Be The Change Wiki
Be The Change Cooperative
Be The Change Cooperative - A cooperative of local communities co-creating regenerative community buildings governed and owned by local neighborhoods through a shared platform.
Place-Based Cooperatives
Commongrounds
Commongrounds - A new 4-story, 50,000 s.f. $16 million development in Traverse City, Michigan cooperatively owned by nearly 600 members. It will feature a food incubator, coffeeshop, distillery, childcare center, cowering space for impact organizations and businesses, performing arts and events space, artist-in-residence space, and 24 workforce rental units. Construction began in Fall 2020, with tenants scheduled to move in by 2022.
DC Arts + Wellness Co-Creation Hub
DC Arts + Wellness Co-Creation Hub - An arts and wellness real estate cooperative based on arts, wellness, nature and indigenous values hosting community events, plant medicine ceremonies, workshops and creative, educational experiences. It will be located in a DC neighborhood to be determined with a groundbreaking goal of 2022, with a projected ownership of 1000 members.
Mutualistic Communication + Governance
Partnerism
Partnerism - A socio-economic system that values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future. Partnerism is based on Cultural Transformation Theory, which proposes that societies used to follow a mutualistic, caring “partnership model” of civilization, giving way to today's current “dominator model” of civilization, but with growing evidence that we are returning to the partnership model.
Regeneration
===Regenerative Systems=== An overview of regenerative systems and their applications.
Self Organization
Self Organizing Systems
Self Organizing Systems - A list of self-organizing systems.
Sensemaking
Sensemaking - A primer on the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences.
Co-Creation
Co-Creation Systems - Systems, models, tools for co-creation
Decentralized Financing
SEEDS
- SEEDS - An overview of the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Changemakers to Citizens Pilot Program - An ambassador program to onboard changemakers to SEEDS Citizens.
- SEEDS Changemaker Guide - A Changemaker's guide to participating in the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Glossary - A glossary of key terms in the SEEDS ecosystem.
- SEEDS Roadmap - An overview of the future of SEEDS.
- SEEDS FAQ - Frequently asked questions.
- SEEDS Gratitude - An overview of the innovative gratitude system in SEEDS.
- Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies - A framework for ecosystem building based on Theory U.
Resources
Glossary - Terms that define the co-creation of a world of mutuality