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February 11, 2016 2:14 PM
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Eddy Adams of SIX interviews Penny Travlou about Options Foodlab and the work she's been involved in with refugees in Greece.
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February 6, 2016 4:00 PM
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FLOSS4P2P: Commons Collaborative Economies: Policies, Technologies and City for the People. Barcelona, March 2016
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February 3, 2016 3:44 PM
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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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January 31, 2016 3:35 PM
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Joshua Vial from Enspiral and Dev Academy shares thoughts on the art of entrepreneurship and his personal learning journey.
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January 23, 2016 9:45 AM
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Gail Tverberg in her post “2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle” concludes that we’re now on the end of a debt supercycle. Because debt is different this time, it’s very unlikely that we can enter a new supercycle. This has to do with the fact that we live in a finite …
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January 18, 2016 3:05 PM
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Excellent documentary, with english subtitles, about democracy in the workplace. Instead of the owners of capital renting worker’s time, the film proposes a reverse contract, i.e. the real producers rent capital, but run their own production processes. Watch the documentary here:
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January 17, 2016 4:19 PM
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Local connectivity is well within our technical means ... but it needs to be organised, says Mazi, the know-how put together and made available.
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January 9, 2016 10:16 AM
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Excerpted from Matthew Heskin : “Competition does not support sharing. Competition suggests that there is scarcity and supports a scarcity mindset. History has already proven that the “pie” is not a fixed size. Our “know how” changes the size of the pie even in the face of rapid population growth. We like to look at …
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January 7, 2016 10:19 AM
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This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. Dieter Duhm: “Democracy is a question neither of verbal commitment nor of the outer political form of a system. Rather it is a question mainly of the emotional state and structure of drives in …
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January 5, 2016 4:58 PM
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From an in-depth conversation of Robin Murray with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey for New Formations magazine: (Note from editor Michel Bauwens: please note that Robin here confuses our concept of Netarchical Capitalism with that of anarcho-capitalism or distributed capitalism) Robin Murray: “Platforms are a new kind of economy, in which you can talk about …
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January 3, 2016 6:31 PM
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At the OuishareFest of 2015, Rob Hopkins, Sara Horowitz, Neal Gorenflo, Lisa Gansky, Michel Bauwens, Pia Mancini, Albert Canigueral, Kathleen Stokes, Javier Creus, and Charles Eisenstein, answered the question: How can we all collaborate ? Watch their answers in this video at:
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December 28, 2015 4:31 PM
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By Eric Hunting: “What is the future of social interaction and organization on the Internet? What comes after Facebook and Twitter? One possibility is the Social-Semantic Network as explored in projects like Netention. A Social-Semantic Network is the application of Semantic Web technology to the coordination of human connections, exchanges, and communication through the automated …
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December 23, 2015 3:21 PM
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P2P Plazas: one year of research looking for interesting, challenging and inspiring autonomous experiences in Southern Europe
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February 8, 2016 12:13 PM
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The refugee fund will focus on helping autonomous and self-managed projects so refugees can retain full control over the decisions made in their lives.
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February 4, 2016 11:39 AM
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Benjamin and Francesca share how they collaborate as a large-scale international distributed community. (The conversation was conducted by Alanna Krause in the context of an investigation of how organizations use Loomio.) Watch the video here:
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February 1, 2016 12:16 PM
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Decentralization simply means building mechanisms which allow for a group of peers to efficiently arrive at decisions without having to rely on fixed hierarchies, central coordination and single points of failure. From an excellent article on the “Mike Hearn” controversy in the promising magazine Backfeed, excerpted from Julian Feder: “Since Hearns post mid january, the …
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January 24, 2016 1:28 PM
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Two days ago, we presented the article by Seth Ackerman in which he presented the ‘economic calculation problem’ and various solutions to it, ending his argument with a call for a form of socialized finance which would respect the autonomy of the firm. For a more in-depth understanding, see how I have processed his arguments …
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January 23, 2016 9:40 AM
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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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January 18, 2016 3:03 PM
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Community is a hot commodity and this creates an awkward situation for marketing. Danny Spitzberg on Pirate Metrics and the cooperative alternative.
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January 13, 2016 2:07 PM
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Excerpted from Robert Jensen: “When we come to terms with these challenges – when we face up to the fact that the human species now faces problems that likely have no solutions, at least no solutions that allow us to continue living as we have – then we will not be deterred by the resistance …
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January 9, 2016 10:15 AM
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This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. This is the final excerpt in this serialization of Dieter Duhm: “Building a humane community usually means confronting difficulties that are deeply rooted in the character structures of modern man and especially in the …
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January 5, 2016 5:01 PM
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A new anthology of essays, Build the City: Perspectives on Commons and culture,powerfully confirms that the “city as a commons” meme is surging.
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January 4, 2016 12:51 PM
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There is an urgent need for citizens to demand the pressing structural reforms needed to address interconnected social, political and environmental crises.
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December 29, 2015 1:30 PM
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For authors and their reader-communities, has conventional book publishing become obsolete or at least grossly inefficient and overpriced?
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December 28, 2015 4:17 PM
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The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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