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New release: 'Rethinking Money' points out that there is a way, in fact a thousand ways, to stop our current juggernaut towards global self-destruction.
One of Dr. Larry Rosen’s friends feels he must be continuously connected to his electronic devices. If he is in a conversation that is more than 15 minutes
Dit is een vertaling van het artikel ‘Scope not Scale’ verschenen op 22/03/2012 op de website van Aljazeera.
Wat hebben middeleeuwse monniken, Cubaanse socialisten en Wikipedia met elkaar gemeen?
Chiang Mai, Thailand – De competitieve dynamiek van het kapitalisme is welbekend, en heeft alles te maken met schaalvoordelen.
Wanneer bedrijven meer eenheden produceren kunnen ze de prijs per eenheid doen dalen en zodoende hun concurrenten de loef afsteken. Multinationals en wereldmerken maken vandaag gebruik van uiterst complexe waardeketens waarbij de verschillende onderdelen van een product op massale schaal worden vervaardigd in verschillende delen van de wereld.
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"So, yeah," she said, "it's important to build local alternatives, we have to do it, but unless we are really going after the source of the problem" — namely, the fossil-fuel industry and its lock on Washington — "we are gonna get inundated."
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by Shane Hughes We are caught between an old system that no longer works and a new one that is trying to emerge. In recent times more and more people have grappled with articulating, what they see as the new economic model, with increasing confidence and detail. I believe that the ‘three C’s’ (the change-maker, cooperative and collaborative movements) now offer a credible alternative to the traditional economic system. I’ll try to do that belief justice throughout this article in a way that is neither too philosophical or too niche to really have an impact. To understand the emergent new economy you’ll have to first expel, from your mind, the polarized socialism versus capitalism debate. Those –isms have been outdated and outmoded. By the same token we don’t want to throw these old systems away as they hold some fundamental DNA that has to be recycled into our new economy.
Snippets from Christine Milne's speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. 26 Sep 2012 "The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented - like democracy and politics - to help govern our relationships between each other, and between ourselves and the world we live in. If our economic tools are not getting the outcomes we want, making us happy, safe, healthy, better educated and fulfilled and protecting and preparing our country for an increasingly uncertain future in a world on track to be 4 degrees warming, then it is time our economic tools changed." "Most of the battles of political philosophy over the last two centuries have been about competing views of how to run an economy. Where the old economic right, broadly speaking, has sought to create a 'strong' economy and the old left sought to create a 'fair' economy, neither has grappled with how an economy can be strong or fair when ecological limits are being reached: 'without environment there is no economy'." "What is not excusable is that the old parties continue to do so. They have failed to keep up over recent decades when the huge ecological challenges of the 21st century - from accelerating global warming to food and water shortages, from air and water pollution to energy crises and resource depletion in a world headed to 9 billion people - have become overwhelming. How can we say we are working towards a strong or fair economy when we aren't addressing these challenges? Just as we hit the limits, the big old parties are moving closer to each other and further out of touch with what people and the real world need." "To set us on our new path, a path to an economy which serves the needs of people and nature, both for today and for tomorrow: We will need new economic tools; We will need to learn to do more with less; We will need to reprioritise our investments; and We will need sensible management of taxation and revenue to fund these investments. It is a case of rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle" "What will be different is that we will have replaced the idea that Australia's wealth is dependent on digging-it-up, cutting-it-down and shipping-it-overseas with the knowledge that our prosperity depends at a personal and collective level on our brains, on our health, on our creativity and on a healthy environment." "But are the Greens actually anti-growth? That depends on what you are growing and how it is measured. I am for growing natural, human, social, manufactured and financial capital and I am against growing global warming, species extinction, poverty, poor health, inequality, conflict and corruption." "The Greens want to see everyone given the opportunity to "practise the Art of Living", we want to see people lifted out of poverty, and we know that unless this is done while protecting the environment which sustains us it can only last a very short time. That is what growth is supposed to achieve. The problem is, we measure it with the wrong tools; tools which tell us we're growing when in fact we're not. If economic growth as it is currently measured isn't actually making us happier, healthier, cleverer or safer then it isn't real growth. If we are growing our economy in defiance of physical limits, that isn't real growth: it's a confidence trick."
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'Mary Mellor’s understanding makes an essential contribution to anyone wanting to know more about how the money system works and what its future could and should be. She takes the view that money is a public resource that should be used to provision human societies on the basis of social justice, wellbeing and environmental responsibility. A steady state economy would be possible if the money system was not driven by the demands of debt-based money, financial accumulation and profit-driven growth. Money should be reclaimed and democratised for the benefit of the whole of society and the natural world. I support that view wholeheartedly, and warmly recommend these films to anyone who wants to learn more and think what we should do about it.’ James Robertson, author of Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough.
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization considers the money problem within the broad historical and political context that has made the control of money and banking the primary mechanism fo...
The task is the analysis of these relationships and the contribution to the design of society and ICTs so that a participatory knowledge society can emerge.
ICT&S research deals with opportunities and risks of the knowledge society and the shaping of technology and social systems.
ICT&S research is a double process, consisting of (1) a process in which human actors design ICTs and in which it is analyzed how society shapes ICTs, and (2) of a process in which it is assessed how the usage of ICTs transforms society.
That ICTs are shown at another level than society here doesn’t mean that they exist outside of it. Rather, ICTs are an immanent part of society.
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In the new book "Enough Is Enough," the authors offer a path to economic success achieved without undermining the natural systems we depend on.
Wishes for 2013, finally. . .
As said from an unsuspected source:
New technologies, dwindling resources and explosive population growth in the next 18 years will alter the global balance of power and trigger radical economic and political changes at a speed unprecedented in modern history, says a new report by the U.S. intelligence community.
Slow Democracy helps citizens reinvigorate their communities by reconnecting with democracy. It is based on the book Slow Democracy by Susan Clark and Woden Teachout (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012).
With the exception of Zopa, Funding Circle and Ratesetter, and arguably Thin Cats on the P2B Lending side, most – like FundingKnight – are new entrants with the arrival of new P2P lenders quickly gathering pace.
The P2P Foundation is “an observatory of open, sharing, P2P and commons-oriented activities.” Playing host to numerous conferences and boasting 18,000 articles on the matter, the organization is a valuable hub of ...
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Peer production has often been described as a ‘third mode of production’, irreducible to State or market imperatives. The creation and organisation of peer projects takes place without ‘managerial commands or price signals’, without recourse to bureaucratic apparatuses or the logic of competitive markets. Instead, and mimicking the technical architectures upon which many peer projects are based, production is described as non-hierarchical and decentralised. Group dynamics are equally flattened out — and such flattening is captured, of course, in the very notion of the ‘peer’. This issue of the Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) seeks to scrutinise and advance these earlier understandings of peer production through the exploration of value and currency.
Charles Eisenstein frames an adaptive approach to lower rates of economic growth across the planet. As economic growth stalled in 2012, will 2013 be the year we learn to live without economic growth? We'll be releasing a second video with Charles in 2013 where he talks about other aspects of redefining prosperity, our educational system and the system reset we need. Check out our other videos to learn more about the end of economic growth. For more: https://www.facebook.com/extraenvironmentalist and http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com
Future Money
explains in plain language and convincing detail how our money system is propelling us toward the self-destruction of our species – and what we should do about it. Our present money system frustrates the well-meaning efforts of active citizens, NGOs and governments to deal with our present ills and problems – including worldwide poverty, environmental destruction, social injustice, economic inefficiency and political unrest and violence within and between nations. Failure to reform the world’s money system urgently and radically – that is, from its roots up – could bring disaster for human civilisation before the end of this century.
Future Money
shows clearly how our money system operates and how it could be reformed so that it acts for the benefit of people and society rather than the opposite, and describes the obstacles that currently prevent that reform.
There Is a Conflict between Economic Growth and: (1) Environmental Protection
A growing economy consumes natural resources and produces wastes. It results in biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, climate destabilization, and other major environmental threats. (2) Economic Sustainability
A healthy environment is the foundation of a healthy economy. We need healthy soils for agriculture, healthy forests for timber, and healthy oceans for fisheries. Along with clean air for breathing and clean water for drinking, these are the building blocks of a prosperous economy and a good life. (3) National Security and International Stability
When economic growth threatens the environment and economic sustainability, social unrest is the result, and national security is compromised. Economic growth was once used for building military power, but in an overgrown global economy, economic sustainability is more conducive to diplomacy and stability among nations.
"William Hoyle, founder of techfortrade.org and director of the 3D4D challenge talks about the potential of 3D printing technology to change the way we produce goods and overcome infrastructure difficulties in Africa."
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