Sustainability meets the groundwork of democracy
We leverage technology that protects privacy while still being aesthetic, user friendly and privacy protecting. This is our techculture, but not the focus of our work life. We use technology to support equitable development without profiteering on the intellectual property of others.
Support a research institute that supports local people – to better inform public decisions where they live. When we all take part in place-based community research, we contribute in the aggregate to restoring peace which is fundamentally necessary to restoring…
econ4peace supporters also volunteer in their place-based communities to provide outreach, to take part in The Groundwork Project or to conduct social fieldwork for other purposes requiring local voice. For local input, preference is given to in person dialogue in…
Training scheduled for Tuesday, October 22 (4:30pm to 6pm pacific). 1.5 hour training. Training is offered monthly. Next date: Tues, Nov. 26 Once registered, you will receive a preliminary set of activities to complete prior and to ensure your full…
Markets require perfect information to avoid externalities. We hope to provide a means to inform local markets with participatory research on what helps rather than harms. We will develop local markets wherever we are running The Groundwork Project. We will…
The cooperative model is an opportunity to restore the means of production to local people so that they may become producers. Through these monthly discussions and other outreach, we are growing a network of individuals to explore and later implement…
We continue on a GDPR quest to ensure a restorative econ4peace techculture. GDPR stands for General Date Protection Regulation and is thus far the most stringent requirement to protect personal information online. Merchant services are provided through GDPR compliant merchant…
In every way possible and as policy, we we prefer direct one-on-one communication by phone or in person rather than electronic, digitally-mediated conversation. Human experience is imbued with so many layers of perceptual understanding that only in-person conversation can fully…
Our goal for 2024 is 100 sustaining donors by September 21. Will you be one? Your consistent financial support will allow us to conduct participatory research with more and more communities. Good information is necessary to good decisions. Biased information…
The beta sites are the building blocks and content of where we plan to go with online communications. What you see now is an organized approach to delivering on our programmatic objectives. We plan to create a online hub for…
Let’s get organized! Newsletters to resume in April 2022. We encourage you to subscribe through the widget found in the footer. Thank you. Through GDPR-compliant technology, we utilize the world wide web for the purpose of communicating about our work…