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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 behind United Earth is to serve as an open, inclusive and co-created platform, a framework, a vessel that can hold all our values, knowledge, wisdom and aspirations for us to effectively work together to create the world our hearts know is possible. Thus, we wish to emphasise that all you find and read on this website is intended purely is a foundation, a starting point, a framework for what will become our globally co-created framework. We will soon install a direct democracy tool on the website called Liquid Feedback to facilitate our collective decision-making 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!

A Brief History of United Earth

May 2015

Three groups find each other on the Internet, instantly recognising they share the same 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. It is 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 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. 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. 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 choose September 21st, 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 Grand Mother we still decide to go ahead with the equinox launch, although we make it a "soft" one.

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... ).

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.

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 hundreds of millions of people and groups creating a more beautiful world. By exemplifying our capacity to put aside our differences and collaborate for the greater good of all, we will progressively inspire many 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 - the first of which is 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.

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 A 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 change. This is designed especially to draw the youth.

Education

• Education is the primary vehicle for change. Therefore we are creating a solutions portal to a Noomap-wiki directory that converges the global databases cataloguing all information related to transition research and development. From ecological solutions to indigenous knowledge & wisdom to social innovations to alternative political & economic models this globally co-created directory will channel open-source tools, designs, videos, forums, e-workbooks, articles and case studies for the complete range of social, economic and ecological conditions.
• A Noomap to create data visualizations that can be filtered in many different ways. The data visualization would provide a unified and real-time look at the current state of planetary health, the vital signs. The data visualization would contain all planetary boundaries.

Local workshops, seminars, conferences and actions will be announced and coordinated through this platform. Local groups can easily connect to any locally available mentors, trainers, facilitators, mediators etc. A media platform for sharing all global and local news- directly from the source and peer reviewed.

Our Collective Vision for Change

... in the context of...

The ideas below offer basic indicators that are intended to reflect current popularly recognised “best practices” within the social change movement. Naturally these will develop and become more detailed as United Earth grows. Understanding also that “the devil is in the details” we hold true that no single practice or methodology is appropriate for all people, communities or ecological conditions. Thus we imagine co-creating a “planetary menu” of practical tools, strategies, possibilities and mentors that each community can democratically choose for themselves.

Ecological Protection & Stewardship

We are bringing all effective ecological solutions and innovative restoration strategies to the forefront of public education and awareness. Through the widespread implementation of whole-systems practices such as indigenous knowledge systems, permaculture design, natural farming, agro-forestry, holistic land management, water retention landscapes, zero waste, renewable energy and appropriate technology, we are actively working with Nature to heal our biosphere. From sustainability we move towards a flourishing of all life on out planet, in which our actions support that process, rather than prevent further damages.

Indigenous Peoples

We collectively recognise and declare all Indigenous territories and cultural heritage as World heritage. Indigenous wisdom and knowledge underpins our cultural re-education and our re-connection to Mother Earth. Sacred plant medicine is honoured and used with respect- often guided through indigenous ceremony.

Spiritual Awakening

We are creating a human culture that celebrates spiritual diversity- where time, facilities and guidance for any chosen practice is readily available. We foresee a human society where realising inner and outer peace and harmony is at the heart of our individual and our collective endeavour. A common meeting ground is our reverence for life and the sacredness of Nature.

Social Change

Our first collective priority and responsibility is to ensure that the basic human rights of healthy food, clean water, comfortable shelter and renewable energy are met by everyone. By combining local knowledge systems with new innovations, communication tools and intelligent design & management we are collectively engaging in localised and participatory transition strategies- mostly by using existing infrastructures. Transition Towns, Ecovillages and Traditional villages provide a wealth of tools, practices, experiences and living examples for creating resilient, vibrant and diverse communities. Ultimately we are shaping a culture wherein each person is free to follow their passion and fully express their unique creativity without financial and legal restrictions (provided no harm is committed).

Direct Democracy

Like our economic, legal and social reform, our new political structures prioritise the welfare of The People and the Planet. Consequently, like all aspects of intelligent reform, we are bringing politics back to the local level, using collective and participatory decision-making tools like direct democracy and e-democracy. For large populations councils and representatives are still elected, but their role is understood as facilitators who administer and implement of the will of The People. All votes and financial accounts are transparently available for everyone to see. Each neighbourhood, town, village and community is free to choose their own collective stewardship and decision-making structure.

Sacred Economics

The basis of our economic reform is to transition towards local, circular economies that prioritise social and ecological responsibility. Progressive transition strategies facilitate a collective “weaning” from the old consumer culture to one of responsible use and voluntary simplicity. Now goods that are being produced are necessarily high quality, durable and fully recyclable. Many societies are moving towards moneyless, gift and resource based economies. Within this evolving economic (hybrid) paradigm - sometimes referred to as the sharing economy, the collaborative economy, the peer to peer economy, the gift economy; the digitization of value is also emerging as low cost OS opportunities present themselves and the value relationship with technical and biological nutrients evolves. citizens - referred to as consumers by the linear industrial economic system are emerging as ‘prosumers’ with a direct relationship in the making, producing and sharing of goods and services. This under the motto: ‘I do what I can, and I take what I need.’

Natural Law

As free and equal people we recognise personal sovereignty as the basis for all common laws and agreements. Man-made laws are reduced to a collective understanding and practice of Natural Law- basically Do no harm. We understand that for freedom to not fall into chaos we must each take personal responsibility for the welfare and harmony of all. Transgressions and conflicts are dealt with with the help of experienced peace-builders and non-violent communication facilitators.

Peace-building

By collectively focussing on healing our environment and re-building our communities we realise our capacity to create a culture of abundance that comes from sharing and working together- with each other and with Nature. By creating prosperous local communities international conflicts are become obsolete. Residual conflicts due to fundamentalist beliefs are held and mediated by artists of non-violent communication and restorative, healing circles.

The Global Transition Plan - a plausible foundation for planetary co-creation

Note: United Earth is just being born. Our family is still incomparably small to what it will soon become. What follows is an example of what our Global Transition Plan might look like. While we aspire to reflect some of the most visionary, innovative and pragmatic ideas, views and transition strategies on the planet today, we recognise that we are merely a spark to the flame of planetary transformation that needs to be woven and co-created by all of us, equally and together.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

With our human resources organised and primed for action, our digital and mobile collaboration and communication tools functioning optimally, and abundant finances at-the-ready, we collectively and intentionally enter a well-designed, progressive Global Transition Plan. We imagine that by this time most of the world’s governments will have aligned (willingly or unwillingly) with the will of The People and thus will be fully supportive and integrated into our collaborative efforts.

The Global Transition Plan will be carried out in three primary phases:

Phase 1 (2016 - 2020)

- Mobilise and deploy teams of permaculturists, transitioners, ecovillagers, natural builders, community builders, sociocracy & non-violent communication educators and other relevant experts to collaborate with local NGO's; using and improving existing tools and infrastructures to ensure the basic human needs of healthy food, clean water, comfortable shelter and clean energy are met by everyone - throughout the transition phase and beyond into abundance for all. - Securing a Universal Basic Income for every human being 16 years and older. - Implementing a 20 hour work-week as many jobs will be obsolete due to their ecologically harmful nature. - Sharing the most relevant work of growing food and providing vital goods and services at the local level. - Creating a temporary international system of social organisation that is based on mutual support, resource sharing and transparent, direct-democracy for the purposes of facilitating, coordinating and synergising our collective transition at the global and local levels. - Mainstreaming relevant education around ecological awareness, localisation, zero waste, conscious consumerism, Natural Law, voluntary simplicity, planetary boundaries & natural family planning, re-skilling etc. through the Internet and the television. Most people will become deeply inspired to self-educate when they realise the monumental wealth of inspiring and practical knowledge that is readily available. - Implement Phase 1 ecological restoration and stewardship strategies:

 - Halting all environmentally destructive activity
 - Urgently phasing out animal factory farms
 - Transitioning industrial agriculture into large scale agro-ecological farms
 - Up-scaling urban and sub-urban food production
 - Maximising low-input, land-based water retention
 - Up-scaling renewable energy and appropriate technology research, development and distribution. (A booming bicycle industry!)
 - Urgently down-scaling fossil fuel extraction and consumption
 - Gathering, sorting, re-cycling and up-cycling all land and water-based waste.

Phase 2 (2021 - 2025)

- Constructing and retrofitting urban, sub-urban and rural Transition Research & Education Centres (TRECs). - Creating Cultural Development Centres (CDCs) where people can find resources and guidance in adapting their skills and interests towards serving our Global Transition. While TRECs focus more on ecological and economic dimensions, CDCs focus more on the cultural and social dimensions, yet both are holistic and interconnected. CDCs provide open labs for people to explore and develop their passions, talents, creative expression, communication skills and self-awareness. - Creating self-organising, zero waste, resilient and vibrant communities, villages and towns. Voluntarily re-populating the country-side that is flourishing with activity and culture while bringing city populations down to sustainable levels. - Elders are respectfully re-integrated into society, valued for their contributions to life, their wisdom will be sought out. - Promoting cultural and spiritual diversity and inter-cultural exchange. Traditional and indigenous skills, crafts and knowledge systems are preserved, restored and integrated. - Developing thriving zero-growth, local, circular and resource-based economies. - Developing appropriate technology that raises our quality of life and enhances our biosphere. Transport becomes 100% clean and international product exchange is limited to a matter of necessity. - All production becomes environmentally sound, free of any toxic ingredients. Products are designed for durability,repairability and fully recyclable - Designing and creating inspiring and free learning environments for children. - Implementing traditional, indigenous and modern knowledge, as well as taking into account the wisdom of the ages from all four directions (four colors of humanity) - Implement Phase 2 of ecological restoration and stewardship strategies:

 - Building water-retention landscapes wherever appropriate
 - Implementing natural water purification strategies
 - Implement anti-desertification strategies and commence re-greening degraded landscapes and deserts
 - Wild animal - especially sea creature - populations are actively restored
 - Create urban and sub-urban food forests 
 - Creating a global-to-local network of heirloom seed-banks that freely provide a vast variety of seeds for all
 - Eliminating all genetically contaminated organisms
 - Eliminating all toxic materials and residues with the help of fungi, Effective Micro-organisms etc.
 - Phasing out all fossil fuel and minimizing mineral extraction and consumption
 - 100% renewable energy 
 - Biogas production - from household up to urban-scale

Phase 3 (2025 - … )

Aspirations that we continue to cooperatively work towards using the wisdom, tools and skills that we have gathered… as prophesied by many cultures)

- All life and the miracle of Creation is celebrated. We have learned how to see, hear and act in a sacred manner. - All political boundaries are dissolved, creating one immensely diverse, yet undivided Human Family. - All people share equal rights and status - Women and men are equal partners in the entire flourishing domain of human affairs. - All children are safe anywhere they want to go. - In full conscious co-creation with Nature our biosphere thrives, providing abundant food for all the Earth’s creatures. All rivers and streams are drinkable and run crystal clear. - Recreation and work become synonymous; with ample time for relaxation, playing with the children and building meaningful relationships. - Money or material wealth are seldom thought or spoken about. - Arts and culture flourish like never before. - Technology has developed to responsibly provide for all our communications, travel, physical comforts and conveniences.

And so our children will grow and live happy and free in a vibrant, diverse, uncomplicated, humane and abundant world. And as they grow they will begin to comprehend the profound significance of our truly epic and timely global collaboration to consciously and collectively rise from the ashes of domination and destruction. Yet they will only be able to imagine what an incredible privilege it was for us to be alive on planet Earth during this fleeting window of astronomical opportunity.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

– Arundhati Roy

A Way of Unity and Cooperation for the change we all seek

Most of the people and all the groups involved in positive change are connected to Internet, which means there is a latent potential for us to join and work together on a world-wide scale. By pooling and demonstrating our collective intelligence, we have the potential to progressively guide a planetary transition. Ultimately, through exercising our collective power to unify and cooperate, we can co-create a human culture that thrives in harmony with Nature and reflects our human potential of freedom, peace, diversity and abundance.

Decision-making Process

Currently our decisions are present consensus-based- which means a consensus by all who choose to participate in a particular topic or question. As United Earth grows we foresee that the global decisions- those that determine our collective direction and actions- will be facilitated through a transparent and direct democratic process. For this and other purposes our alliance includes a team that incorporates and develops appropriate web and mobile tools and applications.

For now, until United Earth has gained wide-spread recognition and participation throughout the social change movement, we intend to grow our steering-group to 50 active people and implement a sociocratic structure of mutually-supportive autonomy for each branch of focus. Naturally, everyone is free to present ideas, questions and feedback within our United Earth alliance and all steering-group decisions will be transparent and open to review.

Ultimately we envision United Earth becoming a global platform for communication, collaboration, coordination, education and mobilisation around all matters relating to The Great Transition. Through the United Earth platform we can co-create actions and events ranging from the global to the local level. Thus the percentage of democratic majority can be adjusted according to the size of the group i.e. 90% up to 20 people, 80% up to 2000 people, 70% up to 20 million... As we choose.

Our Finances

In our current money-based economic system we still need some cash to do the work we do. Aside from out-of-pocket expenses for the website for some team members A United Earth is a full-time commitment and we would love to support this with appropriate stipends. Accordingly, we will soon be launching a crowd-funding campaign to provide A United Earth with the financial freedom we need to achieve our collective and numerous pioneering goals.

Currently we have a team working a cryptocurrency called The Earth Dollar.

We are committed to opening all UE accounts to complete transparency via the website.

Tools used

We are using several different tools for our distributed collaboration. If you are new and having problems getting started to use Mumble or Slack to communicate with us don't hesitate to contact us and we will help out!

Mumble

Mumble is a team audio chat service that is optimized for exactly this: audio teleconferencing with several participants. We have a Mumble server running on united-earth.vision.

Please read the Mumble setup page to get up and running.

Slack

Slack is a team chat service with client apps for almost every platform including mobile. We are using Slack with its ability to have many different channels to maintain focused team chats for our different task groups. If you want to join our Slack team you need an invitation which you will get shortly after emailing us.

Google Docs

We are using Google Docs for many specific tasks.

All documents can be find in our G drive. Please add any new document to this list.

Trello

We started using Trello to keep track of our tasks. An invitation is need here, too. Please send us an email.