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Tiberius Brastaviceanu

The commons law project: A vision of green governance - 0 views

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commons law project governance legal David Bollier Michel Bauwens

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  • “commons law” (not to be confused with common law)
  • Commons law consists of those social practices, cultural traditions and specific bodies of formal law that recognize the rights of commoners to manage their own resources
  • Ever since the rise of the nation-state and especially industrialized markets, however, commons law has been marginalized if not eclipsed by contemporary forms of market-based law
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  • individual property rights and market exchange have been elevated over most everything else, and this has only eroded the rights of commoners,
  • reframe the very notion of “the economy” to incorporate non-market sharing and collaboration.
  • we had concluded that incremental efforts to expand human rights and environmental protection within the framework of the State/Market duopoly were simply not going to achieve much
  • the existing system of regulation and international treaties has been a horrendous failure over the past forty years. Neoliberal economics has corrupted and compromised law and regulation, slashing away at responsible stewardship of our shared inheritance while hastening a steady decline of the world’s ecosystems
  • We concluded that new forms of ecological governance that respect human rights, draw upon commons models and reframe our understanding of economic value, hold great promise
  • An economics and supporting civic polity that valorizes growth and material development as the precondition for virtually everything else is ultimately a dead end—literally.
  • Achieving a clean, healthy and ecologically balanced environment requires that we cultivate a practical governance paradigm based on, first, a logic of respect for nature, sufficiency, interdependence, shared responsibility and fairness among all human beings; and, second, an ethic of integrated global and local citizenship that insists upon transparency and accountability in all activities affecting the integrity of the environment.
  • We believe that commons- and rights-based ecological governance—green governance—can fulfill this logic and ethic. Properly done, it can move us beyond the neoliberal State and Market alliance—what we call the ‘State/Market’—which is chiefly responsible for the current, failed paradigm of ecological governance.
  • The basic problem is that the price system, seen as the ultimate governance mechanism of our polity, falls short in its ability to represent notions of value that are subtle, qualitative, long-term and complicated.
  • These are, however, precisely the attributes of natural systems.
  • Exchange value is the primary if not the exclusive concern.
  • anything that does not have a price and exists ‘outside’ the market is regarded (for the purposes of policy-making) as having subordinate or no value.
  • industry lobbies have captured if not corrupted the legislative process
  • regulation has become ever more insulated from citizen influence and accountability as scientific expertise and technical proceduralism have come to be more and more the exclusive determinants of who may credibly participate in the process
  • we have reached the limits of leadership and innovation within existing institutions and policy structures
  • it will not be an easy task to make the transition from State/Market ecological governance to commons- and rights-based ecological governance
  • It requires that we enlarge our understanding of ‘value’ in economic thought to account for nature and social well-being; that we expand our sense of human rights and how they can serve strategic as well as moral purposes; that we liberate ourselves from the limitations of State-centric models of legal process; and that we honor the power of non-market participation, local context and social diversity in structuring economic activity and addressing environmental problems.
  • articulate and foster a coherent new paradigm
  • deficiencies of centralized governments (corruption, lack of transparency, rigidity, a marginalized citizenry)
Tiberius Brastaviceanu

FTO fiber Tech Optica - 1 views

www.fto.ca/assemblies.html

supplier photonics optical fiber local Montreal

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 05 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 May 12
     
    They do custom assemblies of optical fiber for different applications, mostly illumination. Never ordered from them, never spoke to them, perhaps we need to pay them a visit.
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O-Eland - 1 views

www.o-eland.com

supplier optical fiber devices store Montreal optics potonics local Montreal Tibi material manufacturing

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 21 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 May 12
     
    We (Tibi, Francois, and Jonathan) had a meeting with them, we are developing a stable relationship. The owner is member of the local network in photonics, so this relation is important from a social capital standpoint. They are kind of slow responding to our demands, probably because they don't yet see a big potential. They can collaborate with us for opto-mechanica assemblies, assemplied of photonics, optical fiber... Mostly for custom design. They buy most of the parts from other places, we can do that too, but they can design and male photonic devices.
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MJC Home - 0 views

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supplier local Montreal optical fiber photonics flow scattering collaboration

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  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 May 12
     
    this seams to be a one-man-show, mostly specialized in scattering. Might be good for flow measurements.
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ITF Labs - 0 views

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supplier local Montreal photonics optics optic optical company material

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 May 12 - No Cached
  • Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 09 May 12
     
    recommended by the guys form Photon Etc. they are good for couplers, splitters, isolators, etc.
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Innovation is Booming: But Why Can't We See it in GDP? - Forbes - 0 views

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innovation gdp forbes article new economy

shared by Tiberius Brastaviceanu on 29 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • we know that we have an industrial revolution going on
  • The internet in short.
  • allows us to do new things and also to do old things differently
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  • we cannot actually see this in the figures for economic growth.
  • a problem of measurement. Of the way in which GDP itself is a useful but not complete measure.
  • certain uses of the internet actually reduce GDP: even while making us as individuals richer.
  • we’re measuring economic growth wrong.
  • We have managed to build an economy where trying something new has become increasingly difficult.
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