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Name of member (link) |
Category |
Brief description of solution |
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Israel-Palestine conflict |
A very simple solution. Palestinians cede right to all land from the Jordan to the sea, and accept Israel as Jewish state, in return, they have full citizenship rights, refugees are compensated for lost land, and only Israeli government controls land and resources. From Aron’s Peace Blog. |
30/09/03 |
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Israel-Palestine conflict |
International city of Jerusalem governed by Jewish/Muslim/Christian council and 3-mile buffer zone controlled by UN peacekeepers. From Marla Caldwell. |
30/09/03 |
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Israel-Palestine conflict |
International community, especially the US, stop “taking sides” in conflict and support the majority will on both sides to stop the violence. From N. Todd Pritsky at Open Source Politics. |
01/10/03 |
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London Transport |
All the senior management of London Underground and the various railway companies should be obliged to work in Perspex offices in major railway or Underground stations. From Tibor Fischer, A Londoner's Diary, ES Magazine, Evening Standard, London, Sept. 26, 2003 (no link). |
03/10/03 |
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Poverty, India, Villages |
The Social Structure Couple: couples who dedicate at least five years to intensive social work in one village. From Minciu Sodas (link broken?). Credited to Umesh and Rashmi Rohatgi |
03/10/03 |
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Technology-created problems |
Ten technologies that deserve to die, by Bruce Sterling. (link requires subscription) MIT Enterprise TECHNOLOGY REVIEW -October 2003. |
04/10/03 |
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Poverty; homeless-ness |
Dignity Village in Portland Oregon, USA. An article in The Guardian describes how a group of 60 homeless people in Portland have turned a patch of land near the city's airport into a model for living and thereby transformed their lives. From the Guardian, link broken. |
25/10/03 |
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Race and religious conflicts: tension within communities |
Using “reality TV” to improve local and global human relations. Inspired by “Wife Swap”. Heads of households from conflicting communities swap places for 2 weeks and are televised, then meet to discuss outcomes. |
25/10/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts (anywhere) |
Using humour as a tool to disarm long-standing antagonisms. Widely publicised events where two comics representing communities in conflict perform together; also humour delegates to all political gatherings, tasked with making other delegates see the humour in their conflicts. |
27/11/03 |
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Communicat-ing and solving problems |
Metalanguage; or the need for Bloggers Parliament to have its own language for describing its rules. The proposal is to use love and non-violence in our dealings with each other. |
02/11/03 |
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The Prison Problem |
Ideas from Prison. Inspired by a “failed” reality show where young people were put in the role of prisoners and an equal number, randomly chosen, in the role of guards. This fostered violence between them, even though their roles were artificial. The idea is to have a reverse reality show experience, where young prisoners are placed in a Big Brother House and treated as free and respected people, with creative and caring jobs. |
Dec. 2003 |
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General problem or not stated |
Children-design-the-world conference. Online or fractal (?) Making use of “thinking tools” of Edward de Bono. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Economics; consumerism |
Buy Nothing Christmas. The name explains it and there is a website. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Communica-tion |
Using WikiSound to learn just a small but useful subset of a new language. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Technology-caused problems; environment: cars |
Think about your car. A website with tools to calculate whether you really need that car, and if it maybe costs you too much. |
Dec. 2003 |
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No problem stated |
Co-operative presents. I don’t really understand what is being proposed here. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Poverty; rural, esp. in 3rd world |
Save-some, Transform-some Agriculture. Poor farmers make more money, eliminate exploiting middle-men by 1) storing some produce to sell later when prices rise and 2) doing some post-processing (value-added) on the farm. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Poverty; rural, esp. in 3rd world |
Village-creation internships. Training programs in many areas – agriculture, linux, solar cooking – to lead to skills in building and sustaining villages. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Education |
A mixture of policy ideas. They include part-privatisation, more compulsory basic education, and education credits for higher education. |
Dec. 2003 |
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Communica-tion |
A plethora of ideas for Bloggers Parliament itself. Including closed mailing list, common site and blog-eggregation. |
Jan. 2004
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Threats |
Elimination of existing nuclear weapons and no new ones. The solution is based on one by Joseph Rotblat. |
13/10/03 |
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Economy |
Usury-free Community Currencies. Three-part set of reports from a conference on usury-free community currencies. Numerous links and books and articles referenced. Also mentions LETS computer-based scheme, and actual currencies being used in villages in UK depressed by coal-mine closures and industrial collapse. |
22/11/03 |
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Economy |
Not a solution but expands on the above, with speech by head of World Bank, link to Patricia Knox’s excerpt from a report about the Channel Islands model of debt-free money, and excerpts from 2 books The Guernsey Experiment and The Debt Virus. |
17/12/03 |
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Israel-Palestine conflict |
International community, especially the US, stop “taking sides . . . this is the same as Natalie’s post of N. Todd’s solution above (01/10/03) |
21/10/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts – general |
A peaceful world won’t happen by itself. Cross-posted from Open Source Politics. |
21/10/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts – terrorism |
William Blum, Yellow Times Org on OSP. Stop terrorism by apologising (the POTUS, that is.) |
03/11/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts – terrorism |
Terrorism is a reaction, not an action, by Dave Pollard of How to Save the World. |
24/11/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts – terrorism |
Attacking the Roots of Terror, by Howard Dean of Dean for America. |
15/12/03 |
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I did not find any solutions on the linked page |
(no date) |
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Ethics and Responsibility? |
What kind of solutions are we looking for? There does not appear to be a solutions page as such. The only link is to the above-titled essay in Open Source Ethics Blog, which appears to be under construction. |
(no date) |
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No solutions page found on the blog, only the blog, which is very nice, but does not mention BP |
(no date) |
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Roger Eaton - the solutions are in the comments; sols. Pg. Is just one archived post |
Threats |
13/11/03 |
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Health & |
A Better Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims by Inne ten Haven. |
14/11/03 |
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No category – Personal Health & Wellbeing? |
16/11/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts |
Giving Humanity a Voice. An Arab-Israeli e-mail dialogue. |
17/11/03 |
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Local issues |
Co-creative power – engaging stakeholder networks for learning and innovation. From an essay by Ann Svendsen and Miryam Laverge. |
20/11/03 |
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Economy |
Free Speech for Humans Only. Restricting speech by corporations evaluated by the tri-valuation system. |
20/11/03 |
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Spiritual Issues |
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder. A review and mention of Alan Morinis’s book about Mussar. |
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Communica-tion? |
A guest commenter links to his online service called Metamind. |
03/02/04 |
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This one is in articles in VOH |
Economy |
The Delicate Question of Money. A long essay on community currencies, LETS, etc., mentions “Ithaca Dollars” in the numerous comments, and other essays along the same lines |
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Education |
Student Exchange to raise consciousness of first-world youth who do not value education. |
15/11/03 |
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Ongoing conflicts; local issues; blocks |
NI Politician “buddy system” to serve as “bullshit detector”. This would help NI leaders to see beyond their insular concerns which block the peace process. Fortunately, the rest of the UK are “bored rigid” by their wrangling. |
28/11/03 |
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Personal Wellbeing |
Health Co-operatives. Exchange your labour for free or cheap exercise classes, access to gym or pool; teach each other yoga, healthy cooking, tai chi; conduct group rambles or hold salsa sessions. |
04/12/03 |
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Health & Environment |
Smoking parlours as an alternative to completely outlawing smoking, and as a preventive measure against 2nd-hand smoke in bars and restaurants. |
30/12/03 |
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No identified BP solutions found at either the old or the new Sandhill Trek. |
(no date) |
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Communica-tion |
Anti-Black Hole Solution. A data repository for items of interest to the Liberal Blogosphere, similar to the Memory Hole. |
03/12/03 |
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? |
Don’t know enough Spanish to be sure if there are or are not any solutions on this page. Don’t see any identified by category or anything. |
(no date) |
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Transporta-tion; Local Issues |
Personal Rapid Transit. An idea that’s been around a while; just what it says. Links to existing model systems in Wales, Minnesota and California. |
14/11/03 |
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Economy; Environment |
Energy Dividends and Entropy Tax. Inspired by Bucky Fuller. |
22/11/03 |
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Economy; Local (Housing) |
Stakeholder Paradigm for Local Housing. Sort of like co-operative housing? Landlords issue shares for rent, which can be traded and cashed in if the property is sold. |
31/12/03 |
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Economy |
Community Currencies. This is not a proposed solution but an essay about trust, money and community, that briefly mentions community currencies and recommends everyone use a credit union instead of a corporate bank. |
08/01/04 |
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No category |
Don’t throw things out your car window. Or if you do, put a waste receptacle on the outside. From comedienne Ellen deGeneris. |
08/01/04 |
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No category |
Two waves of change. I think this is about electing one of 2 candidates for US president, both of whom have since dropped out. By Stephen Dinan. (link broken)) |
14/01/04 |
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No category |
What if we had a progressive vision that offered corporations big profits? An essay by Rob Kall at OpEd News.com. I’m not sure I see a solution here either. There is a mention of revoking the status of personhood conferred on corporations, but it is not clear how this leads to all the “what if?” benefits in the article. |
14/01/04 |
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General problems |
Social Networking: I am not sure if there is a solution here or just discussion of tools and links to Social Network projects, including back to BP |
12/10/03 |
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Energy; Environment |
Energy Alternatives on PEI. Energy ideas – biodiesel and wind turbines, plus link to others. |
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Education – UK specific |
Funding Higher Education. Make all education free and use taxes to fund the institutions. |
05/11/03 |
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Poverty; Economics |
How to Use Capitalism to Kill Capitalism. From The Idler magazine. The Decadent Action Manifesto. |
14/12/03 |