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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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A European Cooperative Society(SCE) that creates toolkits for self-management, self-employment, economic autonomy and financial disobedience for individuals and groups striving for fairer social and economic relationships.
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Unless technologies are explicitly designed to reduce inequality, they wind up exacerbating it. Reflections on Yochai Benkler's closing remarks at Ouishare.
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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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Paul Vigna explains how Bitcoin currency and the blockchain distributed ledger system are laying the groundwork for alternatives to today’s monetary system.
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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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 →
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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
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A on change how we view plastics: from a waste product that is clogging up our oceans, landfills and animals, to a valuable resource for makers
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY DEFAULT FEATURED PROJECT OPEN CONTENT OPEN INNOVATION OPEN MODELS P2P MANUFACTURING
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Announcing the launch of a new grassroots initiative to explore and promote the notion of a Credit Commons and inter-operable currencies.
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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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Creative Commons licensing is the smart way to distribute local or national news content when the goal is maximum impact and outreach.
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You are invited to participate in this survey conducted by the research teams from the P2Pvalue project, in which the P2P Foundation is a consortium member. In the research project P2PValue we study what we call peer to peer (P2P) communities. With this we mean networks of people who freely collaborate around a common goal,... Continue reading →
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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.
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This network is more about a specific attitude to, or approach to co-operation. This includes new ways of working to enact democracy and equality.
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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs).
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During the mid-1980s, a Yugoslavian radio show broadcast computer software live so that listeners could record games and electronic journals onto cassettes.
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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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As “death star platforms” such as Airbnb and Uber continue their pursuit of global domination, an alternative is rising in its wake: Platform Cooperatives.
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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
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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
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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
jean lievens's insight:
BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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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.
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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"The state is like a household that should not spend more than it earns" This kind of ‘handbag economics’ draws its analogy from erroneous myths.
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PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event held in Barcelona to discuss commons-oriented approaches to public policy, peer production and the collaborative economy.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES COOPERATIVES CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED VIDEO OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OPEN GOVERNMENT ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING VIDEOS
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