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Wuhuuu!! It's [#ethcc](https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlphaRound?src=hashtag_click) again, and [@giveth.lens](https://twitter.com/Giveth) launched its first-ever QF round! Be part of this historic moment and support Urbánika, the SolarPunkGuild fellows + friends. You just need a 5 point Gitcoin Passport and you can donate through different chains such as Gnosis, @optimism.lens, @polygon.lens and obvs @ethereum.lens! Below you can find the list of projects we 💖 participating in this QF round: @urbanika.lens 🎓 [https://bit.ly/Giveth2Urbanika](https://t.co/bwhIeDceVM) LunCoSim 🌚 [https://giveth.io/project/lunco-robotics-engineering](https://t.co/qeuKgdTT2i) Agroforest DAO 🌱 [https://giveth.io/project/agroforestdao](https://t.co/rrk6IaiSJ0) Gravity DAO 🫂 [https://giveth.io/project/gravity-dao](https://t.co/DvRVpoZNZe) @metafam.lens 🐙 [https://giveth.io/project/metagame-0](https://t.co/PoEWBAVjTJ) @commons.lens 🏗️ [https://giveth.io/project/commons-stack](https://t.co/ABWaWCmJ2T) TEC 🤓 [https://giveth.io/project/token-engineering-commons](https://t.co/z5J77Un1OL) @dappnode.lens 💻 [https://giveth.io/project/dappnode](https://t.co/IXfWyDQ16Y) Trusted Seed 🎟️ [https://giveth.io/project/trusted-seed-unconference](https://t.co/fbUdqJI4zt) Follow the Black Hare 🎮[https://giveth.io/project/follow-the-black-hare](https://t.co/8cYA1gSCDt) Grassroots Economics 🧮 [https://giveth.io/project/grassroots-economics-community-currency-0](https://giveth.io/project/grassroots-economics-community-currency-0) Did I mention you get $GIV for every donation you make? This is a Positive-Sum game! Last thing. Remember, it's an Alfa round. If you find bugs or errors, report them [https://giveth.typeform.com/issue-bug](https://t.co/6juWqAksJ5) The Giveth team is next level on taking care of its community. #LFGrow! <span className="hidden"> This post is included in the ethcc round (0xa2ae8421776035c398c22e143290697da09d19d7) at quadraticlenster.xyz </span>
After teaching Urbánika's course on PostCapitalism and Blockchain to various individuals and collectives, we've collected valuable feedback. This has helped us refine our focus to areas where we can make the most regenerative impact: Neighborhoods. 🏘️🌳🐕👨🏾‍👩🏻‍👧🏼‍👦🏾 This aligns perfectly with the exciting news that, thank to the support from y'all via @gitcoin #BetaRound, we've raised over $18K. These funds will buy a bus that we will convert into the world's first mobile postcapitalist web3 school. 🚨Get ready for a MEGA thread where we'll share our journey of building the traveling school and the new course! Anticipate a months-long thread filled with emotions, challenges, and triumphs. Buckle up and join us on this exciting voyage! Our dream: train 800 neighbors in using @gnosisSafe, @Giveth, & @gitcoin for treasury & fundraising, @CharmVerse for governance & @GravityDAO for conflict resolution, all in the sphere of neighborhood collaboration. Where? 80 neighborhoods across 40 cities in 20 🌎countries. -- **Phases for 🚌&📚** ✍Trip planning & prep, 🚧Building , ✅Live testing, 🏠🔗🏠Neighborhood Commoning as a DAO, 🫂Network support, 🌄Federation and Expansion. -- **✍Trip planning & prep milestones** 🪪Bus driving license & plates 📨Invitation campaign to neighborhoods and city councils 🛣️Central America route planning 🚢Panamá crossing -- **🚧Building milestones** 🚌: 💲Buy 🏗️Adapt 📚: 💭Syllabus 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼Alliances ✍🏽Content 🔎Review 👌🏽Deliver -- **✅Live testing milestones** 🛏️Living in it 🛣️Driving it to 2 pilot neighborhoods 👨🏽‍🏫Introductory workshop with the bus -- **🏠🔗🏠Neighborhood Commoning as a DAO milestones** Graduating the neighboors of the same... 🛣️ Street into [street name_neighborhood] DAO, 🕋City block into [cityblock_neighborhood] DAO, 🏘️Neighborhood into [neighborhood] DAO, ... City district, ... Municipality, ... BioRegion. -- **🫂Network support milestones** 🏠Social Network (Web3 Nextdoor) 🗞️P2P Media generation 💸Fundraising services ⚙️Commons Creator (facilitation service to turn neighborhood needs into self-managed initiatives that become human-nature ecoservices) ☎️Regen Solution directory -- **🌄Federation and Expansion** Neighborhood DAO as a service Neighborhood-based AI agents with digital twins Public policy coordination/intervention by the DAOs Political representation Chamber of the Commons (commerce) All the above is the current complete vision for Urbánika. We are still 🕰️, 💰,👥, and🫱🏾‍🫲🏼away to reach every milestone, but hey!, it's the roadmap we want to drive on🌎🛣️🚌 From this point on, we are going to post about our progress on each Phase and Milestone. So stay tuned!
**Urbánika is in the top 20 of @gitcoin.lens' Climate Solutions.** We are **7 people short to r**each the top 10. Why does this matter? If we reach the top 10 we might **get enough matching funds to reach our goal:** **Equip 300 changemakers from 40 cities and 20 LATAM countries.** **How? Delivering the first traveling school about PostCapitalism, Blockchain, and AI in the world!!** **Imagine the following:** A school bus arriving to your neighborhood's park... **During the week**, workshops are facilitated about crafting seedbombs, opening and managing DAOs, opening a Gitcoin passport, and the importance of @lensprotocol vs proprietary social media, and so on. **During the weekend**, meetups are organized with music and neighborhood management topics, discussing about the street's issues and the ideal neighborhood they would love to live in. **During the nights**, a movie is projected about provocative topics such as land grabbing, natural capital theft, and many others. After the movie, a discussion session goes on and ends with commitments to take action regarding the topic discussed. We are addressing the metacrises by equipping changemakers with the knowledge and tools to build the futures they want to live in. Pls read our cause, if it resonates with you drop us null in ETH, that's enough to help making this traveling school a reality. https://bit.ly/Gitcoin2Urbanika
**Unpopular opinion:** **Post-Capitalist education has more positive impact on climate than carbon offsetting. The meta-crisis is ontological.** Let's start with the root of the problem: Did you know that economic growth leads us, one way or another, to higher energy demand? This means that for a country's economy to maintain its growth, it needs to increase its energy consumption. **What's the problem, we just need an energy transition to renewables, right?** Wrong. Although renewables are the future. In the face of unlimited growth, there is no energy that is enough. Here are 4 limitations: **Constraint 1**: Even the largest renewable energy source is not enough. 🌞Solar energy is the resource with the greatest potential, some authors say that the Sun sends us 8 thousand times the human energy consumption. But these authors are leaving aside all physical, chemical and natural understanding... Other authors include chemical, physical and natural factors in their calculation and consider that... the maximum uptake potential would only cover 40% of our current consumption. **Limitation 2:** Replacing the CURRENT fossil infrastructure with a renewable energy infrastructure requires the use of materials that are not sufficiently available. 🗒️Recent studies show that even adding the probability of finding new deposits of each material, the Earth's composition does not have enough lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, tellurium, copper, and platinum, among 7 other essential elements. This is without contemplating the ecological devastation of exploiting all these materials.... But, even in the hypothetical scenario that the availability of materials exists to meet our current demand, it would take decades to extract them due to the peak extraction effect. And by that time, we will need even more.... The higher the growth, the higher the demand, remember? Are you starting to see the point? Total substitution to meet current demand is not possible, and future demand? certainly not! **Constraint 3**: Renewable energy production of any kind - photovoltaic cells, wind turbines, and even hydroelectric power plants - depends on fossil energy consumption. 🏗️From the extraction of the necessary material, through the manufacture of parts, transportation, to the commissioning and maintenance of the generators, fossil fuels are used. This one will surprise you! Constraint 4: Electricity consumption has been declining since 2008. Why? One of many factors is that replacing current machines with electric models requires materials whose reserves...don't exist! In short, it must be understood that unlimited economic growth and carbon offsetting are not enough. 💯Yes, the planet needs an energy transition, but real change is not only achieved with technology, but with better lifestyles and a re-understanding of our relationship with nature. **What now?** It's your turn. Change starts with you and your community. Understanding and adopting a post-Capitalist vision is much more beneficial to the planet than offsetting your current consumption. **Learn, apply and enjoy at https://urbanika.notion.site/** With our immersive courses you will learn how to create a commons and how to use exponential technologies in an ethical way and with a positive impact on the planet. **Want to go deeper?** @hbesso31.lens offers a close accompaniment for groups of 5 people or more. Includes: -live sessions, -certificate of learning, -funding tips on @gitcoin.lens and @giveth.lens, -and connection with other change agents. **How much does it cost?** Your commitment and word of honor to take the knowledge and apply it in your community. If you value what we do at Urbánika, any donations to our Giveth and Gitcoin campaigns are welcome and appreciated. **Want to know more about #DeGrowth, #postCapitalism and energy transition?** This video in Spanish shared by United Species DAO is a gem that explains it in simple words but with a lot of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ab2iONiJtc
**Are you looking to make a bulk payment through a multisig?** We just went through the distribution of funds from @gitcoin.lens, and as we are in a bundle, we received funds into a multisig. So how did we distribute all funds into each member paying for a single transaction instead of many?? Step 1: Turn the amount you are going to distribute to each address into UINT256. How? 👇🏽 In a Calculator Sheets -as Libre Calc, Google Sheets, or whatever other provider you have, input the following formula: =L4*10^18 Replace L4 with the field you want to calculate In our case, we have in L4 the DAI amount to distribute to Urbánika, and L5 to another project, and so on. So we just took the above formula down to quickly calculate the UINT256 of each project. Step 2: Have the addresses at hand! If they are signers, you'll find them in the Address Book section within the left panel of your multisig wallet (at least in Gnosis' SAFE one). Open a new window of the SAFE and select the APPS section. Then look for Transaction Builder. Step 3: Read this tutorial for details on how to use this dApp https://help.safe.global/en/articles/4680071-transaction-builder Step 4: Ask your signing peers and enjoy the distribution of funds! 🙂
¡todo bien, valentina! is my first mostly spanish track. it was so fun to make, it was definitely made on a whim which I think makes it even cooler! the song is about having fun and learning to accept that the little things in life sometimes have to be enough, not every day is going to be a party, we have to learn to value everything that makes life...life!
**Retroactive funding means a lot to us.** To be among others that we admire was already a gift. Today, we woke up with another gift from you @ethereum.lens, @dorg_tech.lens, and @dao_drops.lens Thank you from the bottom of our hearts 💖 Thanks for supporting people doing good ✊🏽 Congrats to @giveth.lens @metafam.lens @carlosjmelgar.lens and others who got blessed too If you want to access the educational content we were retroactively funded, check it out at https://urbanika.notion.site/ it's free and takes you 5 min a day to equip yourself with knowledge and tools to shape your city for good! 🌻😉
Are you tired of relying on external authorities to make decisions that affect your community? Do you believe in the power of self-governance and decentralized societies? If so, you won't want to miss this post on peer governance. 👇🏽🌱🧠 Whether you're a web3 governance nerd or a changemaker at heart, this post is for you. **What is Peer Governance?** It's a concept that's gaining momentum in today's world, and it's worth exploring. David Bollier, an activist, author, and blogger specialized on postCapitalism and the commons, defines peer governance as "the capacity of a community to govern itself through the participation of its members." In other words, it's a way for people to come together and make decisions that affect their community. **Why is it important?** Well, for starters, it empowers people to take control of their own lives. It allows communities to create their own rules and regulations, rather than relying on external authorities. This can lead to greater autonomy and self-sufficiency, as well as a stronger sense of community. We, the people, have lost the knowledge to self-manage, we delegate the faith of our lives and planet to a few. @hbesso31.lens reflected some months ago, that **allowing an external body to create and enforce rules for a community without enabling effective direct participation is a form of slavery.** **Web3 builds for distributed societies.** Peer governance is about understanding we have the capacity to self-manage, that we have the tools to do so, and every time more ways of achieving this happens. **The obstacle is not technological but in acknowledging and learning how to become a commoner.** **An example** One real-life example of a community applying peer governance is the open-source software movement. This is a community of developers who create software that is freely available to anyone who wants to use it. Instead of relying on a single company or entity to control the software, the community as a whole is responsible for its development and maintenance. This allows for greater innovation and collaboration, as well as a more democratic approach to software development. When open software has a governance based on peers, i.e., on a community of stewards, then is no longer a public good, but a commons! Check our previous posts to learn the difference 😉 **How can I start using peer governance?** The first step is to educate yourself on the concept and its potential benefits. From there, look for opportunities to get involved in your own community. This could mean testing consent instead of consensus in a local meeting within your DAO, co-op, or on the next event that you attend AND you can facilitate this as a test, with trusted partners that enable you and everyone to learn by doing. Learn, from this 1-min video of a conversation with an alien, what is peer-governance: **https://youtu.be/IzFD_Cdp9v4**
A peer-based society will only happen if we get out of our comfort zone within this neoFeudalism we live in and give our time to try and support decentralized and distributed protocols, interfaces, methodologies. I just signed the Glass Manifesto and got early access to claim The Glass Pass. See you on @glassxyz.lens : https://glass.xyz/manifesto Let's make it happen!
**Welcome back to our journey into the #Commonsverse!** Today we will go through the rest of the categories mapped by David Bollier in The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking. If you missed the other two parts, here you can find them: Part 1: https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x019ce8-0x02 Part 2: https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x019ce8-0x10 **What the heck is the Commonsverse? 🤔** It is a huge network of shared initiatives that work together to meet people's needs through mutual aid and peer governance. **🐾 Life itself as a Commons.** Movements and thinking that recognizes the rich “symphony of relationships” and interdependencies—which is the very point of commoning. Follow: David Sloan Wilson and Michael Tomassello **🥰 Care Work.** While markets offer "human care" for a price, a genuine care can only be brough through authentic affection, trust, and reciprocal commitment. Commoning is about genuinely caring about the Commons. Look for: the Buurtzorg model **💰 Alternative currencies.** These help communities capture and recirculate value created within their space, while preventing the outside economy from taking it away. Some research says that community currencies help retain and increase value within these communities up to 8x more than national currencies. Follow: Circles UBI **⏰ Timebanking.** A service-barter system for people to exchange an hour of services given for an hour of services needed. It helps meet needs and build social connections. Look for: a local one! **📚 Open access scholarly journals.** More than 16,000 academic and scientific journals equalize access to knowledge by makeing research free to read, copy, and share in perpetuity. Loof for: https://plos.org/ and https://doaj.org/ **📜 Licenses for Sharing Knowledge.** Creative Commons and others have spawned vast repositories of legally shareable content, fighting the criminalization of sharing. For example: Urbánika's license is under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ **🤝🏽 Peer Production.** The rise of the Internet has shown the power of networked collaboration, aka as peer production. Look for: a local FabLab or Makerspace in your city. Wanna inspiration? Look how a house can be peer-produced cosmolocally: https://www.wikihouse.cc/ **🛠 Platform cooperatives**. Commoners are devising peer-owned “platform cooperatives" to empower users while thwarting online monopolies and data surveillance. Enter: https://platform.coop/ These are just a few examples of the countless individual initiatives in the Commonsverse, each committed in its own fashion to meeting needs through mutual aid and peer governance. 💬 Did you like this post? You'll love more the book! Give it a read for free or buy it here: https://commonerscatalog.org/buy-the-catalog It is a compendium of initiatives from each of these categories. We are just giving you a hint on the things that are possible within a postCapitalist way of living. **🏁Challenge time!🏁** 👉🏽Virtual: Look for a digital timebanking initiative and join! 👉🏽 IRL: Teach a family member or friend about what you learned and share with us the experience! Finally, please ♥ and mirror this post so others get to know about the #Commonsverse and that different futures are possible!!
Are you a #PublicGoods advocate? This article is for you! Today we'll explain in under 2 min why we all got wrong the "Public Goods" narrative, and how can we rephrase it to build better worlds 👇🏽 https://mirror.xyz/urbanika.eth/EaCBteNZZ-hbJTBkERvYcORdQralhUA7sN5TLAudYzk
**GM PostCapitalist adventurers!** Let's build together our future. **Imagine this…** In a post-capitalist world, poverty is a thing of the past. Education is free and open to everyone, and healthcare is too. Money has been rethought and is now called Carings. Carings are earned by taking care of the city, its living inhabitants, and the services that make everything run for everyone. At each building, park, or neighborhood, there are Contribution boards that hold opportunities for people to take and earn Carings. The city makes decisions based on neighborhood assemblies. Neighbors gather in their local makerspace to propose, debate, and deliberate the creation, improvement, or maintenance of services that guarantee the well-being of all living beings. Every building produces food and clean air in the most beautiful way. Aesthetics and functionality are part of every element. The city is a beautiful garden of life. The world is no longer dominated by corporations, but by self-managed cities and communities that work together to tackle the problems we face. Technology has advanced to the point where it has fused with spirituality, and we are now able to connect with Gaia in ways never thought possible. SolarPunks initiated the movement that took us here. We have evolved as a species able to account for more than one metric. We have taken the step equivalent to the Neanderthals realizing that there were numbers beyond 20 or the invention of the Zero. This step forward has led us to design a relationalized finance, which means our economy is based on the mutual relations we have with each living system and resource. We have oracles all over the world that feed our accounting system in ways that reflect human creation and sharing of knowledge, as well as planetary health. We have understood that we are Gaia’s pollinators of life. People on Earth take care of Gaia while those in space seed life on other planets. The Galactic Federation has been seeding life throughout the cosmos for 20 years now. Cities, both on Gaia and in space, are designed to be self-sufficient, with renewable energy sources and locally sourced food. Inhabitants have a say in how their cities are run. There is no pyramidal hierarchy as in the past. We have evolved from democracy to peer governance through the use of blockchain, AI, and commoning. Our society is no longer focused on individual wealth accumulation. In fact, there’s a demurrage that penalizes not circulating the Carings. Our society is equitable and just for all living beings. What you call the more-than-human world is all one now. Animals, trees, fungi, and humans work together to solve problems and address societal issues of all. Inequality and poverty are only taught in history classes. Our world is not perfect. We still have many issues to solve. Medicine is now concerned with providing and increasing well-being for every living being. New challenges come from that. There are still robo-nimals that were created during the XXI century that are de-harmonizing entire ecosystems, we have found some extractivist species that make us remember of our inmature times, we still do not know how to proceed with them. The Federation Congress now takes in consideration the point of view of every creature. Understanding their needs, and making sure every proposal leaves no one behind are just a few of the challenges we face today. However, we are happy, healthy, and feel fulfilled in giving our time and souls into making every day a better day for all. What future are you building, my friend? One of our towns is very similar to the lovely piece Nusa Stiglitz created and named "SolarPunk City" available in Artstation
📅Tomorrow we will start a series of posts **exclusively for the Lens community**🥰 We will write about the **top 30 global societal problems** we face today and turn them **into short stories** told from the perspective of a future protopia. The goal is that we can start imagining the future we want to live in. The stories will not be perfect, but we aim to spark the imagination of others to collectively compose the story of our lives. **Remember:** *The future cannot be predicted, but it can be built.*
1/ We went to **ETH Guatemala**, and we want to share with you some things that left us very happy: 👀 What was Ethereum Guatemala 🏆 Our 3 favorite conferences 🤝🏽 Organization ☝🏽 Important lessons 🙊 Surprise 2/ **We can summarize ETH Guatemala as:** 🤝🏽 Close and constant meetings between Latino change makers. 👏🏽 The debut of the Ethereum community in this Central American country. 🥰 The best treatment we have received at a conference. 3/ It was difficult to choose among so many very good ones. They all taught us something. Here our 3 favorites and the minutes where they appear: 🌱💸**EthicHub** 1:45:23 🔐📜**Legal Smart Contracts** 4:11:22 🐾🕊**United Species DAO** 4:43:50 You can stream them here (Spanish only)👉🏽: https://youtu.be/4qcVQZEy7Dg?t=6321 4/ Thank you from all our heart to @marcus.lens, DnznJuan.eth, Anton Z, EsteChejo Art, LuisKikeGatica, @avectats.lens, Francis Sanchinelli, liquidfy.eth, and to everyone who contributed to making this event happen! These cracks managed to make ETH Guatemala in only 1 month and a half of preparation, and also, they treated us as if we were family or close friends. Thank you very much! 5/ Finally, a surprise: During our conference https://youtu.be/_5hUCyaILJU we opened Alpha access to ETH Guatemala attendees 🎁🎉. If you didn't attend, don't worry in the next weeks we will make an announcement to open the course to everyone 🌎😉.
Are you ready for a journey into the #Commonsverse? part 2 The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking by @DavidBollier is a collection of tools and knowledge for the inevitable transition to a regenerative post-capitalist way of living. Agenda for this post: 1. What is the Commons. 2. The Commonsverse part 1 of 3. 3. Actions to transition into a regenerative postCapitalist way of living.
The Commoners Catalog for Changemaking by @DavidBollier is an indispensable guide with 25 thematic sections that share vital tools for the transitions ahead. Through weekly we will cover them all! Ready?!
@gitcoin.lens champs, send ur frens that do not know yet how to donate, ReFi Spring is giving a 1 hr training about this here: It just started! https://t.co/DDL5zXv1jb