Alexa Bradley: “The Detroit People’s Water Board isn’t waiting for someone else to solve Detroit’s water problems. This community coalition is taking an out-front role on everything from fighting water shutoffs and privatization schemes to helping create a watershed plan for the region. “Our name is a powerful statement,” says Priscilla Dziubek, a representative on… Continue reading
Date archives "April 2012"
Max Keiser: Financial resistance, using capitalism against capitalism
In this interesting presentation to the European Bitcoin conference, Max Keiser explains some of his innovative campaigns against the financial oligarchy, such as the Karma Bank project. Watch the video here:
Copyright stagnation
Source: offsetting behaviouroffsetting behaviour Paul Heald demonstrated the effect of the stagnant US copyright wall in seminar at Canterbury last week. Recall that books published through 1922 are in the public domain in the US; those published since then are covered by copyright. Heald dug through some Amazon stats to see what happens to books as… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Colne U Copia West Yorkshire Local Food System
Katherine Darling in STIR: “The community food sector as a whole has grown significantly over the past four and a half years,” she (Jennifer Smith) says. “But interestingly, it’s not just that the number of enterprises has grown; we’re increasingly seeing communities linking up different activities to create a local food system, with the ability… Continue reading
Share Or Die: In Print!
Malcolm Harris, editor of the book, says: Many of you have been asking since we first released the Share or Die ebook when we would come out with a print edition you could grab at your local bookstore (if you still have a local bookstore). When we first started the project, the answer to that… Continue reading
Occupy Monsanto!
Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world’s food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto during the week of September 17th,… Continue reading
Mark Pesce: what hyperconnectivity does to sharing and privacy
Excerpted from Mark Pesce‘s stimulating book, The Next Billion Seconds: “Ten thousand years ago sharing reached its natural limits at the boundaries of tribal kinship. Five thousand years ago, the walls of the city would have framed our span. Five hundred years ago, we could write our thoughts into a book, send it to the… Continue reading
A must watch video: Michael Hudson on Economic Rent
Really key to understand the economic meltdown and the crisis of public finances:
Video of the Day: The Emergence of a Commons Based Economy – The Quilligan May Seminars
Project of the Day: Transparency Life Sciences
Project site: http://transparencyls.com/ Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity. Interview Arlena Weintraub: “When Tomasz Sablinski was working in… Continue reading
5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion
Source: TorrentFreak Record labels and Hollywood have described The Pirate Bay as one of the biggest threats to their business, but thousands of artists clearly disagree with this view. In recent weeks more than 5000 independent artists have signed up to be promoted by the world’s largest torrent site. Those who were lucky enough to… Continue reading
A conversation with Max Keiser: getting to non-speculative economics
This dates back from last Christmas, but it is still full of insights and it’s good to hear Max Keiser in ‘calmer’ mode than on his own program, the Max Keiser report:
Book of the Day: How are we already designing Future Learning Spaces today?
Book / Conference Proceedings: Future Learning Spaces. Designs on eLearning Proceedings, 2011. Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss & Owen Kelly (eds.). Aalto University publications series, 2012. Designs on eLearning 2011, was undoubtedly one of the best organized and most stimulating conferences that I attented (and I attend a lot of them!). I hope that the written contributions, which… Continue reading
Crowd-Funding Open Source Permaculture
Source: Patricia Larenas Putting “open source” and “permaculture” together is a savvy combination, and in this case, it’s also really useful. Add “crowd sourcing” and you’ll have the complete online tool for all things permaculture. Sophia Novack, a self-described permaculture geek, is currently leading a crowd-funding campaign to support the creation of Open Source Permaculture,… Continue reading
Yochai Benkler defends Anonymous in Foreign Affairs
“Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen. Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices. Diffuse and leaderless, its driving force is “lulz” — irreverence,… Continue reading
Recommended Reading: Common Voices
David Bollier has read the last issue of Common Voices and recommends: “Common Voices is another great read on commons themes. Published quarterly by the Foundation for Ecological Security in Gujarat, India, Common Voices invariably has concept-busting articles about all sorts of unexpected and novel commons themes. It is refreshing to hear about the commons… Continue reading