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

• title: SoNeC: Sociocratic Neighbourhood Circles in Europe

• date: 2022
• authors:
  • 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.

Das EU-Parlament hat die vorgesehenen strengeren ökologischen Vorschriften für Agrarsubventionen verändert. So ist der Erhalt von Subventionen nicht mehr daran geknüpft, dass 4% der bebaubaren Fläche brach liegen. .https://taz.de/EU-und-Ampel-geben-Bauernprotesten-nach/!6004784/

Greta Thunberg und andere AktivistInnen blockieren das schwedische Parlament vor der Sitzung zur Aufnahme Schwedens in die NATO. Sie protestieren gegen die Untätigkeit Schwedens in der Klimakrise. Die aktuelle Politik der konservativen und von den Rechtsradikalen unterstützten Regierung wird die Emissionen weiter steigern. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/11/greta-thunberg-climate-protest-blocking-swedish-parliament

In der EU versuchen Konservative in einem Bündnis mit der extremen Rechten, das neue Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung von Naturräumen im Plenum des Europaparlaments endgültig scheitern zu lassen. Der Guardian stellt diese Politik in den Kontext einer breiter angelegten Anti-Klimapolitik der europäischen Konservativen und Rechten.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/03/the-guardian-view-on-europes-green-deal-blowing-in-the-wind?

Mit einem weitreichenden Gesetz hat das EU-Parlament den Emissionshandel auf große Sektoren ausgeweitet, die Bestimmungen zu Zertifikaten verschärft und Abgaben für Importeaus Ländern mit niedrigeren CO2-Preisen beschlossen. https://taz.de/Massive-Ausweitung-des-Emissionshandels/!5929146/

Das EU-Parlament hat verboten, Produkte zu importieren, für die Wälder abgeholzt wurden. Derzeit ist die EU für 16% der globalen Entwaldung verantwortlich. Bei der Umsetzung des neuen Gesetzes spielen die Kontrollen eine entscheidende Rolle. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/cafe-cacao-bois-le-parlement-europeen-vote-sur-linterdiction-dimporter-des-produits-issus-de-la-deforestation-20230419_6JGCIZ364ZF7XEDXQ7ATBCK7WI/

Das Parlament und die Staaten der europäischen Union haben beschlossen, eine CO2-Abgabe an den Grenzen zu erheben. Sie wird nicht ganz korrekt oft als CO2 Steuer bezeichnet und verteuert Importe von CO2 intensiven Gütern.

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Mithering about the unmodellable

Mithering about the unmodellable. "Sometime late last year I went to the Euro IA conference with Anya and Silver to give a talk on the domain modelling work we've been doing in UK Parliament."

Edmund Burke was a British statesman, political thinker, and Parliamentary orator who was active in the major political issues occurring in Britain in 1785. He was part of the controversy between King George III and Parliament, who, he believed, were attempting to exert too much control over the executive. He argued that though the king's actions did not legally defy the constitution, they went against the constitution in spirit. Similarly, during the American imperial crisis, Burke argued that the British government's treatment of the colonies followed the letter of the law, but lacked consistency and respect for the colonies' claims.

As a Whig Parliamentarian, Burke supported Americans grievances against Great Britain, especially in the area of taxation. However, he criticized the French Revolution for being destructive to society.

John Wilkes became a Member of Parliament in 1757, where he advocated for the right of voters, rather than the House of Commons, in choosing their representatives, and began pushing for parliamentary reform in 1776. In 1771, Wilkes, in support of Almon, convinced the government to allow printers the right to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. He further supported the Patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War, making him more popular among Whigs.

The House of Commons is the lower house of the British Parliament. Members of the Commons were elected. Over the course of the eighteenth century, the House of Commons gained more and more power. Chamber of the House of Commons, Westminster Palace, London

We should look no further than the European Parliament when wondering whether the ISDS is an effective system for dispute resolution!

Could the colonies have declined to take part in these acts or did they feel they needed to keep close ties with England?