Social change

Social change: theory and practice

The Kaskantine would like to contribute to a “future proof and resilient city”;
More locally produced food and crafts, more nature, local entrepreneurship and making the neighbourhood more pleasant and richer with own resources.

We are doing this by creating “local capital”, and manage this with neighbourhood organisations, also called commoning. This concerns for example garden projects, energy cooperatives and health care and educational projects.

We ask the municipality of Amsterdam to make it possible to take over the management of land and water on places where it is currently underused, and where the management does currently not contribute to the neighbourhood. This possible win-win situation needs to be formalised in new land and wateruse contracts. Last december the Council agreed to start a research on how to realise our proposed "climate adaptive landlease contract".

We have a real "think tank" on social change! Twice per month we organise a (because of corona virtual) meetup: a political cafe, a book club or a discussion with a guest speaker. We discuss literature that should help us advance in consuming less, and producing more for the local community.