Feasta

Feasta

URL = http://www.feasta.org/

Description

Feasta, set up in Ireland (but not exclusive to it) by Richard Douthwaite and John Jopling, aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose

More Information

• (a) General - Internet video of Feasta lecture about "Reclaiming the

Commons" by Emer O'Siochru, at http://vimeo.com/5667418

Note also that discussions about commons are to be found at various places on Feasta Forums at, at http://www.feasta.org/forum/index.php

• (b) On "cap and share" as an approach to managing the atmospheric commons, at http://www.feasta.org/documents/energy/Cap-and-Share-May08-summary.htm

also www.capandshare.org (this is the website of a campaigning organisation for 'cap and share' that is an offshoot of Feasta's work)

• (c) Global Climate Trust initiative - governance arrangements for

global atmosphere/climate commons, at http://www.globalclimatetrust.com/principles.htm

• (d) Land Value Tax and the value of the land commons

- http://www.feasta.org/documents/landhousing/coritax.html

- http://vimeo.com/6099122

• (e) The monetary system as a commons (This includes a link to a piece

that Richard Douthwaite wrote and the full discussion that followed it.)

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/will-big-business-privatise-the-monetary-commons/2010/02/25