for: SONEC, neighborhood circles, downscaled planetary boundaries, earth system boundaries, community governance, neighborocracy, neighbourhood parliament

title: SoNeC: Sociocratic Neighbourhood Circles in Europe

• Barbara Sirauch
• Rita Mayrhofer

collaborators

• Maria-Juliana Byck
• Orsolya Lelkes
• Johannes Zimm
• Pia Haerlinger
• Naya Tselepi
• Nathaniel Whitestone

summary

• SONEC offers a framework for relocalization of the economy but it will require very careful planning to create the right conditions for the emergence of local wellbeing economies.
• One of the leverage points is the cosmolocal nature of SONEC, allowing the rapid, global sharing of good and best practices
• This will be important because if SONEC is to reach its potential to awaken the sleeping giant of citizens to drive the necessary changes to mitigate the worst of the current existential polylcrisis, we will need a global synchronization of collective action at the local level.