Pro-Community Business Models

The Occupy movement has everybody asking, "What do they want?" I have stated previously that I think it is a much more productive question to ask, "What do we want?"  While we have the media's attention, we need to establish a vision, we need to infect our collective mind with new meme.  My unecessarily convoluted mind has glomed on to the idea of 

The Generative Capacity of our Communities

By this I specifically mean, how can we generate real value that can be realized in the economies of our communites.  More on this in my previous blog, from the center to the edges.

Kurt Vonegut, in Breakfast of Champions, drew an iconic graph of our global economy as it exists today. (That is not how he described it.)

I believe we need an economy that looks a lot more like a graph of the Internet, far less centralized, far more scale-free.

Where our communities are provided the opportunity to be attractive, to create value.

In subsequent posts, I will try to present several possible models for generating value from our communities.

1. Traditional, old-school, tried and true, community development.
2. Cooperatives
3. Franchises that behave more like shared-services.
4. Distributed manufacturing
5. Alternative currencies
6. Shared/Reciprocol Education
7. Municipal Resources and Maintenance
8. Governance

Anyone out there want to help me build these out?  Would love to collaborate!