{"id":30572,"date":"2018-02-06T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30572"},"modified":"2018-02-06T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:59:16","slug":"cosmo-localization-can-thinking-globally-and-producing-locally-really-save-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30572","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cosmo-Localization&#8217;: Can Thinking Globally and Producing Locally Really Save Our Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid__item  float--left  two-thirds  palm-one-whole  article__featured-image\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.ouishare.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/christopher-burns-368617-1050x700.jpg\" alt=\"christopher-burns-368617\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"post-article  js-post-gallery  grid__item  main  float--left  lap-and-up-two-thirds\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title  article__title--single\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.ouishare.net\/2017\/11\/cosmo-localization-can-thinking-globally-and-producing-locally-really-save-our-planet\/\">\u2018COSMO-LOCALIZATION\u2019: CAN THINKING GLOBALLY AND PRODUCING LOCALLY REALLY SAVE OUR PLANET?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Fablabs, makerspaces, emerging global knowledge commons\u2026 These are but some of the outcomes of a growing movement that champions globally-sourced designs for local economic activity. Its core idea is simple: local ownership of the means to produce basic manufactures and services can change our economic paradigm, making our cities self-sufficient and help the planet.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4155 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/magazine.ouishare.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sharon-ede-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"158\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharon Ede, urbanist and activist based in Australia has recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audacities.co\/\">AUDAcities<\/a>, a catalyst for relocalising production in cities. She shared her insights on the opportunities of making cities regenerative and more sustainable as well as the limits of cosmo-localization.<\/p>\n<p><b>TECHNOLOGY, AS WE ALL KNOW, IS NOT NEUTRAL. MAKING THE TRANSITION TO SELF-SUFFICIENT CITIES NEEDS A CULTURAL SHIFT, NOT JUST A TECHNOLOGICAL ONE. SO, HOW DO WE DESIGN OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS THAT FOSTER A CHANGE IN BEHAVIOURS AND ARE INCLUSIVE?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Technology will go where cultural, social and economic values direct it. A cultural shift will include open source tools, and the kinds of processes we need to create those \u2013 but a cultural shift will require much more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governments can and do play a significant role in shaping culture through policy and regulation<\/strong>, and contrary to popular belief about where innovation originates, the state is not only a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/mariana_mazzucato\"> key entrepreneurial actor<\/a> but also has a huge opportunity to reinvent itself as the<a href=\"http:\/\/commonstransition.org\/blueprint-for-a-partner-state\/\"> \u2018partner state\u2019<\/a> \u2013 where government responds to the contributory democracy we are seeing emerge as a force that does with, not for or to, the communities it serves.<strong>The technology, and who owns it, is just a manifestation of what we value.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF DEBATE ABOUT THE REAL BENEFITS OF LOCAL PRODUCTION, ESPECIALLY THAT LAST-MILE DELIVERY IS MORE HARMFUL TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN THE BENEFITS IT BRINGS. IN YOUR EXPERIENCE, WHAT IS THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF A PRODUCT THAT HAS BEEN GLOBALLY DESIGNED AND LOCALLY MANUFACTURED?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018COSMO-LOCALIZATION\u2019: CAN THINKING GLOBALLY AND PRODUCING LOCALLY REALLY SAVE OUR PLANET? Fablabs, makerspaces, emerging global knowledge commons\u2026 These are but some of the outcomes of a growing movement that champions globally-sourced designs for local economic activity. Its core idea is simple: local ownership of the means to produce basic manufactures and services can change our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[6720,18376,7871,490,18377,716,786],"class_list":["post-30572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ecological-footprint","tag-fernanda-marin","tag-local-production","tag-localization","tag-ouishare","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30573,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572\/revisions\/30573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}