Les 17 Règles pour une Economie Durable de Wendell Berry
1 - Pour chaque changement proposé, posez-vous toujours la question: quel en sera le résultat pour notre communauté ? Comment cela affectera-t-il notre richesse commune ?
2 – Incluez toujours l’environnement naturel local - la terre, l’eau, l’air, les êtres vivants - dans les membres de la communauté.
3 – Demandez-vous toujours comment les besoins locaux pourraient être satisfaits en priorité par des ressources locales, en incluant l’aide mutuelle des voisins.
Wendell Berry's 17 Rules For A Sustainable Economy
1. Always ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to our community? How will this affect our common wealth.
2. Always include local nature – the land, the water, the air, the native creatures – within the membership of the community.
3. Always ask how local needs might be supplied from local sources, including the mutual help of neighbors.
4. Always supply local needs first (and only then think of exporting products – first to nearby cities, then to others).
Report on the CommunityForge CC Strategy Retreat
John Rogers reports:
Eat, drink, tell stories, laugh, debate: all with one purpose – to redesign money.
Or at least to discover new possibilities for different kinds of monies. That was the goal of 20+ participants at Community Forge’s second annual ‘currency retreat’ at the Tiocan Eco-Centre high above Lake Geneva on the weekend of February 4th and 6th 2012:
A Joint Statement of Intent signed with Transition Geneva Region
A Joint Statement of Intent was signed today, December 5th, 2011 by :
Frapna Rhones-Alpes
Eco-attitude Geneva
Earthfocus Foundation
Community Forge's strategy advisor gives Ted talk on Currencies
Over 200 European media industry professionals learned about the importance of complementary currencies from Community Forge's advisor, Professor Jem Bendell, at a TEDx event in Rome. Organised by The European Broadcasting Union, TEDxTransmedia provided a platform for sharing ideas on how new media and broadcast media can interface to promote positive social change.
CSR Geneva invites CommunityForge to lead discussion on Money
Corporate Social Responsability Geneva invited CommunityForge to lead a discussion on money during it's Fortright Films series at AOM Solutions center in Geneva.
After the viewing of Money as Debt, participants discussed the effects of fractional reserve money and it's effects on people and planet.
The discussion then turned to examples of the creation of local currencies, and the positive effects they have on shifting the notion of value over to the sustainable balance between people and their environment.
Community Forge and Community Tools joint statement of intent
Community Forge and Community Tools are pleased to announce their intention to work together on a software platform to support the activities of real-world communities. We intend to build reusable software components and supply them to local governments and community groups who understand the profound need to build local infrastructure and organise at the local level.
19 Local French Economies enabled in a single day
At the annual summer National InterSEL camp in France, we held a one-day workshop and set up our free tool for 19 communities; training community leaders to manage their activities and accounts. Local Economies were set up in Paris, Lyon, Orléans, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Niort and others
Seminaire sur la reforme monétaire avec Pedro Paèz le 30 juin 15h
Jeudi 30 juin, 15h-18h Maison de l'Environnement, Chemin des Anémones, Genève (salle 3)
Séminaire sur les innovations monétaires pour promouvoir l'emploi et une économie soutenable, L'expérience de l'Equateur
Orateur : M. Pedro Paez, ancien ministre de la coordination économique de l'Equateur, membre de la Commission Stiglitz, et actuellement dirigeant la Commission présidentielle de l'Equateur pour une nouvelle architecture financière.
Seminar with Pedro Paèz on Monetary reform june 30, 15h
Seminar on monetary innovations for promoting jobs and sustainable development: the experience of Ecuador
Thursday 30 June, 3-6pm, Environment House, Chemin des Anémones, Geneva (room 3)
Lead speaker: Mr. Pedro Paez, former Minister of Economic Coordination, Ecuador, member of the Stiglitz Commission and currently head of Ecuador's Presidential Commission for a New Financial Architecture.
