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

 

For the past 12 years, my emphasis has increasingly been on an evolving holistic science of information ecology, and the remarkable global transition to a universe of shared knowledge - a universe in which scarcity is not constrained by the laws of conservation of mass and energy, nor by consideration of time, distance and cartesian geometry.

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