[p2p-research] global village economics

[Michel Bauwens]

an occasion to tell the RS crowd about it!

On 4/14/09, Marcin Jakubowski <joseph.dolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The critique of the proposal is that it's hot air, and many such proposals
> have been written, including ourselves if you read the skunkworks of our
> literature.
>
> The bottom line is simple: show me a business model.
>
> That's why we're developing the Global Village Construction Set, so that
> the barriers to entry of such communities can be lowered. I'd be interested
> in talking to the author if there's any evidence of operational/business
> plan.
>
> Marcin
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Vinay Gupta <hexayurt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.realitysandwich.com/ecocommunity_design_proposal#comment-19852
>>
>> I made a post over there which basically said "we're all talking and we
>> think this is a decent idea and we've done a lot of work on it already and
>> are willing to share."
>>
>>
>> We'll see how they react!
>>
>>
>> Vinay
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>>
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>>
>>  On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this is a very important call,
>>
>> so two associated requests:
>>
>> 1) I'm looking for a volunteer to reference this in our blog
>>
>> 2) anybody who could help in the project itself
>>
>> See:
>>
>> *Eco-Community Design: A Proposal*<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2579&qid=99939>
>> by Twist
>> A robust ecovillage design could be successfully marketed purely on an
>> economic basis, as a solid investment opportunity now and even more so every
>> year further down the road of oil depletion.
>> Read it here: http://www.realitysandwich.com/ecocommunity_design_proposal<http://www.realitysandwich.com/sites/realitysandwich.civicactions.net/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2579&qid=99939>
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>> year further down the road of oil depletion.
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> Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
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>
> Nobody said that building the world's first open source village would be
> easy.
>
> -- Anonymous, 2009
>
> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
> a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
> build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
> cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
> program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
> Specialization is for insects.
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> -- Robert A. Heinlein
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