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Earth Economics provides robust, science-based, ecologically sound economic analysis, policy recommendations and tools to positively transform regional, national and international economics, and asset accounting systems.

"Humanity is now at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his inspiring address to Portland University's graduate class in May of 2009, "civilization needs a new operating system," and fast. Many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system"

tools and behaviors that are developing to make economic exchange, transactions, payments, commerce, distributed collaboration, resource allocation, and social enterprise formation as frictionless and fluid as possible.

To inspire and empower people to build economical, sustainable, and community created structures through an international network of skilled and unskilled volunteers that exchange knowledge, labor, and experiences at sustainable self-build projects. Help one another, house one another, sustain life on our planet!

Answer from the UK's FSA on the legality of the Grok The design of the ReeComm, and in particular of the Grok, conform to German national law, where the Grok is even exempt from supervision by the financial services authority. For other countries the relevant local authorities and fiscal experts must be consulted, and a set of rules for "your" Grok hammered out which are legal by your national laws. We have received a reply from the UK's Financial Services Authority to our question about the Grok in the UK; it is both long and difficult to understand. We will be glad to provide it to anyone interested - just contact us.

This will be a profoundly social economy, built on unprecedented capabilities to self-organize people and resources in the crowd. Social media will connect ideas, people, and institutions across porous boundaries that blur the inside/outside distinctions of yesterday 's companies and government agencies. Network connections will be the distribution channels across market sectors and radical transparency will be the new norm.

DYNDY is an effort at building a Pattern Language for Alternative and Complementary Money Systems to inform and empower grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, instruments and reflections for the Exodus from proprietary money.

Suite of web apps for mapping benefits, stakeholders and service flows in ecosystems for clearer valuation and management

WRI's goal is to reverse rapid degradation of ecosystems and assure their capacity to provide humans with needed goods and services.

The Great Transformation was first published in 1944, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy

The Claverton Energy Group is a loose collection of individuals from various organisations with expertise in various areas related to energy, government policy, technology, engineering, finance, management, environment, climate change, transportation, agriculture, water, waste disposal and more.

" Elements will be the first "crowdsourced" restaurant, conceived and developed by an open community of experts and interested parties" Imgine if the finance was crowd sourced and it was run as a democratic open enterprise using Bettermeans or similar