‘The world’s local wisdom bank’

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www.copperwiki.org is a collaborative platform to share information, create awareness and offer choices for leading a balanced and sustainable life. It will focus on local practices, green and organic living, traditional knowledge, scientific research, and global issues at regional level. The idea is to familiarize individuals with the lifecycle of their actions, the cost and impact of each decision, and the choices available to them.
It is not an encyclopedia (a comprehensive reference work)

It is not about the information; it is about wisdom (‘judicious application of knowledge’). Wisdom is knowledge with a utility. Our emphasis will always be on utility. Wisdom is often defined in utilitarian sense, as foreseeing consequence and acting to maximize the long-term common good. It will be replete with “insights” into the human condition and about the means and ends of a good life.

It will take a strong regional lens, and work more like a map to document the untapped knowledge, in untapped world pockets. Wikipedia, Citizendium are largely products of a western world (read: developed world). Copperwiki could very well be a project out of the east (& subsequently a lot of developing nations) which is increasingly providing a lot of answers to a world out of balance. Eastern philosophy in food, community living, social structures, healing systems, and its emphasis on the role of nature at the heart of the world’s political and social debate are being increasingly sought by the western world for answers. We might look for “country focus” in coming days as the platform matures.

It will work like the world’s local wisdom bank

• Everybody deposits, everybody withdraws
• You deposit in your own account, withdraw through everybody else’s
• What you take out will always be more than what you put in

All are welcome to come in and write, edit comment on all aspects of sustainable living:

http://copperwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page