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REVERSING THE MISSISSIPPI is a documentary about a genius technologist and a rebel educator, two pioneers from opposite spectrums with one goal in common: Build…
Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
Part research institute, part relational laboratory, part activist artwork, Ubiquitous Commons is hard to categorize.
The League of the Anchovy changes its statutes, name, and logo to become a tool for the network that was born over this last year.
Las Indias want to create spaces to contribute and collaborate, to co-produce with more people, and to provide an integral education for a good life.
This is excerpted from a long collective interview with Cat Johnson for Shareable magazine: The first question, excerpted in full here, was asked to the founders of various key coworking initiatives: * Shareable: What are the most surprising things you’ve see from the coworking movement in the last 10 years? Alex Hillman: I think about …
“Kristin Ross argues that a rich legacy of ideas and practices developed during the Commune – the workers’ democracy that ruled Paris for two-and-a-half months in 1871 before being violently suppressed – needs to be recovered for the twenty-first century. *” * Book: Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, Kristin Ross. Verso, …
Italians once again took the vanguard in advancing the commons paradigm by hosting a three-day festival in Chieri, on the outskirts of Torino.
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“The 21st century, he says, “shows signs of producing shifts in energy capture and social organization that dwarf anything seen since the evolution of modern humans.” If you read only one post-Naomi-Klein climate change essay this year, let it be the one by Margaret Atwood. In this essay, she focuses on how different energy regimes …
Listening to Vinay Gupta, master of resilience thinking for a world under threat, is always a feast and this must be one of the best conversations to get to know his thinking. At the start of this conversation, Vinay gives interesting details about the three big sources of his own evolution, and at the same …
* eBook: The Book of Community. A practical guide to working and living in community. (translated by Steve Herrick)Las Indias, 2015. This is an excellent and downloadable Kindle ebook written by the whole team of Las Indias and translated by Steve Herrick. The description is followed by some excerpts chosen by Steve Herrick: “This book, …
The article mentions new players in the field of social travel: Localoids and Horizon, Tripping, BeWelcome, Trampolinn, TrustRoots, Nightswapping, Voyaj. Excerpted from NITHIN COCA: “Couchsurfing changed not only my life, but how I traveled and saw the world. It was how I met several of my best friends. Today it is a shadow of its …
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Copylove is everything we produce and reproduce that can take us closer to "good living", to a sustainable living, and not simply in monetary terms.
“You Can’t Have it All”, writes Douglas Rushkoff for CNN: (sent by the author via email) “Technology has always been about choice: Fire allowed us to choose to live in colder climates. Electric lighting offered us the choice to read at night. Drugs give us the freedom to choose stressful, self-destructive lifestyles. And digital technology …
Shareable's Neal Gorenflo recounts the high points of the recent Somero 2015 event in Gijón Spain
The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
The sharing events happening around the world this fall are bound to spark ideas for new ways to engage in the collaborative economy.
While there is no “politics of abundance,” there does exist the possibility of living in accordance with an ethic of abundance.
Reflections on the clash between our modern, western ideas of liberal equality and property, and the modes of being and knowing nourished in the Commons.
Well-done documentary by ‘VPRO Tegenlicht’, with english subtitles, on the explosion of bottom-up energy generating initiatives, inspired by the Danish island of Samso, and spreading to many other countries. Here is the description of the program: “”In the Netherlands, ordinary citizens are assuming responsibility for generating their own sources of energy through the installation of …
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in the coal energy culture – a culture of workers and production – you are your job. “I am what I make.” In an oil and gas energy culture – a culture of consumption – you are your possessions. “I am what I buy.” But in a renewable energy culture, you are what you conserve. “I am what I save and protect.” We aren’t used to thinking like this, because we can’t see where the money will come from. But in a culture of renewables, money will not be the only measure of wealth
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The Psychosocial Field The core elements of the psyCommons proposal are rapport, the quality of felt contact with others, chat, and learning from experience. This inevitably tentative handle on the human condition accounts reasonably well for our capacity to survive, recover and even flourish as a persons. And yet… And yet… rapport can dry up, …
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