I don’t know if this is the right community to post this video, but the community they are (building) seems very solarpunk to me!
This could be a promising project. If anyone knows what is the decision-making processes within this community, could you share a link?
Ok so it looks like they try to shift to the sociocracy model.
Coincidentally, I have a friend who worked for some years in a company that was trying to shift from a typical hierarchical structure to a co-op with a horizontal decision-making processes, using sociocracy. For them, and to my understanding, it was not going great. They actually kinda kept replicating the typically centralised structure for too long but this time using the “circles” deriving from sociocracy. That said, maybe by now they have managed to move on from this transitional phase, but I don’t know since my friend doesn’t work there anymore. That said, from the conversations we had, I got the understanding that there has been successful approaches in other coops, in the sense that they had achieved consent-based decision-making processes.
Workers vote on new decisions and how monies are distributed. If senior roles are needed to help keep things orderly, those people are elected into those positions for a fixed term and then they can propose any reforms that workers might vote on. That’s just my surface understanding but coops seem like the way to go. Here’s a link describing it a bit better https://cultivate.coop/wiki/Worker_Cooperatives
This is probably the most Solarpunk thing I’ve ever seen. Really cool!
Definetly subbing to that channel, seems like there is loads og catch up on!
