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jean lievens
October 19, 2015 2:36 PM
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Rob Hopkins introduces the Transition Network's new book compilation: '21 Stories of Transition'
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jean lievens
October 14, 2015 2:31 PM
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Excerpted from Peter Barnes: “How might a common wealth dividend system work at the national level? The easy part is distributing the dividends. As in Alaska, enrollment could be done online and payments could wired electronically at a cost of pennies per transaction. The Social Security Administration could set that up in a jiffy. The …
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jean lievens
September 30, 2015 2:33 PM
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Really brilliant presentation, strongly recommended:
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jean lievens
September 28, 2015 4:43 PM
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P2P & INOVAÇÃO is a new journal linked Grupo de Pesquisa Economias colaborativas e produção P2P no Brasil (Collaborative Economy and P2P Production in Brazil Research Group) from Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT). The second volume has just been published and includes, amongst others, articles authored by P2P Foundation collaborators. This …
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jean lievens
September 27, 2015 8:41 AM
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A campaign which highlights the true reality of poverty while pointing the way towards real solutions for a fair and sustainable world.
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jean lievens
September 23, 2015 12:55 PM
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Excerpted from Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: (go to the original for all the supporting links) “The new emerging paradigm is premised on a fundamentally different ethos, in which we see ourselves not as disconnected, competing units fixated on maximising consumerist conquest over one another; but as interdependent members of a single human family. Our economies, rather …
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jean lievens
September 17, 2015 12:12 PM
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The Sustainable Development Goals say that we’re on track to ending global poverty by 2030, but only by prioritising economic growth at all costs.
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jean lievens
September 11, 2015 9:35 AM
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* Article: Transforming the energy matrix: Transition Policies for the Development of the Distributed Energy Model. by George Dafermos, Panos Kotsampopoulos, et al. Part of a special issue of the Journal of Peer Production, on the Policies for the Commons. Here is the abstract followed by some excerpts: * Abstract “This policy paper examines the …
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jean lievens
August 27, 2015 2:31 PM
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The question that shook the world was a choice between a Plan A – more of the same, evidently failed austerity policies that made the country lose 25 percent of its GDP in five years – and a Plan B – a poorly designed Grexit, with unpredictable consequences that could mean the country’s sudden death.
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jean lievens
August 23, 2015 10:51 AM
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* Article: Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world. By JOSE LUIS VIVERO POL From the abstract: “This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food. Then, using the food regime theory and exploring the developments in the …
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jean lievens
August 19, 2015 4:15 PM
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* Article: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing. By George Dafermos. Journal of Peer Production, 2015 From a special issue of the JPP journal, dedicated to the FLOK Society Project proposals, which are now continued by the Commons Transition Project. Summary: “This policy document examines the …
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jean lievens
August 18, 2015 3:07 PM
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Excellent intro by Ellen Brown. * Watch the video here:
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jean lievens
August 12, 2015 3:27 PM
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“There’s nothing wrong with building utility-scale solar. But let’s be clear: it’s neither the most economic nor fastest way to green the electricity sector, and it cements centralized control of electricity system in an era of widespread decentralized innovation. And that may be too high a price to pay.”
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jean lievens
October 16, 2015 3:16 PM
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* Briefing Paper: Keeping Land Local. Reclaiming Governance from the Market. Land Struggles III: LRAN Briefing Paper Series, Saturday 25 October 2014 Here’s a summary: “The governance of land, forests, water bodies and associated “natural resources” has always been a deeply contested terrain, and one that has frequently resulted in conflicts among different actors who …
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jean lievens
October 14, 2015 1:11 PM
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#Global Goals? It's high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty
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jean lievens
September 29, 2015 2:43 PM
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is it possible that Klein’s analysis is right on the politics and the solutions, but incomplete in terms of an overarching strategy for how to get there?
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jean lievens
September 27, 2015 8:42 AM
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Labour’s new Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell speaks to Jon Snow about proposed policy approaches after the internal Labour Party election victory of Jeremy Corbyn, with half a million new members. McDonnell calls for local citizen assemblies to start working on participatory budgets. Watch this interesting video here:
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September 24, 2015 1:49 PM
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“I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model that prevailed in the post-war era. Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership. But public control should mean just that, not simply state control: so we should have passengers, rail workers and government too, co-operatively running the railways to ensure they are run in our interests and not for private profit. This model should replace both the old Labour model of top-down operation by central diktat and Tories favoured model of unaccountable privatised operators running our public services for their own ends.” Jeremy Corbyn
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jean lievens
September 17, 2015 12:46 PM
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A short report from George Dafermos: The commons and peer production occupy a strategic role in the (new) government programme that SYRIZA released today: http://www.syriza.gr/programma_syriza201509.pdf Indicatively, in the context of the productive transformation of the economy, SYRIZA commits itself to developing a productive model “aimed at strengthening those organizational models of production making use of …
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jean lievens
September 12, 2015 12:17 PM
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I explain this at the start of this 8-minute interview done at the Ouishare Fest. It also covers the theme, how to re-organize politics and policy in a context in which the power of salaried labor is shrinking in the Western countries. Watch the video here: Here is a summary transcript of the questions and …
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jean lievens
August 27, 2015 2:32 PM
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* Article: Commons for Peace. James Quilligan. Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2011 Summary: “Although the term ‘human security’ has various meanings, two have predominated.
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jean lievens
August 24, 2015 1:40 PM
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“If our present banking system, in addition to fraudulent and corrupt, also seems “screwy” to you, it should. Why should money, a public utility (serving the public as medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account), be largely the by-product of private lending and borrowing? Is that really an improvement over being a by-product of private gold mining, as it was under the gold standard? The best way to sabotage a system is hobble it by tying together two of its separate parts, creating an unnecessary and obstructive connection. Why should the public pay interest to the private banking sector to provide a medium of exchange that the government can provide at little or no cost? Why should seigniorage (profit to the issuer of fiat money) go largely to the private sector rather than entirely to the government (the commonwealth)?
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jean lievens
August 22, 2015 11:50 AM
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“There is an alternative to disaster capitalism and to the dictatorship of the financial markets. It requires a revolution in our concepts about money, share-capital, labour-remuneration and land-real estate. In this first volume by Michel Laloux, we discover a triple circulation of money – for everyday consumption, financing enterprises and the contribution to the non-merchant economy. This triple circulation of money is therefore at the service of the real economy and dispenses with the fictitious and with speculation. Three forms of monetary institutions are conceived as a new type of public service, run by civil society. These institutions will organise this threefold circulation, without recourse to investors nor to a central bank.
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jean lievens
August 18, 2015 3:38 PM
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“The Center for Planetary Culture is a new organization that uses the familiar structure of a think tank to explore cutting-edge ideas and practices. As part of our work, we consult, experiment, innovate, propose, propound and pontificate. We also incubate new media and technology projects. Our admittedly ambitious mission is to help humanity evolve to a new level of consciousness – to transition from competition and aggression to cooperation and symbiosis as our basic paradigm, shifting to a social model based on regenerative principles of design.” *
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jean lievens
August 15, 2015 3:14 PM
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“In Buenos Aires, an open source platform called Democracy OS, designed for citizens to get informed, to debate, and to vote on how they would like their representatives to vote, is reimagining politics. Democracy OS founder Pia Mancini discusses how the platform has changed the political landscape and argues that we need to further the conversation about innovation in the political system.”
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