London Open Co-op

Building Sustainable Communities in London

The purpose of the London Open Co-op is to bring existing sustainable enterprises in London together into a sustainable collaborative community which can more effectively Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Ecological Footprint in London.

The following core projects will be initiated and developed by London Open Co-op members:

London's Computer and Communications Co-op

Low Cost High Quality Broadband/Hosting/Servers/Telecomms
- Community Broadband Network
- The Phone Co-op
- Wireless London
- Consume
- Free2air
- OpenMute
- Locust World
- Hacklab
- Rampart
- GLLUG

London's Community Land Trust

see Creative Regen

Ethical Property Company
Bioregional Development Group
Emmaz Social Centre
The Hub
SCRAP (Sustainable Community Regeration Art Project)
Synergy Project
Nomand Studios
The Art Organisation
This Land Is Ours

London's Co-operative Transport and Delivery (Logistics) Network

Ealing Community Transport (ECT)
Zero
Electric City
OYbike
A>2>B
Brixton Cycles
London Cycling Campaign
Critical Mass London

Co-opertive marketing and sale of ethical goods and services in London,.

The London Co-op will recruit 2 types of members:

Individuals
- Investors
- Contributors
Organisations
- Social Enterprise
- NGOs and charities

The London Fund

People

Join The London Open Co-op
- Become sales and marketing agents for London Open Co-op Member Organisations of their choice
- Join London Open Co-op working groups
- Join the q£ trading network and skills exchange
  - Earn q£ working with or for Organisations
  - Earn q£ work with or for eachother
Exchange £ for q£
Invest £ into Sustainable Enterprise projects of their choice for q£ return (i.e. pre-sale at discount)
Donate £ to The London Fund, directing it towards their choice of the available (member-selected) projects
Spend q£ with Organisations

Organisations

Join The London Open Co-op
- Get low-cost effective viral marketing
- Join q£ ethical trading and barter network
Accept q£ as part-payment for products and services

London Open Co-op

The London Fund

Created by: qopi last modification: 31 Jul 05 [22:10:43] by qopi

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salfield

good start
by salfield on 16 Jun 05 [17:03:50] (Score:0.60) Vote: 1 2 3 4 5

qopi,
good to see you have move these pages here as discussed. Personally I think you should emphasise the London Fund more, and that land, tech, and logistics are the three core initial investments that need making...they are infrastructure. Its worth making clear that the idea is to provide other ethical business services using this infrastructure such as food, clothing, energy etc, so that people can see how investing there pounds can give a return in q£'s that will be useful to them. Also I thought we had agreed to drop q£'s for the ECO.

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garyalex

a clear beginning
by garyalex on 19 Jan 05 [23:53:09] (Score:0.60) Vote: 1 2 3 4 5

Nice one Josef.

As I see it, there are two main activities implicit here:
1. A systematic drive to find individuals and business members.
2. An online cc system. There seems to be a good summary of what's happening now at http://www.thetransitioner.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=CcProjects

If this is to be more than an online LETS we need to make sure there is a good range of different services available.

Regards,
Gary

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