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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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The Care-Centered Economy suggests how the idea of “care” could be used to imagine new structural terms for the entire economy.
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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
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Do you want to “make community” in your surroundings? The first three steps are simple… but have surprising results.
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City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and nature
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Six basic ideas and a practical and concrete community experience that’s very close to us.
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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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"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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Mainstream neoconservative integral theory predicts a next state of civilisation which is hyper-individualist and is a reaction against collectivist excesses
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If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. Excerpted from Isabell Lorey: (from the book: State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. by Isabell Lorey. Verso, 2015) “If we fail to understand precarization, then we understand neither the politics nor the economy of the present. …
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In-depth conversation about the role of love in the engaged life, a conversation with David Kim for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Watch the video here:
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Over the past 6 months the unMonastery has been going through a number of significant developments, explorations and experiments — these…
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about whether the big on-demand companies, such as TaskRabbit, Lyft and Uber, should classify their workers as employees instead of 1099 contractors, providing the benefits and protections that come with employee status. It makes sense. Freelance and on-demand workers are on their own when it comes to health insurance, retirement, disability insurance, expenses, emergency time off, and vacation pay.
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Nathan Schneider gives an introduction to the concept of platform co-operativism and why the digital economy can learn from the tradition of co-operatives.
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In this piece, Rahila Gupta investigates the importance and impact of womens' cooperatives in Rojava.
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Heather Menzies spoke to the Canadian Association of Clubs of Rome in Ottawa, Canada, on the theme “Living the Limits to Growth.
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Interfaces for Empathy’ explores the societal shift towards the consciousness of human species as a balanced part of the ecosystem we live at.
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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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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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A call for sharing is being expressed by campaigners, activists, progressive economists, academics and many more
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In 1800 only 3% of the world's population lived in cities, but this figure has climbed to 50% today. We need Sharing Cities more than ever.
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Can food be used as a way to bring strangers together, if only for a meal or two, and create the beginnings of a new type of community?
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Better late than ever, but the atmospherics of this video are an interesting reflection on peer production cultures amongst farmers. Watch the video here:
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Excerpted from LISA DEPIANO: “I came to permaculture via community organizing in the global justice movement and drew many connections between what I had learned about being a good organizer and the permaculture principles. The following is a list of 10 permaculture principles with an example of social permaculture in action. This was developed in …
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* The Book of Abundance. Reflections on abundance, economics, and community by the las Indias collective. Translated by Level Translation. Grassroots Economic Organizing, 2015. This excerpt was chosen by translator Steve Herrick: “Abundance exists when it becomes unnecessary to work out what is produced and what not, and above all, how much access to a …
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