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| − | '''RBE10K''' (R-B-E-10-1000 or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɑr||'|b|iː|'|iː}} {{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɛ|n|ˈ|θ|aʊ|z|ə|n|d}}) is an [[w:Anarcho-primitivism|primitivist]] or [[w:Eco-communalism|eco-communalist]] experiment project seeking to implement the a basic [[Resource-Based Economic Model]] (RBEM) system. The experiment is being planned and prepared through this Wiki and other tools since 1st January 2013, and will run for two years, 2015-2016, involving 10,000 volunteers in a yet to-be-determined location, with a main objective of trialling a real world RBE model, i.e. a social arrangement engineered to satisfy premises of sustainability, equality, liberty, health, and access to the necessities of life without using money, trade, or authority or privilege systems.
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| − | This wiki is a work in progress, and it is currently in very early stages of development, with little information and almost no planning started. In order to grow and develop, this project requires the participation of interested volunteers to either plan, contribute with information, or intend to be one of the pioneers who will make part of the first experimental RBE settlement.
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| − | Current participants of RBE10K project planning believe that a real-world RBE system experience, even a primitivist one, will help expand awareness and cause a surge in interest on this lifestyle. Once in execution in 2015, the project includes plans to regularly upload information and videos of day to day life in the community to the project's website, and several social networking services like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, assisting this way with other transition projects like [[The Venus Project]], and collaborating with awareness-raising movements like [[The Zeitgeist Movement]] and [[The Free World Charter]].
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| − | == Participation ==
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| − | {{Main | RBE10K Project Participation}}
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| − | This Wiki is the main platform for the engineering of the systems and methodologies that will support the community, and anyone is welcome to participate in one of many ways. The Project is open to the participation of anyone who has an interest, regardless of an intention to live in the experimental community itself. Participating in the project begins by registering as a user of the wiki, either through the [http://tzmwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=RBE10K normal registration form] or using a ''Facebook account'' by clicking on the link on the top-right of the page. The current contributors to the project are registered in the [[RBE10K Project Participants]] page, and anyone is invited to add themselves to the list. In line with the Project's values of openness, honesty and individuality, we request that each contributor create a personal wiki user page with their own understanding of an RBE and the objectives sought after through participation in RBE10K.
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| − | == Criticising the project ==
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| − | Chances are you're reading this page because you were requested to provide one of the activists with some feedback about our project. Please do bear in mind that comment like "''I think the idea is great''", although it may appear to be helpful, it is far from what we need and we're looking from you. The same goes to negative remarks like "''it won't work''", even if you honestly think this way. Rather, we'd appreciate very much your insights, being what you think can be improved, what information be included, why you think any of our approaches is likely not to work and how it could be corrected, and what you can be counted for in assistance.
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| − | == Features of a RBE10K settlement ==
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| − | {{Main|RBE10K settlement features}}
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| − | The most important feature of a RBE10K settlement is sustainability, as understood from an RBEM point of view, i.e. living in accordance to the carrying capacity of the Earth, in a peaceful, egalitarian, voluntarist, and evidence-based decision-making community. The settlement is expected to consist of 10,000 people to ensure sufficient variety of skills to be fully self-sustainable, and to ensure the social experiment is relevant. The location for the settlement is not yet defined, however it will have to be a place where there is permissiveness by the local governments to perform as intended. The project intends to be not-for-profit and fully self-funded, however the viability of the project may require extra funding, or even the implementation of the project under a company structure. The experiment will go for two years, and it is expected it will renew for subsequent two meanwhile volunteers are still interested in its continuity. The experiment will also attempt at producing a sister experiment at the end of each term, meanwhile there is sustained interest.
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| − | Daily life in the settlement will be all but boring. There will be a significative focus in the development of health, fitness, knowledge and skills of each volunteer. The community will aim at producing rich, diverse and high-quality artistic works to be contributed free of charge through online services, including music, films, literature, visual arts. etc. The community will also aim at furthering science, and producing technology such as software, [[w:open-source hardware|open-source hardware]], and educational materials. Other activities will include refining notions of RBEM, developing this wiki for the benefit of subsequent settlements, online media for communicating developments in the community, and daily tasks for the sustenance of the community such as producing food, equipment, doing general maintenance of public spaces, and providing public services such as training, coordination, cleaning, cooking, etc.
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| − | == Objectives of the RBE10K Project ==
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| − | {{Main|RBE10K project objectives}}
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| − | The RBE10K Project has two main objectives: a) proving that the RBEM is viable, and b) providing a voluntary and realistic transition towards a RBEM.
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| − | == Differences from other projects ==
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| − | {{Main|RBE10K Project differences from other projects}}
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| − | The RBE10K Project has unique purposes and strategies. Although many other projects have been attempted with apparently similar goals, the strategies have been significantly different. Even the goals pursued, if analysed carefully, quickly show that the goals are also significantly different. This project differs from The Venus Project mainly in its strategy for implementation, choosing to implement immediately with the resources available as opposed to waiting until the conditions are ripe for involving the governments of the world. It also differs significantly from The Zeitgeist Movement in that it will promote a RBEM from within one (even though a primitivist one), as opposed to from within a monetary market system. There have been and currently exist many communities with sustainability in mind like transition towns, hippy communes, and projects like [[w:The Peckham Experiment|The Peckham Experiment]], however none of these have embraced both social engineering, automation, a non-monetary system, and voluntarism.
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| − | == Sources of inspiration for this transition approach ==
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| − | {{Main | RBE10K Project sources of inspiration}}
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| − | The RBE10K Project derives inspiration from a number of projects and movements. The most relevant is of course the work of [[w:Jacque Fresco|Jacque Fresco]] and [[The Venus Project]], and the clarity of [[w:Peter Joseph|Peter Joseph]] for developing those works and making them accessible and popular. The project is also inspired in the works of Nature through biology and ecology, notions of dynamic equilibrium and [[w:systems theory|systems theory]]. The project would not be possible without the support of the Free and Open-Source Software ([[w:FOSS|FOSS]]) community and the hacker ethics, and projects like the [[w:Linux|Linux]] and most especially the Wikipedia. Also from commercial companies which provide invaluable zero-cost services such as Google and Facebook. The project also derives inspiration in the creativity of game developers, who allows us to immerse in imagined worlds with other real people ([[w:MMOG|MMOG]]) such as Runescape. And finally all the many emergent solutions to today's problems like pollution, ecological degradation, poverty, war, injustice, sexism, poor health, mistreatment of animals, etc, which even though individually they're patchwork and miss dealing with the root causes for the problems, they help by raising awareness and stimulating individuals to take action and personal responsibility.
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| − | == Long term view and potential of the project if wildly successful ==
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| − | In terms of maths, starting with one city in 2015 and keeping to plan, the whole humankind would migrate to a RBE10K city by 2055 (i.e. a 40-year long project), which would reach around one million and be the home of the 10 billion people that would be on Earth by then. Because of the primary concern with sustainability, it is not expected that population or number of cities would increase ever again from this number.
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| − | == Drawbacks and considerations ==
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| − | One can expect life to be harsh in RBE10K cities during the first 16 years of the project, while growing towards the first million RBE inhabitants and dealing with all the strange new world issues of a community with severely limited resources, educated and raised in our uncivilised/miscivilised culture, having to adapt to much simplified and possibly inconvenient lifestyle characteristics, without law and order, institutions, leaders or authorities. However conditions would rapidly catch-up and also surpass those of the current non-RBE culture, as a result of automated systems and processes, lack of waste of time and resources, increased psychological and emotional health, and having people contribute exclusively in areas of their most strongest interest and passion.
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| − | == Project schedule and timeframe ==
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| − | The project will launch formally in 1st January 2013, aiming at the first colony somewhere safe and isolated in the world two years later, and in those two years will engage primarily at recruiting the interest of a first community of 10,000 RBE enthusiasts and activists, creating the first draft of a knowledgebase in [[RBE10K|this wiki]], initially in English but ideally finished and used in Esperanto (encouraging everybody to learn and contribute in [[Esperanto in RBE10K cities|Esperanto]] as an equaliser and normaliser universal language for RBE10K cities), and building and gathering all the resources that would be necessary for the settlement, ensure full [[RBE10K city self-sufficiency|self-sufficiency]] for two years, and enabling a capacity for remaining full self-sufficient thereafter. The total [[RBE10K city settlement budget|budget per RBE10K city]] would be US$100 million. Each settlement would also require a wide enough [[RBE10K city skills required|variety of skills]] to cater for self-sufficiency.
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| − | == Criticism ==
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| − | === Concerns ===
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| − | Advocates and activists of [[The Venus Project]] generally emphasise the need for having a concerted, global effort, instead of a multitude of transition styles (one of which would be RBE10K) occurring at various spots in the world.
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| − | Advocates and activists with [[The Zeitgeist Movement]] generally emphasise the importance of not progressing into transitions just yet, that the best strategy at this time is help raise awareness within our communities in an effort to reach critical mass and act when the time is ripe.
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| − | Some of the criticism received includes the following notions:
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| − | * An RBE settlement must not be experiment
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| − | * We need to transition globally to RBE much quicker than 40 years
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| − | * The inclusion of money pollutes the concept of an RBE
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| − | * RBE must be a global initiative, and not a mix of various styles of transition (TVP view)
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| − | * RBE cannot be implemented low-tech
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| − | * If the project doesn't succeed it may cause a negative perception of RBE in the general population
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| − | * It is essential that an RBE city has all the basic comforts people are accustomed to
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| − | === Addressing concerns ===
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| − | The RBE10K Project intends on address all concerns raised, dealing with conflicts by documenting reasons for each claim and dispute, researching and quantifying the validity for each reason, and arriving at the best possible outcome to maximise the degree of consensus.
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| − | == References ==
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| − | <!--ref name="missionstatement">[http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/mission-statement] as of Dec 2012.</ref-->
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