White paper on Neighbourhood
Governance outlining the essential role to be played by neighbourhood
coordination, and coordination amongst neighbourhoods. This is conceived as an effective way to
address the challenges of air, water and food pollution, and consequently
climate change, plus the proliferation we’ve seen of degenerative diseases
amongst young and old alike. (Please email and request a copy.)
Determined that the Great
Law of Peace of the Six Nations people is excellent as a form of inspiration for coordination by
neighbourhood internationally. It has
been in use for over 700 years as the most advantageous and highly respected form
of participative democracy. It became
the basis of the American Constitution. The
elders` circle became the Senate; the warriors` circle of entrepreneurs who
protect the good of society became the House of Representatives; the captain
nation that takes into account the good of the next seven generations became
the presidency. However, the roles of
choosing leaders and keeping them honest played by the wise women’s circle, and
the role of developing the next generation of leaders played by the youth
circle, were dispensed with. (Please do a `Google search` to find out more.)
Planning two distinct collaborative village sites in South East
Parkdale west of King-Dufferin around a centre
for neighbourhood excellence, and up-town, north of Yonge-Wellesley around
a centre for creativity, community and
compassion. We`re working on securing funding for launching the Yonge-Wellesley collaborative village.
White paper on Revitalization
of Toronto’s Media production industry as providing the local, economic
basis for growth of neighbourhood economic activity within a creative economy.
Approached Toronto city councillor, Gord Perks to propose that our City Hall encourage
neighbourhood renewal by adopting new by-laws and tax rebates programs for
landlords with vacant properties. This
is to make it easier for neighbours to move into empty or underutilized
storefronts and offices, plus acquire the necessary materials to establish multi-occupant
cottage industry-style production and boutique-style retail spaces.
Worked in committees at the Occupy Toronto site at King and
Church Streets to finalize software architecture for a major, online social institution
equivalent to the People’s Assembly of the United Nations. The UN was given the mission to build both a
General Assembly as an institution for national governments, and a People’s
Assembly as a global social institution when it was established in the
nineteen-forties. Since then we have
witnessed increased globalization amongst governments to benefit
multinational companies with no support in terms of international society. (A network of freelancers could extend
throughout the over 1,000 cities engaged in the Occupy Movement. Representing them to member organizations of
an alliance of sympathetic organizations could provide the economic basis for activism to hold a more integrated
and sustainable role within development of an international society.)
Pre-production of a musical, the
Toronto Epic, to take to neighbourhoods and to business people visiting
Toronto in a unique way that would allow ideas about local economies and international collaboration
to be more readily grasped and `experienced’ than by publishing and presenting
plans.
Completing plans to increase hotel revenues by increasing
the lengths of stays by business visitors.
Neighbours supplement and revitalize the existing hospitality industry
through services that customize the visits of business people to Toronto.
Completing proposals for neighbourhood women circles to work
with land development companies to customize condo buildings in Toronto. This will both support home-based
entrepreneurs as potential tenants, and increase society’s capacity to generate
viable goods and services from local ideas.
In general, this will revitalize neighbourhoods and decrease the number
of unused solutions sitting, doing nothing on people`s hard drives (i.e. decrease the liquidity within the marketplace for
intellectual property).
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