LaFed, an Alternative Solution to Present Day Environmental and Energetic Challenges: Analysis of environmental and energetic global state, introduction to biophysical economics, and emergence of a new organization, the Federation of the Shared, based on P2P economy and the sharing economy

The environmental crisis is deepening and leaders have not responded effectively to it yet. Aside with political solutions and technological breakthroughs, an emerging force has been appearing: The civil society. Indeed, a great number of local initiatives led by citizens are appearing globally with the aims of not only having a social benefit but also an environmental benefit. However, these local initiatives stay marginal in regard to the world economy and their impacts are limited to a given region. Therefore, there is a need to help further the creation of such initiatives in the world. This 'project thesis' has the objective to develop the theoretical structure of an organization called 'The Federation of the Shared » (LaFed), rooted in the Sharing Economy and P2P economy. LaFed may become an ecosystem of structures that would provide a beneficial contribution towards dealing with the environmental crisis. Its strength lies in its bottom up - top down approach, which broadens the power of action away from solely technological breakthroughs or political decisions to a readily accessible institution for citizens. In order to achieve the objective of the project-thesis, this thesis is constructed into three main parts. (1) The first part includes an analysis of the environmental and energetic context. (2) The second part pertains to the analysis of economics and the link between energy and economics as well as the investigation on two global trends: the sharing economy and the P2P economy. (3) The last part describes the imagined organization “The Federation of the Shared” (LaFed) and its potential effects on the environment.