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 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:
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 help.safe.global/en/articles/4680071-transaction-builder

Step 4: Ask your signing peers and enjoy the distribution of funds! 🙂

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:

**youtu.be/IzFD_Cdp9v4**

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: lenster.xyz/posts/0x019ce8-0x02
Part 2: 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: plos.org/ and 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 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: www.wikihouse.cc/

🛠 Platform cooperatives. Commoners are devising peer-owned “platform cooperatives" to empower users while thwarting online monopolies and data surveillance. Enter: 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: 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!!