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Here you can find all the information about what the UE pioneering team have created so far. Because this is just the beginning... | Here you can find all the information about what the UE pioneering team have created so far. Because this is just the beginning... | ||
| − | The core intention upholding United Earth is to serve as an open, inclusive and co- | + | The core intention upholding United Earth is to serve as an open, inclusive and co-creative platform, a framework, a vessel that can hold and concentrate all our shared values, knowledge, wisdom and aspirations so we can work together effectively to create the world our hearts know is possible. Thus, we wish to emphasise that all you find and read on the website and in this wiki is intended purely is a foundation, a starting point, a framework for what will become our universally co-created platform for our global transition. |
To guide our organisational structures, collective projects and decision-making we intend to use innovative tools such as Sociocracy 3.0, Dragon Dreaming and Direct Democracy. In light of United Earth's commitment to equality and transparency, we will soon be installing on our (and your) website an application to facilitate our collective and group decision-making through an open and participatory democratic process. | To guide our organisational structures, collective projects and decision-making we intend to use innovative tools such as Sociocracy 3.0, Dragon Dreaming and Direct Democracy. In light of United Earth's commitment to equality and transparency, we will soon be installing on our (and your) website an application to facilitate our collective and group decision-making through an open and participatory democratic process. | ||
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* This map also profiles every person who wishes to share any ideas, visions, services and /or goods with the collective. | * This map also profiles every person who wishes to share any ideas, visions, services and /or goods with the collective. | ||
* Platform matches people and projects to resources through semantic web by making recommendations and performing relevant "matchmaking". | * Platform matches people and projects to resources through semantic web by making recommendations and performing relevant "matchmaking". | ||
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Revision as of 14:36, 23 September 2015
Welcome to the United Earth Wiki!
Here you can find all the information about what the UE pioneering team have created so far. Because this is just the beginning...
The core intention upholding United Earth is to serve as an open, inclusive and co-creative platform, a framework, a vessel that can hold and concentrate all our shared values, knowledge, wisdom and aspirations so we can work together effectively to create the world our hearts know is possible. Thus, we wish to emphasise that all you find and read on the website and in this wiki is intended purely is a foundation, a starting point, a framework for what will become our universally co-created platform for our global transition.
To guide our organisational structures, collective projects and decision-making we intend to use innovative tools such as Sociocracy 3.0, Dragon Dreaming and Direct Democracy. In light of United Earth's commitment to equality and transparency, we will soon be installing on our (and your) website an application to facilitate our collective and group decision-making through an open and participatory democratic process.
In the meantime you are warmly invited to use the feedback window in your personal sign up to share your ideas, skills and insight as to how we can improve and promote this platform for intentional unification and conscious collaboration for a citizen-led, whole-systems cultural transformation! Yeah!
Contents
A Brief History of United Earth
May 2015
Three groups find each other on the Internet, instantly recognising they share a similar vision of global unity and collaboration:
- COM21 - the Conference of the Movements (under a banner called "United Earth") will take place in Paris at the same time as the COP21 as a parallel event "of The People" aiming to gather all movements of environmental protection and social change to promote community solutions for Climate Change.
- Kaminphilosophen.de - A local group in Dortmund, Germany, connecting people looking for alternative ways of living, welcoming everybody within their circle of authentic communication and focusing on helping people to make conscious decisions based on love instead of fear.
- The Great Unification - A platform for the global unification and collaboration among all people and groups creating and more beautiful world for the purpose of attracting world-wide attention to the existing intelligent and alternative political and economic models, ecological solutions and social innovations.
We begin inviting like-minded groups to join the conversation.
June
The informal alliance grows to include five other initiatives:
- The Full Circle Project - An active hub for people to unite a diverse range of local cooperative initiatives from around the globe with a principle aim: to bring mankind Full Circle into their natural state of abundance.
- Stop Reset Go - A holistic framework consisting of complimentary digital tools that will help bring together the countless amazing but highly fragmented movements, change agents and organizations already out there doing amazing work.
- Indigenous Peoples United Nations - A global platform for uniting all indigenous people of Earth to promote and preserve Indigenous Culture, Lands, Rights, Knowledge & Wisdom. They are organising a global event on June 26 to sign and declare the Indigenous Peoples United Nations Charter.
- The New World Agreement - A Platform by which all people of the world can agree to a NEW PARADIGM of cooperation, and abundance for all life.
- Inspiring Transition - An informal collaborative for inspiring mainstream commitment to doing everything required to become ecologically sustainable (and socially healthy; they go together). We inspire this commitment by helping people connect the dots and think for themselves.
- The Freeworld Charter - A statement of principles that has the potential to optimise life on Earth for all species, eradicate poverty and greed, and advance progress.
We all agree that the vision of global collaboration towards a whole-systems cultural transformation is a vision that is already shared and being worked on by numerous people, groups, organisations and networks. At the same time we also recognise the need for a truly inclusive and practical framework and platform to facilitate this vision into manifestation. We begin to lay out a basic framework for United Earth. The name, at this stage, was used as a convenience. We also began to explore other possible names.
Read relevant e-mails HERE
July
We recognise the need to attract more co-creators and to invite feedback with regards to our name, the tagline, the logo etc. To make the process of co-creating this platform as inclusive and transparent as possible we decide to create a [survey / feedback form. This idea quickly evolves into the co-creation of a simple landing-page. Through ongoing email discussion a core team begins to form of about six people, while about 13 people take a more passive role as observers, providing occasional feedback. We connect with Noomap and instantly form a close connection, recognising the power and potential of their creation. Since we are all men in the core group we do our best to attract women!
August
We agree to do a "contained" launch for the landing page, meaning we put a password on it. This was mainly to prevent copyright issues for the video (that we decided to make only two weeks before the launch!) and also because of the rudimentary nature of the landing-page we decided to just share it with our personal networks. We agree on the title name "A United Earth." The landing-page with the feedback form was launched on August 26th, 2015. Only days after one member was invited to attend the UN Solutions Summit in September. We quickly prepare a comprehensive application just before the dead-line.
September
Due to the UN application we are compelled to do the public launch before the Summit. We begin gathering and integrating the feedback. We choose September 23rd, the equinox, as the launch date. Even though the application is rejected and we have plenty of work outstanding, thanks to fresh female energy- including a Grandmother from an Indigenous Elders group - we still decide to go ahead with the equinox launch, although we make it a "soft" launch. After much debate but mainly due to translation complications we decide on reducing the name to simply "United Earth".
Here & Now
Our budding alliance already represents a wide variety of groups and movements within the world-wide movement of social change (also called The Blessed Unrest, Cultural Creatives, The Awakening Collective, The Next Culture, The Imaginal Cells... ).
Our collective intention is to continue co-creating this platform by openly inviting equal collaboration and by finding and building on that which we all agree upon. Our shared values- such as equality, trust, humility, harmony, transparency, authenticity and courage- are brought into practice by how we communicate and cooperate together. We see all our microcosmic interactions and co-creations as a holographic reflection of how we envision the macrocosmic unfolding.
Objectives
Objective 1: To invite and facilitate an intentional unification among all the millions of people and thousands of groups working for environmental protection & stewardship, social justice & innovation, Indigenous rights & culture, personal development etc. By exemplifying our capacity to put aside our differences and collaborate for the greater good of all, we will progressively inspire more and more people to join in, learn about and co-create a human culture of harmony, diversity and abundance.
Note: Uniting is essentially a choice that we each need to make for ourselves and as a collective. Once the vast majority of humanity have agreed to unite around our common intention we will have actualised the vital first step towards our conscious collective cultural shift.
Objective 2: Through our unparalleled and ground-breaking unification we will effectively attract global mainstream attention to the wealth of existing intelligent and alternative models and solutions - as well as the living examples - of how we can co-create a more beautiful and abundant world for everyone.
Note: Each of the Objectives & Milestones will be marked by a Global Transition Gathering and the COM21- which are scheduled to coincide with the COP21 in Paris, France on December 5th & 6th, 2015.
Objective 3: By collectively demonstrating and promoting the wisdom, intelligence and practical innovation that is flourishing within our Human Family, we aspire to co-create, disseminate and implement a clear and lucid plan of how humanity can progressively, peacefully and seamlessly transition from our current failing systems into new paradigm models that truly serve The People and The Earth.
Common Ground
Recognising and honouring our common ground is essential to building unity. Our common ground is where all our shared values, needs and aspirations converge in clear resonance.
Suggested guidelines for our common ground are:
- The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- The Earth Charter
Core Aspirations
- Urgent ecological protection, preservation and restoration.
- Ensuring the basic human rights of food, water, shelter and energy for EVERYONE.
- The protection of all Indigenous cultures and lands.
- Embracing personal sovereignty and cultural & spiritual diversity.
- Fundamental political and economic reform based on ecological and social responsibility, localisation, direct democracy, transparency and accountability.
Core Understandings
- Hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of groups around the world are actively creating “a more beautiful world.”
- Within this diverse and inspiring movement we have inherited and developed a vast array of grass-root solutions to solve most/all of the world's problems.
- These solutions and alternative models do not fit into the old system due to an inherent conflict of interest i.e. Profit vs. Planet, Power vs. Welfare, Competition vs. Cooperation etc.
- Meanwhile we are also witnessing escalating levels of disenchantment and civil unrest within the mainstream. Alternative possibilities remain widely unknown due to corporate media control. Most people cooperate with the status quo because they believe they have no other choice.
- A conscious transition towards a life-sustaining society will be rooted in cross-cultural collaboration and mainstreaming ecological & cultural (re-)education.
United Earth and Organisations
A Win-Win Situation
Being an open and equality-based platform United Earth equally welcomes all groups that wish to co-create on the basis of UE's objectives. In light of Objective #2, as United Earth gains momentum and numbers we will attract more and more attention - not only to our unification, but especially to the multitude of solutions, innovations and ideas for positive change, as well as the groups that are developing and promoting them. The United Earth website will soon have a page that will showcase a different allied group each day. This, in turn encourages allied groups to also promote United Earth through their networks. Thus we all begin to support each other, all the while bringing our unique contributions into the field of public awareness.
Respecting Autonomy
A common concern for organisations (and some people) is that when they"join" another group, movement or network etc. they are somehow compromising or relinquishing their identity, their work, their focus or their achievements. In this respect the intention of the United Earth platform was eloquently expressed by one of the co-creators from stopresetgo.org:
I have an image of a small group of people working to put out the flames of a burning building, thinking they are alone, working in silo, when suddenly previously invisible brothers and sisters appear with hoses and buckets - working alongside each other in their millions... this is what we are ultimately aiming to do. By providing a framework. Not seen as trying to absorb the many movements under one 'Mother movement' but to link and integrate with each other in harmony towards our collective goal of a new ecologically restorative, socially just and spiritually fulfilling world.
Different Relationships
United Earth, as with all groups, will develop different relationships with different groups according to our resonance and capacity to support each other. Two groups that began co-creating with UE almost from its inception are Noomap and Earth Dollar, mainly because these groups can provide valuable technology and resources for the development of the UE platform. Still, UE remains completely open to collaborating with other groups from the same field. We are all here to explore and celebrate our highest collective and co-creative potential, free from old paradigms of competition and intellectual property.
The Challenge
By inviting the full spectrum of communities, organisations, tribes, networks, movements, alliances etc. to one common meeting space, we are also inviting the full spectrum of human behaviour patterns and mental preconceptions to come and be tested. For millennia humankind have been living according to the survival of the fittest or competition paradigm. Our capacity to work together as respectful equals has not been exemplified or prioritised in the "development" of our culture. The opening line of The Whirling Rainbow prophecy (as shown upon landing on the UE website) states that There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences. This is mostly our single biggest challenge- as individuals and as a collective. Some would simply call it ego. United Earth will attract thousands our groups. Most you will probably like, some you may not. Ultimately, our capacity to join hands in unification, to heal the Earth and all Her children rests on our humility and our maturity to leave aside our personal prejudices, agendas and ideologies for the greater potential of our unified collaboration.
The Future of United Earth
We envision the evolution of United Earth much like the establishment of a food forest. In the beginning it requires a lot of work; research (communication & promotion) design (planning & networking), implementation (collaboration & coordination). And within a matter of a few years Nature takes her own course into a self-regulating, de-centralised, mutually-supportive and inter-dependent system that just becomes more diverse and abundant without any maintenance.
Our Vision for the United Earth Digital Platform
As a planetary meeting ground for global unity and collaboration for a whole-systems transformation of human society we foresee the United Earth digital platform as a global “syntropy engine”- a synergistic networking and resource map- to be hosting three main areas of activity: Unity, Collaboration and Education. Currently United Earth is in close co-creationship with Noomap- “a whole systems holonic innovation which will catalyze the greatest game of co-creation on the planet.” Here are some prospective ideas and tools as well as some that have already been developed within the alliance:
Unity
- A global community counter of people and groups wishing to work together. This is also a key for attracting mainstream attention and interest.
- An integrated appropriate social network.
- An overview and calendar of global actions, events and celebrations related to A United Earth, conscious living and cultural transition.
Collaboration
- A global synergistic resource Noomap, which includes a directory of groups, communities, organisations and networks categorised according to their areas of focus (we are hoping to revive the wiserearth.org directory for this purpose).
- Individuals and groups that connect globally and locally can instantly and make use of the cutting-edge communication, coordination and collaboration technologies that we are gathering.
- This map also profiles every person who wishes to share any ideas, visions, services and /or goods with the collective.
- Platform matches people and projects to resources through semantic web by making recommendations and performing relevant "matchmaking".
- The platform can essentially “gamify” change by giving everyone an avatar and presenting a gaming interface for ch
