On this page, you can download the current overview on the Global Commons Initiative. Feel free to improve the brochure.

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Thomas Schauer - European Support Centre The Club of Rome

Könnte man überlegen, ob man nicht eine positivere Formulierung für die Veranstaltung wählt wie "Which world do we create for our children" ?
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vielleicht die vielen Hände von der Seite kommen lassen, die wirken so bettelnd. Von der Seite könnte es lustiger aussehen.

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Begriffe in einem einzigen Absatz: monster, turbo capitalism, casino capitalism, human egoism and greed
der "Feind" ist doch sowieso schon fast tot. An sich selbst zugrunde gegangen. Die Wirkung weiterer Agressionen ist daher gering, ich würde vorschlagen, das gemäßigter zu formulieren und 2 der viere rauszunehmen.
are far removed: das klingt so als ob sie jemand weg schiebt

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Political representatives are acting just as short-sighted as their colleagues in the stock exchange rather than acting intelligently.
So extrem ist es nicht, es gibt auch ein paar gute Politiker und immerhin haben auch die schlechten einen 4-Jahres Horizont - verglichen mit dem Quartalshorizont der Aktionäre
In the near future citizens must accept global contracts that are agreed upon by the different cultures and religions, and which would impose upon them only a short-term material consequence. --> ist mir nicht ganz klar

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Start a Google Map --> ist Schleichwerbung

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2012 Convention on the Global Commons / World Summit on Global Commons --> Zeitpunkt ist sehr optimistisch

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An open global dialogue between civil society, economic, political, media, science and religious sectors should include experts and leaders who specialize in the environment, development, international trade, international finance systems, global governance, spirituality, et al. on the one hand and citizens on the other. --> Die Leaders sind aber auch citizens, das sind keine komplementäre Mengen

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vielleicht wäre der Begriff awareness besser als spirituality. letzterere wird zu Haufe von esoterischen initiativen gebraucht.
Humanity is entering upon a new phase of its spiritual evolution. --> Beweise? Was ist spiritual evolution genau?

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CO ist die Abkürzung für Kohlenmonoxid, das ist auch noch giftig ! --> 3CO sind vielleicht noch giftiger

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die 2 bei co2 muss subscript sein, nicht superscript

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Bitte "European Support Centre" neben das Club of Rome logo schreiben

viele Grüße, Thomas


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Michael Sussmann - OnTrack America

Fritjof,

Very pleased to see the progress. I am reading the brochure and am quite proud to be related to you and this work. The link below is for a 700 word communication I sent yesterday to our proprietary database of 6000 leaders in North American transportation industry and government. An easy read. It speaks to the principles of collaboration and collective intelligence for rail transportation planning. I'd be very happy to have all of you read it and look forward to your responses if you so choose to do so.
http://ontrackamerica.org/blog/ota-administrator/move-beyond-competition

Best regards,
Michael


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Marilyn Mehlmann - Global Action Plan International

In the section at the end, you've chopped our logo in half. It would be nice to have it reinstated. By copy of this I'm asking Alexander to send you a complete one (stacked).


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Cecilia Kibare - UNEP

Dear Frithjof,

Thanks for the invitation to Salzburg meeting, Theo will respond to this when he returns. I have copied Wondwosen of the Regional Office for Europe on this matter.

Here are some comments on the attached write-up:
-Title: could we use we leave instead of we create?

-003:Learn from crisis section is pretty heavy - make it easily understandable for young people as well since this is a project that addresses their needs

-005:A better world: Political representatives are acting just as.... (this sentence might not be appropriate for your document - you could restructure it)

-Could we have more pic of young people in action?

-007: give more details of the salzburg conference - how many participants from how many countries i.e. is it a regional initiative or only for Germany? try to link it up with the Copenhagen meeting on climate change. try to link it to the Tunza conferences in korea, indicate objectives - maybe 4 strong points.

-009:coalition for the global commons - you refer to march 2009 - should it be 2008? since its in past tense?

-013: give month for the tree planting - how many trees to be planted in Berlin/ could link this with unep's billion tree campaign

-if the Tunza -conference programme allows , it would be nice for you to run a session on the Salzburg conference to inform participants on what its about - maybe in the regional meeting. we will need to review how we can link this initiative to copenhagen. FYI Korea will host both the children and youth conferences from 17-21 (children) and 21-26 youth conference and regional meetings.

-018: mention environmental aspects here

-There are a few typos and edits which am sure you will review

thanks, Cecilia Kibare

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Peggy Duvette, Wiser Earth

What a wonderful brochure, I feel proud to be part of such initiatives, it is coming together.
Thanks for holding your leadership role and making it happen.

Best,
Peggy

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Chico Whitaker, World Social Forum

Dear all, excuse me my silence. Overloaded with work. But I think this can interest you: a Manifest about Commons that will be proposed for discussion in one workshop of the World Social Forum, next week. Some organisations are considering to sign the last version. I will give you more news later. All the best, Chico Whitaker
 
PS. Il will put the english version in this mail, as it seems that my outlook program will not forward the attached (with french, portuguese and spanish versions). CW.
 
Manifest for the recovery of common goods of humanity – Proposal for discussion

The enclosure movement in England during the 15th and 16th centuries limited the access to land and its benefits to its owners, thus making it inaccessible to the public as it had been traditionally. This initiated the process of the privatization of common human necessities. Subsequently, the world was ruled under the logic of the capitalistic system of production, in which everything can be transformed into money, and industrialization engendered mass production. The process of privatization, linked to an unrestrained mercantilization, aggravated greed and competition.

As a result, nowadays, the human civilization is in crisis ; one that could inevitably lead to the destruction of the human species on Earth. With the endurance of the most aggressive aspects of modern societies: the growth of social inequalities, consumeristic frenzy, destruction of nature, militarization of international affairs, the confiscation of public power by the market and productivism, the violent appropriation of the natural resources, and  democracy retrogress 

On one hand, in the schizophrenia of our times, the production of arms is an endless source of profits; destructing the environment is how  economic growth is attained;  the pharmaceutical industry obtains astronomical gains by only making their products available to those who can afford to pay their exorbitant prices; the control of the production and selling of seeds is death to small farms because of the debt they incur; The creation of money as an instrument to make exchanges easier is privatized by banks that, even when showed as the heart of a casino economy, speculative and unlinked to the real economy, are reinforce by governmental medicines to the running financial crises.

On the other hand, the knowledge that would allow parcels of the population the access to  solutions for their problems is not made widely; the preservation of the forest, necessary to the continuity of life on the planet, is considered an obstacle to progress; scientific research has not served in the struggle against endemic diseases that decimate entire populations; discoveries and useful advancements to human development become inaccessible, protected by blindly defended patents and author's rights; large agricultural productions with unknown environment effects spread throughout the earth to supply enough fuel to keep the wealthy minority at their standard of living.

The World Social Forum of 2009, at Belem – Pará, Brazil, is happening at a very special moment in time. It is a time when neo-liberal globalization, boosted by financial movements, unfettered by public control and legitimized by the ideology of the free market fails spectacularly.

The moment is also very special because simultaneously, the whole world is emerging into a new consciousness built on the premise that there are resources that under no circumstances could be privatizatized and mercantilized, by the fact that they are common goods and should be available to all human beings and nature itself.

The undersigned of the present Manifest, released in the World Social Forum of 2009, call all citizens of the world and their organizations to engage in the struggle for the deprivatization and demercantilization of these goods, as a flag raised by all of Humanity.

Everyone in their various locations and on their respective battle grounds, must assume the spirit of cooperation,which is essential to human life, and mobilize themselves in order to :
·      amplify and nurture the new consciousness that is emerging;
·      offer support towards the efforts of the organizations that launch themselves to the defense of rivers, land, seeds, knowledge, science, forests, seas, wind, communication and intercommunication, culture, music and other forms of art, public services such as education, health, sanitation, money, ancestral wisdom;
·      fortify the endeavors of their own organizations, mutually reinforcing themselves, in the campaigns and initiatives proposed and developed towards these objectives.
The undersigned of this Manifest pledge to exhaustively act to recover, for the common use of their fellow human beings, in co-responsibility and under social control, all of the goods and services necessary for life.

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Jascha Rohr, Institut für Partizipatives Gestalten

Dear Chico and all,

thank you for sharing this Manifest.

I would like to bring an old scandinavian law for the use of the  commons into your mind, which dates way back to preindustrial times.  The Allmansratten. I was always amazed by this law when I travelled to  Sweden or Norway and it touched me how deeply rooted it is in the  conscioussnes of scandinavian people:

http://www.miljo.fi/default.asp?contentid=240887&lan=EN

Have a nice Sunday!
Jascha

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Pat McBroom