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Coming together and being heard: co-operative governance, community decision-making, and a fair voice for all.

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Knowledge Tree

A seedling · 4 offerings

What this Commons knows so far, woven into one read from Thoughtful Offerings. Offer something you know and where it comes from; once three members vouch for it, it's woven in.

Communities can choose their own people and run their own systems, from village solar power to local money, keeping decisions and benefits close to home.

What we know

Communities can make their own choices about who serves them and how shared systems are run. When a village or neighbourhood governs something itself, the benefit tends to stay local.1,2

What works

Villages choose older women to train as solar engineers. These women then bring electricity to their own community and keep the power running.1

A community currency is local money that the community issues and governs itself. It keeps spending and credit moving among neighbours and local businesses.2

Open questions

We don't yet have details of specific places, projects or results for either approach. Learning where they have been tried, and how villages and communities decide who takes part, would be a useful next step.1,2

Woven by AI from 2 offerings · 10 hours ago. The numbers lead to the offerings it rests on.

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  • 1Villages choose older women to train as solar engineers, who then electrify and maintain their own community's power.

    From SeedTree's Fruit · Barefoot women solar engineers

  • 2A local money, issued and governed by the community, that keeps spending and credit circulating among neighbours and local businesses.

    From SeedTree's Fruit · Community currency

Held by its custodians · not woven

  • Held by its custodians · Cultural knowledge, shared as Fruit with its lineage: ask its custodians before using it.

    Neighbours pool regular small savings into a fund they own and govern, and lend it back to each other, giving people financial services where banks don't reach.

    From SeedTree's Fruit · Member-owned savings and credit groups

  • Held by its custodians · Cultural knowledge, shared as Fruit with its lineage: ask its custodians before using it.

    Land is bought, gifted or transferred back to Indigenous Peoples, often through an Indigenous-led trust, so they can care for Country on their own terms.

    From SeedTree's Fruit · Indigenous-led land return through land trusts

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