Framing "political action" as primarily state action, rather than a component of the new counter-institutions the kind of false dichotomy we need to avoid.
How do we sustain economic growth in a world of finite natural resources and a growing population? With natural resources becoming ever more difficult t
During the mid-1980s, a Yugoslavian radio show broadcast computer software live so that listeners could record games and electronic journals onto cassettes.
A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
Sharing is not an opposite of ownership nor a panacea. But we can make use of existing resources rather than create everything we need.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED BOOK P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P COLLABORATION P2P LEGAL DEV. P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING
A Global Event takes place between June 9-13, 2016 to Develop a Sustainable Circular Economy through Open Source Collaboration. OSCEdays is an open, distributed and globally connected event. Experts, enthusiasts and innovators from across the globe work together in order to exchange ideas and solutions – prototyping systems, products and designs for an Open Source Circular Economy.
OuiShare Fest is a gathering of international thought-leaders, change-makers and doers, brought together to share ideas, challenges, experiences and more
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P LIFESTYLES
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.
Remanufacturing allows us to use product components again at high quality while reducing energy demand by – in some cases – 80%. Given the material constraints we face, why this is not happening at a wider scale? In this episode, Nabil Nasr puts forward what he sees as the issues holding back remanufacturing.
Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
The Precious Plastic project provides open source designs and instruction manuals for the free sharing of cheap DIY machinery to recycle plastics everywhere
Paul Vigna explains how Bitcoin currency and the blockchain distributed ledger system are laying the groundwork for alternatives to today’s monetary system.
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 →
All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, making the published concepts un-patentable
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COPYRIGHT/IP CULTURE & IDEAS FEATURED PROJECT P2P ART AND CULTURE P2P TECHNOLOGYbui
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
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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