Project Ideas

Imagine there was an alternate currency to Money which knew where every dollar was sourced. Would you give a discount to people who are not exploiting the environment or people in the 3rd world, would you like to buy things knowing the business who will profit is not partaking in something you don’t believe is right.

Modern Internet and computer systems now have the ability to trace the path of value exchange so why don’t we consider following the money.

Do the businesses pay a fair tax, is there international manipulation and tax avoidance occurring ?.

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I contend that most so called Climate Change “Skeptics” are not in fact skeptical of their own knowledge. Many are basically propagating, usually regurgitating, already dis-proven arguments normally created from a position of ignorance.

These people stalk the environmental debates online and persist in misleading people with poor claims, sowing doubt and causing people to waste there time. Unlike in the real world of society, we don’t have the opportunity to  take them to account,  question there reputation and disempower them in there anti-social practices. They just turn up on another blog or in another letter to the editor time and time again, with little chance they will ever have to make account of their often absurd claims.

Can we do anything about it ?

One idea is to build a website that lists and when possible tracks the activities of there people and there pseudonyms this has the following benefits;

• Provide a resource to use against them when you fall upon their bad behavior
• Alert you to there bias and possible vested interests
• Provide matching search strings so others searching for them stumble upon “the registry” and get to see the activity of listed skeptics.
• Provide links to and advice on locating rebuttals to their claims.
• Record their claims and statements so they can be used against them at a future time and place – thus imparting some consequences for there claims.

This site would not aim to replace strong skeptic and denier rebuttal sites but to support them in their good work.

Some features of the site;

• Gradual documentation of both skeptical and rebuttal sites
• Moderated crowd sourced site
• Since Skeptical sites rarely mention the rebuttal sites we will only list them in image form and not grant them additional Search engine advantages.
• Can we embed the text they place in there posts in our site for a search engine to find but not display it on our site only links to the rebuttals ? We don’t want to be a resource for the skeptics.

My idea is to plan a meetup where people attending bring others who are at least once removed from their usual networks. The idea is you always bring someone you know who has not been before. Except for the organiser(s) repeat visits to the network group are only permitted if you bring a ticket – the ticket is someone who has never come before.

I wish to do this in the Sustainability space yet don’t want it to influence who comes.

The above idea is based on some knowledge of building social networks. The simple premise would be that each person provides a short summary of there interests, endeavors and past and present occupations. The meeting is then left open for people to circulate and pursue what ever interests them. Attendance brings membership, rewards and resources.

The development of training material for Activists trying to communicate complex issues and concerns that are hard to communicate given the potential to generate fear or receive push back when perceived to be threatening to a persons world view.

Primarily established to promote action on climate change these materials should be of assistance to all activists trying to promote ideas for which society has natural tendencies to resist. Of course the strength and validity of arguments will be limited to the subject at hand.

This is an initiative spawned from the 2012 Climate action summit 2012 and a partnership between Tony Muscio Cases.org.au and the Parramatta Climate action network. Based on some wonderful ideas and material from presenters at the Climate summit we see the possibility of empowering Activists of great benefit in current times.

Project overview

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