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I-P-O documentation helps to monitor, communicate and connect flows of energy, materials, components and (by)products. The IPO Tables projects goal is to bring and experiment the I-P-O standard for creating documentation and connecting information to the world of makers and open-source-hardware. And it also wants to bring the ideas of openness ...
In a material balance sheet, the major sources of supply and demand are drawn up in a table that achieves a rough balance between the two through an iterative process. Successive iterations corrected imbalances with previous iterations - for example, deficits signaled the need for extra output in the successive iteration of the balance.
Cosmo-Local Production is a methodology for creating value and products and services that are inspired by the following basic rules: it marries the planetary globalization of knowledge, the 'smart' localization of production, and both local and planetary mutualization, i.e. marrying distributed making and global open innovation: 1) the ...
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Jay Walljasper: "The water commons as a concept is easy to understand. And in a time when our planet is threatened by global warming, the importance of the idea is all-too-obvious. Put simply, the water commons means that water is no one’s property; it rightfully belongs to all of humanity and to the earth itself. It is our duty to protect the qual...
"By necessity, but also driven by a different vision, citizens are both effectively resisting threats and creating alternatives. Here are just a few examples: 1. In April 2008, the grassroots group, Coalition against Water Privatization, won a landmark lawsuit, granting people in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, South Africa, the legal right to...
Karen Bakker: "The question of whether water should be treated as a commons or a commodity has a longhistory. In contemporary discussions, this question often occurs in the context of debates over thesharing of responsibility for water supply between the state, the private sector, and citizens. These are pressing issues, given that private corporat...
"In her wide travels studying and speaking out on these issues, Maude Barlow (author of Blue Gold), sees signs of an emerging water commons consciousness. The efforts at this point are largely local, but when added all together she sees potential for a global movement to press claims to water as fundamental right for all. • Uruguay amended its cons...
Daniel Moss: "Across Latin America and Africa, consumer, human rights, and environmental organizations have campaigned successfully for constitutional amendments and laws enshrining water as a human right. At the recent World Water Forum in Instanbul, 25 countries signed a declaration affirming that same right (the official declaration weakly sugge...
Reclaiming Public Water. Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World. By Brid Brennan, et al. download: The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the g...
Many examples of innovative water policies are outlined in a new report, “Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons: Stories of Rising to the Challenge”, at http://www.onthecommons.org/medi...Report: Our Water CommonsIntroduction: Water: commons or commodity?By Karen BakkerThe book explains these principles, providing companies and organizations with the insight they need to start their own transformation into serendipity machines. The construction of the serendipity machine started with a piece of furniture. When the first Seats2meet.com location went live in Utrecht in April 2007, a glass table for 20 people ...
Data Food Consortium brings together representatives of various platforms and supply chain networks around the table to define together the taxonomy and standards on which we can build this interoperability and thus connect the different initiatives.:" () https: ...
Case Energy Demand (MJ/kg HDPE) Percent Reduction (Δ%) for Distributed Recycling c Distributed Recycling: Insulated RecycleBot 8.74--Virgin Resin a 79.7 89 Centralized Recycling b – Rural: Copper Harbor (monthly) 28.4 69 Centralized Recycling b – Rural: Copper Harbor (bi-weekly)
