Well. First I look at names. To understand people, you can take their names and understand them too. 

First step is finding the roots of their names which take a while. What i do is some sort of pythagorean addition with the amount of syllables and letters of the names and i begin to add them in a way that makes sense for what i'm trying to figure of the person. Most times, I reach the "ibarra" of their personalities. ;D

I love Bertrand Russell btw. I studied Philosophy of Law and Conflict resolution in San Francisco, and he is my oracle when seeking inspiration for thoughts on human rights.

I'll tell you this. The best advice ive gotten is this: Nothing is a coincidence.

That is, organize your life, and you will begin to see that its not words that make your life, but your life that creates the world. For as long as you think, you will be able to shape your destination as you please. In the end, things will line up in sequence... like numbers.

Hi Ferananda!

Thanks for your message. Yes It can read english. It's nice you read french!

You're the first person to write me on this social network and this is my first message too.

I think I'll have a nice day. I wish you too.

Hola FerAnanda... ya casi dos meses desde ese mágico encuentro. Me ha sido muy difícil contactarte, pero no quiero otra cosa que insistir. Te comento que en la U ya estoy abriendo el camino para posicionar el proyecto de co-inteligencia y ética integrativa. Quería contartelo porque se lo ocupada que andas y de tu interés por este tema. Las posibilidades de tener unas chalas en Web Conferencia para el nuevo grupo de amigos con los que estoy iniciando el trabajo son cada vez mejores. De hecho, podríamos pensarlo para primera semana de septiembre. Acabo de enviarle un mensaje a JF para ver su disposición y disponibilidad.

  Siempre estaré muy agradecido contigo y con todos por la experiencia tan maravillosa y significativa que fué Tepoztlán para el futuro de nuestro paisito. Abrazo siempre fraterno y espero uan respuesta.

The risk before

Desperation

Turns into fascism and xenophobia

and easily into war

COMMUNITY CURRENCIES

The monetary system after the Great Transition is a relatively uninteresting, almost technical, discussion. We have already very solid proposals for alternatives to the Fractional Reserve Banking system.

http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/towards-a-21st-century-banking-and-monetary-system

http://www.transaction.net/money/book/

http://beyondmoney.net/

http://www.monetary.org/

With respect electronic money, proposals of crypto-currencies are blooming. They are mostly wrong in the vey roots. They propose crypto-coins for the global market, like an electronic gold. We do not need more money for the global casino of whatever nature. 90% of the trade will be local. Mr. Manolito, the gachupin of the shop around the corner, does not need this 124 bit secure encryption. The only issue worth discussing is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) approach of the meta information of the electronic money, so that all wallets can manage all electronic currencies. Its a question of interoperability. Some proposals already exist, like the Ricardian contract and the INTERNET-DRAFT Ko Fujimura XML Voucher: Generic Voucher Language.

For me, the only relevant discussion is about the Community Currencies and the Monetary System model we need to pump solidarity to the poor before the transition.

This is the area I am working on.

http://desperado-theory.blogspot.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/desperadostheory/

And this is the area I would be very happy to discuss.

Localizations

A.- Production

• By 2050, minirobots, ultra-automation, 3D printing, self-growing materials make many local industries very efficient. DO IT YOURSELFhas now a 30% of all production (your clothes, your furniture, your tableware, your configured Electric Vehicle)

• By 2050, most population has returned from big Macro-cities to medium size agro-urban conglomerates. Vertical Automated Farming controlled by bio-ICT provide local food; taking also care of recycling of water.

B.- Distribution

By 2050, intermediaries about to disappear. Robotized EV of all sizes take the teleshopping home.

C.- Finances

By 2050, all money has become crypto money. Global crypto money is only used for mayor investments. All M1 money is regional, local and even by sector (Energy, Agriculture, etc). Payments done through the phone. Most loans are local, associated to local interests, and raised as P2Pcloud-funding.

D.- Democracy

By 2050, most of the GDP is local, so that Gross Domestic Wealth discussions engage now everybody. eDemocracy has multiplied citizens participation in policy to 10% of their time; eDemocracy and Social Networking have become undistinguishable.

THE GREAT TRANSITION

The means for the Great Transition (the way the New Economics Foundation names it) will, at the end, be political. A party o parliamentary coalition will need to win elections at each country to make it become law with full democratic legitimacy.

In most countries, the Great Transition will require a constitutional change. A referendum will need to be formulated and won. 

First of all, thank you very much for this invitation to share ideas. Normally, I wait prudently to understand the community I am joining to dear before expressing any first opinion. Blame Ferananda for my audacy.

LOCALISATION OF ECONOMY

By 2050 the tendency to globalization has turned into a tendency to localization. This will have the principle of subsidiarity at its heart. In political terms, subsidiarity is widely accepted as meaning that everything is best decided and implemented closest to the people who will be affected. In economical terms it means that by 2050 the appropriate size for industries, resilience and permeability towards have reversed the economies of scale to make local much more efficient.

Conditions/drivers

• By 2050 petrol has become extremely scarce and can only be used in special cases (Space Rockets, manufacturing of some materials); transport of heavy goods is very expensive. Sea transport is done by kite-vessels.

• By 2050 ITERis still not operational for mass production, electricity is also very expensive, except electricity produced by local renewables or micro-renewables; long distance earth transport of heavy goods is very expensive even for Electric Vehicles (trains).

• Some dramatic climate change disasters (Venice under the waters?) have finally made mandatory a tax on all products that includes all life-cycle costs, including waste and recycling. Recycling cannot be done in the third world.

• Political demand for more equality pushes towards gains in local control.

What remains global

• some industrial productions (chips, pharmaceutics, large solar air-globes) remain global or continental (EV motor-wheels, large kite sea transport vessels, electronic instrumentation)

• information remains global: knowledge building, open science, digital libraries, engineering, design, social networking. Hyper-presence has reduced the need to travel.

Hola Ferananda, gracias por tu mensaje.

Yes, I already met Jean-François. Very inspiring person, isn't it?

And yes, in the future I would appreciate to collaborate with CIRI. But we must start walking before running ;-)

Hasta pronto...

Hola Ferananda!

Sorry, estoy apenas empezando, soy mas que novicia en el tema...por el momento! :p participaré a un taller a principios de julio sobre CNV, te podre comunicar las super pistas que descubra a esa ocasion. Me lo recuerdas?? :) gracias por tu mensaje y hasta pronto! :)

Hello Ferananda,

Thank you for your interest in the astrology. To answer your question the astrology changes radically the idea that you have about the time and space. First you understand the time is just another dimension of space and then you understand that the space is not only quantified but, above all, qualified. Any space-time is qualified by the position of the observer and the energies going around in this place. Then you realize the diferent layers of the reality are fractals, from the most material realm to the most spiritual, you have the same patterns repeatinq at each level. You understand as well that any entity (person, cat, nation, music band...) is qualified according to the configuration of energies at the time of birth. It is so huge that it would take me hours to explain this correctly, so ask me any question and I will try to answer precisely and clearly. You can find me on Skype at florianventura. Anytime you want. Best regards. Florian Ventura.