Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Tragedy of the commons

[mrbouchez06 (mrbouchez06]

wow - as a recent graduate of an MPA program at Virginia Commonwealth 
University, I was thrilled to see the heading "tragedy of the commons" -  we 
covered 
the concept in a Policy class and it left a profound impact on me.  I would 
love to reflect on your idea for a game and throw in some ideas - I know that 
there was a program called "Camelot" that featured role playing for students to 
mimic the process of local governance and it might provide some ideas.  I 
believe it was involved enough to fill an entire semester.  We did a process 
like 
this in a Budget and Finance class where we assumed various roles - the same 
concept was used in a class on Conflict Resolution and Mediation where we took 
various roles in mediations/senior county staff - elected officials - 
activists - attornies for all viewpoints - impacted citizens including those 
seldom 
heard in the public arena.  I'll see what I can dig up and forward some ideas.  
In school, I became terribly enamoured with communitarian ideals and so much 
of that plays into the issue of a different way of coming to agreement and 
looking outside one's own perceived, immediate interest & instead thinking more 
"w"holistically to abuse the actual word.  sorry - i'm starting to write an 
essay here but as the original poster said - no animals were injured in any 
manner 
during its writing - however, a precious shihtzu was definitely ignored (but, 
he was sleeping and they do say "let sleeping dogs lie") - back to my day job
tricia



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