Investigating Solarpunk, Part 4: Small Cities

​Following up from these three events: https://luma.com/solarpunk1, https://luma.com/solarpunk2, and https://luma.com/solarpunk3, let's take the next step: envisioning medium-sized institutions and communities.

We'll investigate coops (e.g. Mondragon) and think about what it takes to live together in groups larger than just our immediate tight-knit community.

Homework / pre-reading is here:

• ​Read Elinor Ostrom’s Design Principles for Successful Commons (this is short)

  • ​And watch this video (or just watch the video if not enough time)

  • ​Extra extra credit: read Governing the Commons

• ​Read this Guardian article (or this New Yorker one) about Mondragon or watch this documentary

• ​Think about your own relationship to local governance structures. How empowered do you feel in your company, apartment building, neighborhood or small city (or prior ones you’ve lived in), etc? How was the quality of the governance / the outcomes - what couldn’t they do?

  • ​What works best at a small scale, vs a larger scale?

​Also, here's a recap of week 3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1koAkncXKyJr4d2kDxpRbW7TP7URvHdOsLMacDvuKYuo/edit?tab=t.0