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Date archives "May 2014"
Interview with Simona Levi Partido X #EP2014
Source – https://occupywallst.org/article/anti-party-party-x-party-selects-candidates/ Can you imagine a political party that requires no membership or dues, that crowd-sources its funding, publishes every expenditure online, invites all citizens to help amend its platform, loathes the cult of the candidate, provides a direct vote mechanism for all citizens to hold its candidates accountable if they break a campaign… Continue reading
What should we think about the prospects of 3D Printed Housing
A contribution by Eric Hunting: “Recently, a number of articles and videos about 3D printing of houses in China have gone viral, catalyzing a lot of attention for this very promising subject. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140401-10-completely-3d-printed-houses-appears-in-shanghai-built-in-a-day.html Additionally, another 3D printed building project in the Netherlands is also starting to garner attention. 3D printing has gained steadily increasing popular… Continue reading
John Michael Greer on the End of Employment
Excerpted from a longer and more thoroughly argued article in his blog, John Michael Greer lays out his vision of what a useful occupation of your time will be in the future. Whether or not you agree with JMG’s thesis of a “long descent” into a post-industrial future, I really recommend reading the full piece. The people… Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin: “The Zero Marginal Cost Society”
“In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.”
Sourcemapping your computer parts
The insanity of unsustainable globalized transport, watch the video on the Source Map project here: “Sourcemap is the open collection of supply chains and environmental footprints. Visit sourcemap.com for more information.”
BUILDING ON RELATIONSHIP
Original text here. A note from Christopher Alexander Human relationship. There are two fundamentally different ways of understanding the word “relationship,” when it comes to human beings. Image: Øyvind Holmstad / Wikimedia Commons One of these ways is conventional: this can describe the relationships you have with a shopkeeper, or a policeman, or a banker, or, in very sad… Continue reading
Climate change: a challenge that goes beyond politics by Elizabeth Peredo Beltran
It has rained incessantly in the Bolivian Amazon and in the Valleys. The waters that have flooded our territory since January, are thought to be the result of the worst rains in 40 years. More than 60,000 families have been affected – meaning that at least 350,000 people have had to leave their homes. They… Continue reading
Video: New York Farm City
Watch the video about urban farming here: “In order to show how vegetables are grown in New York, we reversed what the plants do: We harvest in spring what we filmed in fall. This is a non-commercial, independent project created by Petrina Engelke and Raul Mandru.”
Policies for Shareable Cities 5: Job Creation and the Sharing Economy
For this, the final installment of our serialization of Shareable’s Policies for Sharing Cities Report, we look at jobs and jobs creation in the context of the Sharing Economy. Top image photo credit: Zach Klein. Excerpted from the Policies for Shareable Cities report. The sharing economy offers enormous potential to create jobs. Sharing leverages a… Continue reading
lifePOD: The Backyard Grocery Store
LifePOD are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to build new type of year round greenhouse. – http://www.fundafeast.com/P5337/lifepod-the-backyard-grocery-store Source : http://ecopreneurist.com/2014/04/24/answer-food-deserts-innovative-greenhouse-system/ A group of environmentally conscious entrepreneurs wants to bring fresh, local, organic food to backyards and communities around the world, and they’re doing it with a specially designed greenhouse system described as a “self-contained, year-round,… Continue reading
Helene Finidori on the Dilemma of the Commons
Excerpted from Helene Finidori: “On the one hand there is a huge enthusiasm to see how the grassroots identify with the commons in all types of activities, and push for their institutionalization and the entry of the commons through the front door as we have seen with de-privatization of water in Italy or ACTA in… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner on the need for IPV6
Here’s the always thought-provoking Dmytri Kleiner outlining a more feasible plan for national governments (and, in fact, for those of us who pressure national governments) in the effort to safeguard Net Governance. It was originally published on Dmytri’s blog. Many of my friends and colleagues were in Sao Paulo last week for NETMundial, the Multi-stakeholder Meeting… Continue reading
WePromise.eu – Digital Rights and the European Elections
Between the 22nd and the 25th of May European citizens will be heading to the polls to cast their votes on Europe’s Future. To put digital rights on the agenda a network of 36 European civil rights organisations and activists have joined forces in Brussels under the banner of European Digital Rights for the WePromise.eu… Continue reading
The Challenge of Community by Joel Dietz
Source : https://gist.github.com/fractastical/1f6ffc522328bd658d0a “Community,” it’s a word that sounds great but is difficult to implement in practice. Partially, probably what we mean is that warm feeling when the people around us show they care about what they are doing. When we shop at the local market and are greeted by familiar smiling faces, we experience… Continue reading
Thomas Piketty Discusses, “Capital In The 21st Century”
Watch the video here, a very interesting interview with the author of this landmark book: