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*[[Democracy Proposals Log]]
*[[Democracy Proposals Log]]
=Operations=
The essence of operation is responsibility to a baseline level of production and improvement of the square mile facility. Training is required for such productivity, and especially training in collaborative literacy based on an understanding of product ecosystems and natural ecosystems. Such that ecological integrity improves with time, and prosperity improves - as a point of light that demonstrates paradise. Extreme productivity, with zero waste - is the key to the low work requirement so people gain self-determination. This is not free or easy - it requires learning - and as stated up front - a high level of responsibility. But once skills are learned, the basic social contract is one of stewardship of the facility, its land, its tool library - for ready startup of any enterprise. The only requirement is regeneration - leaving the place better than one found it.
Participants gain the benefit of an accessible equipment infrastructure - a community tool library that is an enterprise run by one of the members. This tool infrastructure is broad, open source, and a construction set. It can readily be combined into a productive enterprise of any type, in any industry. By focusing on eco-industrial processes instead of dirty ones, we maintain ecological integrity while doing so on a small scale. This is done via circular material flows as the essence of eco-industrial design.
Infrastructure (buildings, terraforming, roads) must be produced regeneratively, and in collaboration with other team members. The whole village is a team. Any destruction must be matched by equivalent or greater production. For example, the farmer must improve soil quality with time, collaborating and negotiating with others as needed for win-win situations. How do you for example maintain a lawn if before there was rich prairie? One route is to plant a prairie, or do set up an increasingly diverse area (such as perennial polyculture food forest, enhanced natural area, biotope, etc) in another area. How to make up for construction? By planting more trees if trees were used for lumber, according to time scales of interest. For example, one can assume a 10 year time scale for forestry, with a house lasting at least that long and a tree scape coming back with improved diversity on at the very least that time scale. Any debit on environmental integrity or quality of life must be matched with an equivalent or greater  credit. Terraforming for improved biological productivity is a great solution here, as is planting trees.
For each area of endeavor, there is a regeneration plan to match. Any number of trees taken down must be matched or exceeded with trees planted or landscape improved, with generally accepted, science-based ratios. Or, underground soil-food web enhanced, for example with the equivalent addition of biomass underground for fungi to grow. If materials are depleted, they must be restored. People, animals, and nature must be considered.
All energy installed must be renewable, with means for energy storage considered. For example, for winter heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal, or wind power may be used for mass heat storage that lasts for a few days.
Key enterprises include housing, transportation (cars, engines, bikes, hydrogen), and food. Public infrastructure includes a learning center much like a multimedia library, augmented with enhanced hands-on training bays. This infrastructure can also be used to run workshops for the public.
An onsite microfactory can produce most consumer goods and power tools such as found on Amazon, and is both a membership, prosumer, and consumer product operation. It can be used for extreme manufacturing workshops, where people build durable goods to take home with them, such as cars, refrigerators, or manufacturing tools. All of this relies on open source technology to provide the necessary design.
On the more advanced side, there is material production. This includes steel from scrap, concrete from local rock, glass from sand, plastic from waste, hydrogen from water, and silicon from sand. This addresses critical needs for construction, fuel, energy, and consumer products.
But all this still happens at the 1/4 time effort - where the rest is completely based on self-determination.


=Relevant Statistics=
=Relevant Statistics=

Revision as of 02:47, 25 November 2024

History and How-to

See Periclean Athens

Lessons from Orban on How to Destroy Democracy

OSE Proposal for Democracy

Relevant Statistics

  • About 750k professors and faculty in the USA [1]

Fukuyama

  • It appears Fukuyama forgot that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants in his book, The End of History. He's got a sequel. [2]. See Critique of Liberalism.

Books

Media

  • Digital world order threatens democracy. In 1990, USA was the leading exporter of democracy. In 2024 - US is the leading exporter of potentially non-democratic technology. Hear more at [4].

Links

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