To: pil-pc-oceania@lists.permacultureinternational.org, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Permaculture.coop - Notes on Mondragon & Permaculture
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:28:09 -0800
hi again
I have updated and expanded, providing links and some dodgy grammer for my
brain-dump email of a couple of days ago regarding Permaculture Cooperation,
Succession etc
People are the mainstay of the enterprise (twenty-first century, century of
knowledge)
We are all owners and protagonists
One person, one vote (democracy)
The involvement of everyone in: Management, Ownership and Results
Self-management
Decentralised organisation
Real inter-cooperation in funds and people
Reinvestment of surplus
Social responsibility
Innovation: Technical/Technological, Organisational, Financial, Social
Balance between job creation and financial profitability
Internationalization
Mondragon's 10 principles are
1. Open Admission.
2. Democratic Organization.
3. Sovereignty of Labor.
4. Instrumental and Subordinate Nature of Capital.
5. Participatory Management.
6. Wage Solidarity.
7. INTERCO-OPERATION.
8. Social Transformation.
9. Universality.
10. Education