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Attempts to Build Cities
The Original EPCOT
The Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was an unfinished concept developed by Walt Disney (the person). Its purpose was to be a “real city that would ‘never cease to be a blueprint of the future,'” designed to stimulate American industry to develop new ideas for urban living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
The Sustainable City
A live city of the future, it is the first net zero energy development in the Emirate of Dubai. The development includes 500 villas, 89 apartments and a mixed use area consisting of offices, retail, healthcare facilities, a nursery and food and beverage outlets. Phase 2 of the development will include a hotel, school and innovation centre. Built on 46 hectares. Population 2,700.
https://www.thesustainablecity.ae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sustainable_City
Free Territory (aka. Makhnovia)
An attempt to form a stateless anarchist society in Ukraine. It existed from 1918 to 1921. Population 7 million. Self-organized along anarchist principles with references to “control” and “government” being highly contentious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
Seasteading
The concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea outside the territory claimed by any government. Seasteaders say such autonomous floating cities would foster faster development of techniques “to feed the hungry, cure the sick, clean the atmosphere and enrich the poor”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
http://seasteading.org & http://freedomship.com
Kibbutz
Kibbutzim (plural of Kibbutz) are intentional communities which began in 1909 as utopian combinations of socialism and Zionism. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel. Crime rates are much lower than in the general population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Republic of Minerva
A micronation consisting of the Minerva Reefs. It was one of the few modern attempts at creating a sovereign micronation on the reclaimed land of an artificial island in 1972.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_Reefs#Republic_of_Minerva
Republic of Rose Island
A short-lived micronation on a man-made platform in the Adriatic Sea, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) off the coast of the province of Rimini, Italy in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island || http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/random/articles/133122/title/short-lived-micronation-rose-island
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
MLK Jr. Advocated UBI.
List of UBI experiments
Current Basic Income Experiments (and those so called): An Overview
How to communicate
The Tyranny of Words [Book]
How to change an opinion
Facts don’t convince people, they only cause people to polarize.
How to convince people:
- Find a group that you’re both part of (race, religion, physical traits, gender, ideas) and use that as a point of personal connection (ingroup/outgroup bias)
- Focus on a common motive (ex: we both care about protecting children, and this is what vaccines are meant to do)
“Data almost never changes minds because humans are machine learning robots, which means they’ve formed their opinions based on a huge network of data points that they’ve passively collected over time. Any data that disagrees with their model is discarded. Only those who are already close to a new belief can be convinced of it with new confirming data. In other words, people can only be nudged.” – Matt
Organizations
Ubuntu Contributionism
Ubuntu Contributionism: A Blueprint For Human Prosperity [Book]
The Responsibility Foundation
“Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
http://responsibilityfoundation.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Responsibility
Technocracy Movement
An abandoned movement very similar to TZM. Jacque Fresco was a member.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The Venus Project
http://www.thevenusproject.com
San Diego Democratic Socialists of America
The DSA Is almost identical to TZM. They seek:
- An end to deportations. Free movement of people, not capital.
- An end to discrimination based on race, sex, gender identity, sexuality, religion, disability or class.
- Tuition-free public education at all levels.
- Health care as a human right.
- Complete reproductive freedom in all forms.
- Safe, affordable housing for all.
- The end to military aggression.
- Equality in and democratization of the workplace and economy.
- Abolishment of the police and prison industrial complex.
- People and the environment over profit.
The Hadza people
One of the last remaining Hunter-gatherer populations, and they use a moneyless sharing economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people
Movies & TV
Comrade Detective
An anti-capitalist comedy drama buddy cop series from a cold war communist perspective.
WALL-E
A future of excessive waste and overconsumption.
The Story of Stuff
Animation showing humanity’s unsustainable cycle of production, consumption, waste, and cultural reinforcement.
Continuum
A series where time travelers from the future try to stop corporations from taking over the government.
Anarcho-Communism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism
Really Really Free Market
A RRFM is a horizontally organized collective of individuals who form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Really_Free_Market
Give-away shop
Give-away shops, swap shops, freeshops, or free stores are stores where all goods are free. It is a form of constructive direct action that provides a shopping alternative to a monetary framework, allowing people to exchange goods and services outside of a money-based economy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give-away_shop
Buy Nothing Project
The Buy Nothing Project (BN Project) is a global network of community-based groups, founded in the United States in 2013, that encourages giving (or recycling) of consumer goods and services (called “gifts of self”) in preference to conventional commerce. The stated aim of the BN Project is about “setting the scarcity model of our cash economy aside in favor of creatively and collaboratively sharing the abundance around us”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Project
Find your local group: https://buynothingproject.org/find-a-group/