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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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Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife and an Age of Stagnation
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COMMONS TRANSITION ECONOMY AND BUSINESS FEATURED PODCAST P2P ECOLOGY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICScommons tra
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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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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.
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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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BeautifUl text and appeal by Edgar Morin: “Now that the fantastic adventure begun in the 15th century has come to an end, the shout of Columbus’ lookout man takes on at last a planetary meaning: Land! Land! Even up to 1950-1960, we were living on a misapprehended Earth, on an abstract Earth. We were living... Continue reading →
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Distributed infrastructure, distributed renewable energy and distributed manufacturing enabled by P2P design, makes collapsing infrastructures obsolete
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What made you into an environmentalist? Think back over your life to an event that inspired you with care for some special part of our planet
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In the first of an occasional series, Sophie Jerram considers the history and current practice of commoning in New Zealand.
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"Things have to get worse before they can get better." To scratch this kind of talk is to reveal an old heresy beneath the veneer of common sense.
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True Accelerationism (5): John D. Liu on Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration Projects | P2P Foundation
A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction: “”It’s possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems.” Environmental film maker John D.
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A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. Excerpted from Larry Kopald: “According to a steadily increasing number of studies, it turns out we can blow by the goal of slowing climate change and actually reverse it. While we’ve all been looking to the atmosphere and the amounts of CO2 …
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In these locally defined and controlled, democratically operated organizations we see possibilities for a more human economy that is capable of transforming the very social and technical systems that make our current way of life unsustainable.
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Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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Before passing away, Richard Douthwaite wrote this important article, linking money to the energy supply.
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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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Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
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CONFERENCES GIFT ECONOMIES OPEN CALLS P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P ECOLOGY P2P EDUCATION P2P GOVERNANCE P2P LOCALIZATION P2P RESEARCH P2P TECHNOLOGY
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In a recent post Gail Tverberg lists three kinds of entropy that might have fatal consequences for our economy. This entropy might be compared with the high levels of sulfur in the steel that was used in the construction of Titanic.
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"Yardfarming: the process of turning unsustainable, resource-intensive lawns and otherwise underutilized green spaces into small food production sites"
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"More and more people are starting to understand that nature has a value that can't be measured in pounds of potential elk meat and truck loads of timber"
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As long as grief is not fully experienced, the reality and gravity of climate change won't feel real even if we're intellectually persuaded.
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In recent times I am finding myself caught between a sort of extreme techno-optimism inspired by new developments in technology which allow non-hierarchical organisation such as blockchain, Liquid Democracy or Loomio – and a kind of despair that the apocalypse is unfolding around us in the shape of the collapse of industrial civilisation and we... Continue reading →
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There is no true ambition or justice in a global climate deal that undermines the principles of sharing, equity and justice
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A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. “With sustainability at the core of the design, parts can be manufactured directly from digital files at ‘Microfactories’, reducing the costs and carbon footprint associated with molding, casting and machine use. Users could recycle parts indefinitely, replacing damaged bodywork or upgrading as …
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McKenzie Wark on Jason W. Moore‘s concept: “There’s a role then for what Moore calls the world-ecological surplus. He sketches an interesting view of the crisis of capital as related to the energy returned on capital invested. Expansions of labor productivity required expansions of ecological surplus appropriated from frontier territories. Moore also gestures to this …
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“POC21 was an international innovation community, that started as an innovation camp. The camp brought together 100+ makers, designers, engineers, scientists and geeks. In late summer 2015, we joined forces in a stunning French castle to prototype a fossil free, zero waste society. Our ultimate goal was to overcome the destructive consumer culture and make …
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