* Article: The uneasy transition from supply chains to ecosystems. The value-creation/value-capture dilemma. Soumaya Ben Letaifa. Management Decision, Vol. 52 No. 2, 2014pp. 278-295 From the Abstract: “This paper uses the multidimensional definition of value – ecosystemic value – and employs lifecycle theory to identify the different stages of evolution of value-creation and -capture processes… Continue reading
The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. Last August, 200 people from across Oakland, California came together to envision and design a development plan for a small parcel of public land. For months leading up to that day, community members and… Continue reading
In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections, smartphones and data, the future vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use digital networks in intelligent, strategic ways. While we are accustomed to thinking of cities as geophysical places governed by mayors, conventional political structures and bureaucracies, this template of city governance is under… Continue reading
I was allowed by Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen to publish the first half part of this extraordinary interview with who is in my eyes the most important female thinker of Norway. I was lucky to meet Janne Eikeblad at the Scandinavian Permaculture Festival back in 2013. Read Eikeblad’s own introduction to the interview at her blog here…. Continue reading
We invite all people interested in data visualization and the collaborative economy to showcase their creativity! Participants should develop visualizations which allow identification of new relations among data gathered around the Commons Collaborative Economy in the P2P value project (and also the recent Catalan version of the directory). It will be a space to highlight your skills, give visibility to… Continue reading
As there are two models of productive communities –one that sees itself as a “society of friends” and one that defines itself as a “collectivist germ”-, there are basically two models of community growth. In the “society of friends” model, the procedure is “experiential”: the community’s growth starts from and relies on those who share… Continue reading
If you watch the mainstream cable news networks and news analysis programs, you’ve no doubt seen, many times, talking head commentators rolling their eyes at any proposal for reform that differs too radically from the existing institutional structure of society. That much of a departure would be completely unrealistic, they imply, not only because it is an arrogant… Continue reading
An interesting proposal circulating in the Enspiral community. Excerpted from Joshua Vial: “Business has become so good at growing that it has deeply corrupted our governments and media. It has weakened the critical constraints on growth, and our planet is starting to look like a barrel of flour full of weevils, headed for collapse. There… Continue reading
From their site: “The purpose of the association is to promote science and research, the arts and culture, and adult and vocational education in relation to Commons. Commons are institutions in which people in a self-determined way organize reproduction and / or production based on common resources, jointly meeting their needs while also re-/producing the… Continue reading
The following article presents a debate that was first published on From Poverty to Power, a conversational blog maintained by Duncan Green. It is kicked off by Kate Raworth, renegade economist and development re-thinker, who feels that degrowth has outgrown its name. In reply Giorgos Kallis, the world’s leading academic on degrowth, counters with the… Continue reading
For the last year, we’ve worked hard to make our community experience useful to anyone who was interested. The first part of this work materialized in “The Book of Community.” Later, we delved into getting to know egalitarian communities, especially the Israelite kibbutzim movement, with the series “Laying the foundations for communitarianism.” We found key… Continue reading
Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real (With Special Regard to Paul Mason’s Post-Capitalism) Download a PDF copy of Kevin Carson’s full C4SS Study: Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 20 (Spring 2016) I. Capitalist Techno-Utopianism from Daniel Bell On II. Categories of Leftist Techno-Utopianism III. Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms John Holloway Michel Bauwens Accelerationism IV. Analysis: Comparison of the… Continue reading
A great infographic on the workings of the Fifth Season Cooperative stakeholder model. Originally posted by John Duda at CommunityWealth.org We first learned about the innovative, multistakeholder Fifth Season Cooperative in Wisconson’s 7 Rivers region from the community wealth builders at Gundersen Lutheran Health Systems, whom we interviewed for one of the case studies in our report Hospitals… Continue reading
By Charles Siegel from the Preservation Institute. Original post here. A century ago, the left’s politics was based on a very clear idea of the good life: everyone should have decent housing, decent health care, decent education. At a time when people lived near what we now consider the poverty level, just giving people these… Continue reading
A great explanation of network dynamics using multiplug outlets as a metaphor. The article text is by Filip Visnjic and it was originally published in The Creative Applications Network Created by Shanghai based design consultancy automato (Simone Rebaudengo + Matthieu Cherubini + Saurabh Datta),working in the field of IoT/networked and autonomous objects, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network… Continue reading
P2P Foundation colleague and Asia Institute Founder Emanuel Pastreich writes the following open letter to the Citizens of Facebook. This article was originally published in the Huffington Post. Dear Citizens of Facebook: Facebook is much more than Mark Zuckerberg’s server farms and his army of coders. Facebook is the most effective means today for people… Continue reading