Check it . . . on the link below

Gorden Ramsey sorting out two big messes . . .

gorden is all about localise

Representative democracies limit citizen participation to voting, leaving actual governance to politicians.

With the citizens out of the way, politicians can then get on with the BUSINESS of Government.

Are there are other options out there?

Of course there are . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy

Will the government be giving us all the option to get involved and have our say?

Mmmmmmm, not so sure – real complicated – to get everyone involved . . . RIGHT?

.WRONG.

The unbounded imagination of the human spirit has come up with a functional technology to enable simple and effective mass group participation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology

So my friends . . . what are you waiting for . . . jump aboard the co-creation train . . . its about to depart and needs your voice.

http://www.openspaceworld.com/index.htm

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil is a project of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, a non-profit organization that designs and teaches low-energy solutions to the current unsustainable, fossil fuel based, industrialized, and centralized way of living. Visit www.communitysolution.org for more information.

From The Community Solution’s viewpoint, Cuba did what it could to survive, despite its ideology of a centralized economy. In the face of peak oil and declining oil production, will we do what it takes to survive, in spite of a ideology of individualism and consumerism? Will our we come together in community, as Cubans did, in the spirit of sacrifice and mutual support?

Ignore how they are saying it – I recommend playing it while doing other bits on the computer.

Listen to what they are saying . . .

Now the recession is a big one and thus has many complex causes and effects, therefore it can in theory be used as a really big tool to enable the radical decentralization necessary to ensure damage limitation for local communities in western countries. Fortunately those in positions of power do not have the required imaginations to organize this radical decentralization properly, if we left it to them we would really be in trouble. Therefore it is up to ordinary folk like you and me to get the ball rolling . . .

The idea is simple and it will work – since it follows the organizing principles of the evolutionary process which governs all life in the Universe. In this blog I will outline the theory behind the idea and how I am sharing the idea with my local community to ensure the most effective transition from here to there.

The idea I have called ‘LOCALIZATION ‘ and is a culmination of much thinking and mulling on many related areas over the past years. Some of these areas which will feature havily are education, community capacity building, building community networks, sustainable living, creativity and imagination, empowerment of the youth, intergenerational activities, guided evolution of society, social business, conscious evolution, spirit, truth, active citizenship, direct action, leadership, permaculture, freeganism, nlp, open source technologies, wikis, self governance, autotelic self, resiliance, adaptablitiy, 10,000 hrs, happyness, love, music, free energy, renewables.

I intend to use the recession as a tool – my desire is that you and your friends and family, in turn, use this blog as a tool for action – if you have any questions please contact me – I am here to help.