The Allocentric “Community Minded” Synopsis


Vision

The following positive solution emphasises the innovative and multifaceted aspects of a viable and ethical ”Community Based” solution to the sustainable concerns facing us. A “Global Eco-Social Economic Sustainable Development Model” is a distinct entity which offers true longevity in every facet of its vision, concept, design, and mode of operation.

Allocentric Defined

In 2011, three prominent European political science professors edited the widely acclaimed, eight volume “International Encyclopedia of Political Science” (SAGE Publications, Inc., Los Angeles). According to France’s Bertrand Badie, Germany’s Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Italian Leonardo Morlino,

"Socialist systems are those regimes based on the economic and political theory of socialism, which advocates public ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.”

Like most political, religious, or other societal management constructs, it relies upon some form of hierarchical command-and-control mechanism to determine who will do what with which resources. Historically, most of these societies have either failed or devolved into authoritarian dictatorships. The reason for the demise of these socialist experiments is generally believed to be a lack of a moral foundation, ethical leadership, and a disregard for the intellect of the individual members of the community.

Allocentrism is a personality attribute, based upon the belief in the interdependence of people in a healthy society, whereby people orient their attention and actions on other people rather than themselves. It is a psychological dimension which corresponds to the general cultural dimension of collectivism; however, “allocentric” is used here to denote something brought forth out of an individual’s personal, rational choice rooted in integrity and selflessness. That choice is to sublimate their individualistic perspective in favour of a world-view based upon an interdependent affiliation with others who share a similar sense of duty, cooperation, honesty, and equality.

We are here today addressing the current inefficiently built environment. Perhaps not the ideal destination that we were all lead to believe in. There are suggestions by experts criticizing how inflated, societies infra-structure has become. What does this mean? We find ourselves surrounded by poorly planned communities, wasting precious resources, with no thought for the future. Sadly its continued inefficiency extends to its energy ineptness and inefficiencies; primarily carbon based, with fracking being an explicit example.

Our vision is to bring together a group of like-minded people who are committed to creating and maintaining a sustainable, technologically advanced community based upon democratic principles, ethical economics, and a shared responsibility for resource management; in other words, socialism without greed.

#QU4ARK

The challenge (or rather the opportunity) is to engage, educate and enthral a vast Global audience in a mutual process that unveils the “Distinct Entity” #QU4ARK with distinguishable ideas, concepts and visions in which they not only have ownership but control of it’s attitude, behaviour and culture via principle interests, rights and individual voting powers that supersede organisations and or institutions.

In my efforts to establish an ethical brand in the world, there are now nearly 1,500,000 people who have heard of Scott Northcott, “QU & ARK,” and the #QU4ARK hashtag. My goal is to capture a Global audience of hundreds of millions and create a “Distinct Entity” #QU4ARK by the people for the people. More than an ordinary mutual affiliation or traditional cooperative model, this shall be a partnership that epitomises share holder value via their principle interests and the principle rights of its individual stakeholders.

Banks are supposed to be custodians of your money; however, the complex and labyrinthine banking regulations that have been given the force of law grant them near absolute control of all funds deposited in their establishment. They are allowed to aggregate funds for off-book trading platforms and international currency arbitrage which net millions to the bank and little or nothing to you except the risk. If you are not happy with their lack of social dynamic, mode of operation, attitude, behaviour and culture then it is your individual responsibility to seek a better solution.

Our combined challenge, or perhaps significant opportunity is to co-create, collaborate and cooperate towards establishing a “Distinct Entity” #QU4ARK that will address the fundamental inconsistencies which have been increasingly void of prudence, caution and conservatism. We plan to address and rebalance these inconsistent and self-serving economic models which have failed to perform, execute and deliver an equitable and balanced social environment. Our ecologically-conscious, environmentally friendly and economically sustainable Development Model has the primary objective of achievement of a balanced global ecology, environment and economy. It is not only truly and fairly balanced, but offers a real equilibrium in that is restrained, efficient, affordable, sustainable, and addresses communal responsibility for longevity.

Unique Selling Proposition (USP)

(1) Eco-Modular Potentially Flood Proof Housing that fundamentally addresses our volatile & rapidly changing climate with affordable, sustainable mixed use communities that are nearly self contained.

(2) Alternative, divergent & varied application of new green and clean technologies which address energy generation and management, water and waste treatment, transportation, communication, housing and commercial development in a responsible and environmentally responsible manner;

(3) Financially engineered models of commerce and enterprise which will be based upon an attitude, behaviour, and culture of transparency, integrity, and social responsibility.

The Residences

  • There are four units/abodes per residential module with each module having an approximate footprint of 500 Square meters or 0.12 of an acre. Ideally residing within 1,000 meter quarter acre landscape.
  • All costs, land, bricks, mortar although they are anything but a traditional design & build are divided between four households equally.
  • Benchmark is £100K or $170K per unit/abode at 50% shared ownership with zero anticipated electricity & gas costs associated.
  • Council tax & water rates may still apply, subject to specific sites, terrain & conditions etc.; however, subject to water irrigation & harvesting, water rates may not apply.
  • Benchmark rental or shared ownership weekly rents/costs £100 or $170 per week. With a down payment of 5% which can be recouped or transferred on sale or acquisition through inheritance, etc. We anticipate churn to be near zero based on the design-build eco-chic trend that will generated through our marketing efforts. Retentions levels are anticipated to be high.

The object of the exercise is to assist first time buyers, maintain anticipated "Affordable" costs, today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year so on & so forth. As the long term value & inheritable value is the affordable cost which is therefore "Priceless."

The Proposed Methodology

Funding requirements are projected into tranches.

Stage 1

The first tranche will be £100K which will be used to expand upon the global brand that has been established by launching a major marketing and education effort. A book will be written which will expand and explain the philosophy, risk, and reward of the endeavor with a detailed discussion contrasting the status quo with the possibilities inherent in our allocentric community proposal. Video, music, and publishing content will be created and disseminated through all available medium redirecting inquiries back to our own website. The web platform for QU & ARK #QU4ARK will serve as an educational resource and a community kiosk connecting talent and resources with opportunities and needs. We will also generate revenues through sales of books, videos, training modules, clothing and accessories, and other related products. Our objective is to achieve tens of millions of hits within the first year and fostering a global awareness of the QU & ARK project.

Stage 2

The second tranche will be £1M which will be used for design and development of the construction project proposal for the QU & ARK eco-modular, flood-resilient, global housing community, including complete design and construction a prototype residential unit. We are in the process of identifying qualified people with the talent, skills, and proven track record to execute this critical stage utilizing an appropriate and economically responsible blend of existing and emerging technologies to execute and deliver a revolutionary and disruptive design concept, including detailed budget, schedule, Scope of Work, and community plan within 180 days, inclusive of Stage 1.

At this stage 2 we anticipate and project our reach has extended to hundreds of millions of hits and awareness. This is the critical mass we require to pitch equity for: #Makers, #Shakers, & #Changers will be the collective #Hash-Tags for a Crowd Funding phenomenon that will change our world.

Stage 3

The third tranche is expected to be £10M for the acquisition and development of the first phase of the development. We have identified a country estate in Scotland upon which will be developed administrative and project planning offices along with a model site for proof of concept and sales. Marketing of the project through corporate and public events will be undertaken on the property. Our overall objective is to create an Eco-Socially Responsible, Sustainable Development Fund 30% capital reserve high liquidity model. (1) Precious commodities (2) Land, bricks and mortar. (3) Cleantech Renewables.

Revenue Projections

(1) QU & ARK Book “The Spirit Of Business & The Value Of Principles.” £1M from 1,000,000 targeted book sales.

(2) Video and music content revenue advertising & collaborations £1M 10,000,000 hits & global reach rising to 100,000,000 plus, plus.

(3) Ethical QU & ARK Clothing line £1M via 1,000,000 targeted garments sales as every contribution is relative to each person’s circumstances.

Crowdfunding

Examples of Noteworthy Crowd Funding Campaigns that have made an impact and been far reaching globally include:

Brewdog Equity For Punks entry level £100 global reach debatable? Not as vast as the two latter examples. But never the less still managed to raise £4,500,000 http://www.brewdog.com/equityforpunks

Kony2012 99,454,090 global reached & raised $13,000,000 from merchandise, publishing & inspiring emotive video content http://youtu.be/Y4MnpzG5Sqc

Phonebloks global reach is the most significant and impressive 380,000,000 https://phonebloks.com/en what they’ve raised is unpublished?

There are three interesting comparisons between Brewdog, Kony & Phonebloks and their collective routes to market. All three have built their own stage, medium & platform in content and promotional terms. None have either outsourced their campaigns to third parties such as any of the top ten crowdfunding sites detailed here http://www.crowdfunding.com Furthermore that’s a saving of between 5% to 9% saved on all funds raised. By choosing to execute, perform & deliver their own fundraising.

Challenges

We are realistic in our understanding that the biggest challenge we face is changing attitudes, behaviour, and cultural tradition away from 100% ownership of property. That is why we are focusing so much of the groundwork effort on education. By focusing on the rewards of pursuing and implementing sustainability not only in the design-build concept but also in the financial engineering practices, we believe we will attract a significant number of people who are disenchanted with or disenfranchised by the status quo and are ready and willing to try an alternative.

We understand that this initiative will be copied, but what can’t be copied is our ethical motive and transparent agenda to make a difference and create a vitally essential change.

Conclusion

We therefore anticipate, believe and calculate that stage 2 project requirements of funding i.e. £1,000,000 will be superseded and surpassed by month 6 or 180 days from the commencement of the rollout campaign Distinct Entity” #QU4ARK pitching equity for #Makers, #Shakers, & #Changers i.e. a minimum of £3,000,000 in revenue received, if not more!

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Great Post it is! Well done!

Wow ! Someone has been digging deep to find this. That is unless you did Scott? How is this project going now days? Any progress?

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Scott, I would like to comment on the USP 2) above, and in this focus area I would add FOOD to those other essentials you have specified as integral with the QU & ARK community. I have greatly appreciated your receptivity to SolaRoof as a new building paradigm and especially your interest to explore the integration of the AgriPOD at the core of the project design, as a regenerative system that answers the nexus of Food, Energy and Water (FEW) crisis that is becoming ever more critical as the global rate of urbanization accelerates. I am grateful for an opportunity to serve humanity and the whole of life as I gift these solutions, the SolaRoof platform and the AgriPOD application for everyone, everywhere to have free and open access to a built environment that provides FEW4All - here are some thoughts about how, together we can "make that change": When we stop thinking of Nature as a thing or machine and look into the symbiotic interrelationships of the 5 kingdoms of Creation that enable life to grow and propagate, then we discover the principles of closed ecological life support systems and from such regenerative ecosystems knowledge we may learn to develop a co-creative capacity to bring fish (animals), plants, algae, fungi and bacteria together within "closed ecological environments" (CEE) that abundantly provide all essentials for human life support. This is the way forward to abundant living for all, since Space Program research has already confirmed that not more than 20 M2 is needed (anywhere on earth) for abundant and unending provision (without cost of consumption of any man-made inputs) of nutritious food, clean energy and pure water. Our AgriPOD puts these principles into practice with the SolaRoof inventions to enable the low-cost construction of the transparent building envelope and allowing the building itself to behave like a living system that works in synergy with the contained ecosystems.  In this new ecological architecture life comes "indoors"; the barriers come down to enable the human family to establish a new close connection with the whole of life. The "passive" architecture of the past era of scarcity and conflict would be transformed to the dynamic, alive and regenerative with the application of the SolaRoof paradigm. Hard, impermeable walls and tall towers exclude and isolate people inside from actual and perceived risks from outside the boundaries of a community. Our walled and fenced communities protect people from risks and conflict in a culture where fear has a hold on the urban population who suffer with stress and illness by reason of our separation from Nature, the source of wellness and harmony.  We have been starving from lack of nutrients and subtle natural environmental factors that, when missing and substituted with synthetic analogues in our built environment and in our "factory food", then lead to the atrophy of the natural vitality of the human body, mind and spirit. It is thus imperative that people rapidly become aware of the dangers to our families and to all of humanity that is ever more urgent because of the acceleration of global urbanization. The exile of the people from their lands feeds urbanization, with people forced into confinement or incarceration, unemployment or servitude in a System that is dehumanizing and destroying the traditional, rich culture and the social fabric of family and community life. In the slums and wards of “low cost housing” the populations are confined and conditioned by an “educated for oppression”. The 99% are conditioned to exploitation and to live in helpless consumer dependency to a degree that has never been known in the long history of a civilization built on the principle of enslavement. People are now literally hungry for change; for a way out; and fortunately we have a powerful vision for real change with PODnet that makes a beginning with a disruptive innovation for secure, safe and affordable local food for all.  When the interface of home and place is broken its dysfunctionally isolates people from the whole of life, with the consequence that our vitality is lost and life becomes an impossible "token existence" as we are chained in our poverty consciousness. A meagre subsistence is what is remains for a people divided and disconnected from self, others and life itself. Dignity is forfeit when people (over millennia) have been held helpless and now are made into captive consumer and producer populations, who are endlessly exploited as property, as are the resources of the earth. While people seem to have no limit to such abuse, it is not so with the earth, who's ecosystems are at the verge of collapse. More than a decade ago I dedicated my patents and knowhow together with all Proprietary Information and Copyrights to the SolaRoof Creative Commons Public License that makes the whole of the past and ongoing knowledge and technology accessible to everyone, everywhere. I encourage a spirit of "working openly" and global collaboration for development and sharing that leads to cooperative commercial use and applications development. The first of such Applications is the AgriPOD. The goal of this application is to create the optimum "vertical farm" that delivers great energy savings; is not constrained by water scarcity; is able to produce a surplus of clean energy; and, most importantly is an abundant and profitable source of fresh food that is harvested every day. The AgriPOD has a zero consumption of fossil energy and synthetic fertilizers and a zero emission of GHG, which means a zero carbon footprint. Our food is secure and protected from biological, chemical or nuclear contamination that is air born or water born (in rain or in ground water) and the closed atmosphere is CO2 enriched for super productivity from our plant and algae culture systems. The AgriPOD is a multi crop system that includes mushrooms and aquaculture of krill, shrimp and fish. All food that is harvested is living - super fresh and nutritive - natural and organically grown without chemicals or any toxic inputs and then is preferably consumed the same day in the local community. AgriPOD demonstrates that Food, Energy & Water - the FEW essentials for human health and wellbeing are available to all in abundance - which is our FEW4All mission. I am launching AgriPOD this year and one of the locations that is open and receptive - with a sense of urgency is New Orleans where the community has an awareness of the need for change, innovation and opportunity for enterprise that would close the gap that has only grown wider after the damage done by hurricane Katrina. The Katrina 10th Anniversary Commemoration is this August 29th. I have been introduced to Damon Batiste and his vision for community regeneration is ready to adopt AgriPOD as a core element of innovative developments that will engage youth with new clean/green enterprise opportunities that are profitable and build prosperity in the community. My purpose now is to go to New Orleans and work with Damon Batiste, his team and the wider community to crowdsource and crowdfund for the support needed to establish a PODpioneer in the chosen place within the community where the impact is greatest - connecting with youth and with schools. The big crowdfunding opportunity will come with the high profile of the distress of the community that is still not experiencing "recovery" after 10 years. This awareness and timing is very significant because the experience of New Orleans is clearly the "epicentre" of the impact of Global Warming on the USA and if these people can find a way to cope and even to thrive and not be overwhelmed or defeated then the whole world has hope to avert the worst nightmare scenarios that may come with dangerous Climate Change. With global, viral adoption of SolaRoof solutions, humanity has a real chance to avert the "end of life as we know it" by bringing about a rapid decrease of consumption of fossil energy, due to the conservation, efficiency and distributed clean energy production that is a realistic alternative - provided we have a vast, worldwide success of the POD Enterprise Network, as a global COOP. Each community can support and nurture PODpioneers who are the Co-Creative first adopters of AgriPOD in a global OpenSource community of developers who are working openly and sharing the FEW4All solution, AgriPOD, with everyone, everywhere. We are empowered by the Internet that enables a free path to learning about all of the innovative teachings that are revealed to us by the study of “regenerative” systems in Nature and how they integrate and operate within the contained environmnent of the AgriPOD. People can also create other variations of the POD design, such as the LifePOD, which is more about habitat than enterprise opportunity.

 Who will teach this new knowledge and how can it be aggregated and shared when it is seen as disruptive and therefore feared by the experts and authorities? Energime University is a beacon for a concept of education that welcomes change and growth and can reach the world virtually through the internet and in real life as we create PODworks hubs for learning, education and training. Bill Sosinsky is among the world’s most optimistic and original thinkers and his goal with Energime is to create a worldwide wave of free thinking and association that brings together in global unison the Universities and Institutions of the world to serve all of humanity and in sevice to the whole of life on earth, our one and only beautiful, precious and sacred home. I am certainly honoured to such collaborative relationships (Public Private Partnerships) and wish to team up QU & ARK with a “massively transformative purpose” to free the world from the straight jacket of both education and business “as usual”.

My primary focus is highlighting the affordable, social & sustainable attributes of QU & ARK from a financial engineering perspective, as well as it's renewable energy angle as well but it's not purely a carbon fossil fuel based argument. My recent #ecoeurotour of Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden & Norway reaffirmed housing even in presumed more efficient social economic is the single largest cost, ecologically, environmentally, economically & issue, plus huge burden i.e. heavy load everyone is faced & challenged with...

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