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Consumerism was an experiment that failed. It led us down a dead end. Only by letting go – or, rather, only by ripping ourselves free – can we transcend it. 
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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
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Herman Daly analyses how interest (money theory) is related to the function of capital (economic theory) and how both are embedded in a real physical world.
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Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This exploratory essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new... Continue reading →
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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
jean lievens's insight:
BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY ETHICAL ECONOMY INTEGRAL THEORY P2P ECOLOGY P2P EPISTEMOLOGY P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P SPIRITUALITY P2P SUBJECTIVITYbuil
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PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event held in Barcelona to discuss commons-oriented approaches to public policy, peer production and the collaborative economy.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES COOPERATIVES CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED VIDEO OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OPEN GOVERNMENT ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING VIDEOS
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The FairCoop team is pleased to announce that the FairMarket has now officially entered its beta phase, which means that it is fully functional as a market, and we invite interested individuals and organisations to come and test it out, either as...
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We need to find ways of globally sharing wealth and natural resources more equally and in a way that is cooperative and doesn't lead to conflict.
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Douglas Rushkoff has made a career of peering into an unknown future and helping the rest of us come to grips with the burgeoning digital space
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Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
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The Precious Plastic project provides open source designs and instruction manuals for the free sharing of cheap DIY machinery to recycle plastics everywhere
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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Announcing the launch of a new grassroots initiative to explore and promote the notion of a Credit Commons and inter-operable currencies.
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"The state is like a household that should not spend more than it earns" This kind of ‘handbag economics’ draws its analogy from erroneous myths.
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Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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For more than two decades, Douglas Rushkoff has provided incisive commentary on our increasingly connected, digitized, and corporatized world. From Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace to Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back to his newest, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he’s chronicled both the promise and the peril of of a global society being remade by the Internet and high-tech corporations.dou
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Repair groups have formed The Repair Coalition, a lobbying and advocacy group that will focus on reforming the DMCA.
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