As a death of distance researcher 1 2 over the last 22 years, I have come to believe that collaboration knowledge cities -or at elast networks of citizens - learn most about sustaining value multiplication -and other searches for economics of abundnace - from VILLAGES, as well as how these villages connect across the cities vibrancy of cultures and so to love harmony among peoples all over the world.

In fact the chief economist of future historian alumni -who happens to be dad to me -wrote back in 1984 that if the human race is to survive newtorking as the greatest challenge to ver face one genberation of people (1984 to 2024) then we would need to change economics until transparent world trades zinged across 2 million global villages (some geographically twinning rich and poor cultures as a way of bridging digital divides), some connecting professions because the powerfully separatist profession compounds more risk in a knowledge worker world than anything else transparency mapmakers 1 2 can imagine

Perhaps there is an even greater game to play where 2 villages also share the same name - were they founded for overlapping reasons? this is a quiz that every schoolchild can search and play as well as every powerful citizen and everyone else in between

Now when it comes to London's Greenwich - we have the great start of being the epicentre of maps (of 0 degree separation). Maps will prove to be even more valuable to 21st C humanity (if such a species is to thrive) because no knowledge networks survive without them; today's greatest investmnent in cpaital is every human being's likfetime and not to have access to transparent maps and searching is the greatest discrimination we could systemis against any peoples, the 21st C apartheid if you will

When it comnes to Greenwich in New York, another magic happens ; we've taken extracts from 2 Greenwich Village websites since its clear from their passion that they can descrobe their future histories better than any words my friends and I can conjure up from my desks in London and Bethesda and ... and ...

guided excerpt 1 from Village Alliance

Welcome to the Village Alliance Web site! We are a not-for-profit Business Improvement District located in the heart of Greenwich Village one block north of Washington Square Park on 8th Street & extending eastward to Second Avenue & St Marks Place. Over the years, the 12 blocks included in the Village Alliance have been home to some of America's most creative minds and artists.

Welcome to our Historic Neighborhood! The location where Jimi Hendrix built the Electric Lady sound studios; Where Barbra Streisand debuted at the Bon Soir and where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney Museum and Andy Warhol and Lou Reed created the citadel of Hippiedom at the Electric Circus on St Marks Place.

Welcome to our world renowned community where a clean, safe & friendly environment awaits your visit to a variety of shops, quaint alleyways and a culture of diversity.

And welcome to 8th Street, the Shoe Capital of The World!

Guided excerpt 2 from NYCGV
For over 100 years, this small area below 14th Street and west of Broadway has been a Mecca to the creative, rebellious and Bohemian. Although today no starving artists could afford to live here, the vibe still lingers and the beat goes on

Blackheath & Greenwich United Nations Association invite you to a public meeting:

Wednesday 15th March, 7.30pm in Blackheath Village, London
The Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange, Bennett Park, Blackheath Village, London (almost directly opposite Blackheath rail station, entrance 70yds along Bennett Park on the left).

Speaker: John Bunzl, Founder and Trustee
International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
http://www.simpol.org

"What kind of world are we creating for our children and grandchildren and what we can do about it".

Please bring your questions and answers! For a summary of the Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, see below. 12 MPs from all the main political parties have so far signed up to SP along with MPs in the EU and Australian parliaments.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments available.
For further details, please contact Neville Grant on 020-8858 8489
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Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. This is because the problems transcend national boundaries, and because the global competitive system means that any government that acted alone to try and resolve such problems could effectively make its country uncompetitive.

Simpol aims to achieve these objectives by encouraging ordinary people around the world to oblige their political representatives and governments to move toward co-ordinated international resolution of global issues for the good of all. This is because it is only by countries all agreeing to implement changes at the same time that problems no individual government dares tackle alone can be resolved in a satisfactory way. Simultaneous implementation of such policies would ensure that no country became uncompetitive as a result of pursuing policies that were right for the planet and which embodied people¹s higher aspirations.

All you need to do is sign up as a Simultaneous Policy Adopter which costs you nothing. By so doing you agree in principle to vote at elections for any candidate, within reason, who has signed a pledge to implement the Simultaneous Policy alongside other governments. Alternatively, if you have a party preference, your Adoption signifies you will encourage your preferred party to make this pledge. This is the simple mechanism Adopters use to advance their cause.

Simpol's approach is peaceful, open, and democratic. If you Adopt you will have the opportunity to contribute to the formation of specific policies that answer global problems and join with others in using your vote in a new and effective way to drive the politicians of all parties to implement these
policies.


Book Endorsements: "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl. Published by New European Publications. ISBN 0-1872410-15-4. Foreword by Diana Schumacher. Copies available from ISPO info@simpol.org. Please ask for details. Or contact your bookshop.

"I thought your proposal was an elegant idea of how change could occur. It reflects the core ideas of how to create consensus around change. This is the biggest challenge that we have"

Ed Mayo. Former Executive Director, New Economics Foundation



"Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent. … Lets hope that people start to listen to this important message."

Helena Norberg-Hodge Member of the International Forum on Globalisation and Director of the International Society for Ecology & Culture

"It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try."

Noam Chomsky

"…the basic concept is excellent. … Let me know what develops!"

Jakob von Uexkull Founder and Chairman - Right Livelihood Award Foundation

"The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives"

Hazel Henderson Author of 'Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy'

"I agree with the case your organization is making about the failure of
anti-globalization forces to propose effective alternatives to the
status quo. I believe your organization's proposals are an important
step forward. They address the real problems we face with proposals that
deserve to be taken seriously. I hope that many of those who took
important first steps in Seattle, Washington and Quebec City will now
take the second step and take either the ISPO programme, or any
alternatives they wish to propose, into the political arena.
Anti-globalization demonstrators have the attention of the world. If
they wish to hold that attention, and start to make an impact on policy,
they must now follow the ISPO's lead and propose workable alternatives
to the status quo."

Prof. Christopher Leo - Dept. of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Canada.

"Simultaneous Policy is a very stimulating book and by substituting internationalism for globalization, co-operation for competition, humanity for markets and wisdom for materialism you have unlocked a powerhouse for good."

Tony Benn - Former Labour Member of Parliament, UK.

"The really big issues today now cross national frontiers and individual governments cannot cope with them in isolation. This is where Simultaneous Policy comes in. … [It] is the only way a host of problems can now be solved. Simultaneous Policy is the alternative."

Sir Richard Body - Former Conservative Member of Parliament, UK

"Simultaneous Policy is a most promising strategy for discovering and establishing a more equitable, efficient and sustainable economic order."

Shann Turnbull Author of "Democratizing the Wealth of Nations"

"The concept of Simultaneous Policy (SP) is a wonderful way of implementing cooperation which is the new law of human survival in the globalized world. With it goes moral education inducing a new system of values to satisfy the requirements of the New Age."

Dr. Farhang Sefidvash Coordinator, the Research Centre for Global Governance

"Working from an East-West perspective in which the interdependency of Buddhism combines with the economics of E.F. Schumacher, Bunzl argues for a program of restoring social control over the blind destructiveness of corporate globalisation by simultaneous government policies across world borders. The need for simultaneity of sovereign state action is an important new dimension of a debate affecting all planetary life."

John McMurtry Author of "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism"

"With his concept of Simultaneous Policy, John Bunzl delivers an important piece in the puzzle that governments around the world can use to resolve the pressures of increasingly integrated markets. ... It is, perhaps, one of the few workable solutions to bridging the sustainability gap."

Matthias Hoepfl Politische Oekologie Magazine, Munich, Germany.

"This is an important book about a potentially very important idea - the Simultaneous Policy. The author asks the question: how can the world get beyond the escalating problems of global competition to a framework of global co-operation? As we have seen with single issues such as arms control, it is hard for an individual country to justify making the first move. This is where SP comes in. It provides a rallying point for those who would like to see the vicious circle broken and a new world system inaugurated."

The Scientific and Medical Network Review.