One Small Town

Small Towns where business, community and commons are cooperatively owned

Posted by John Burns on April, 30, 2022

Last updated: February, 22, 2025

1 likes

Ras Al Matn, قضاء بعبدا, Lebanon

We are launching One Small Town in Ras El Matn, Lebanon and Kuruman, South Africa. First of hundreds of communities embracing a cooperative ecosystem. 40 to 50 businesses all cooperatively owned, locally generated community energy, free use of goods and services via contributing your time.

The community is engaging a complete digital economy with many tools and services on the blockchain along with social tokens and NFTs tied to actual businesses and art work.

Tool

Doughnut Principles of Practice

A PDF of the Doughnut Principles of Practice ready to print

Posted by the DEAL Team

Member

Dudley Boden

Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, United States

I am a former CEO of a private company manufacturing capital goods for the steel industry. While I have lived and benefitted from the growth mindset, since retiring I have been searching for a movement that can start to change the way our society works. My focus had been on politics but every where I looked at political movements I saw such firmly entrenched opposition to change that I could not see a way to start change that could be successful. After reading "Donought Economics" my eyes were opened to the possibility of focusing on economic change with the many small ways that grass roots efforts could make change develop from the bottom up. I still believe that political change is necessary but with an economic movement developing momentum political change may become inevitable.

Comments

Post Comment

1 comment

John Burns about 4 years ago

The One Small Town model incorporates a new economic system I have called Torus Economics.. It is predicated on the Torus Exchange of townspeople labour building sustainable businesses and community services. The Torus is a doughnut of energy and the quality of the vibrations generated by the Torus Exchange through monitoring using Doughnut Economic tools gives us a real clinical practicum opportunity to apply revolutionary systems and technology.

1 0

One Small Town

Contents

Comments

Join the DEAL Community!

One Small Town

Contents

Tools this story is based on

Members inspired by this story

Comments

Join the DEAL Community!