If you’ve participated in the gift economy, you may have encountered a pay what you want product or service. The developers of a free WordPress plugin may have featured a tip jar. Some musicians post albums and allow you to set the price. You may pledged a monthly donation to Wikipedia or even Nation Public… Continue reading
An announcement from our friends at the Mutual Aid Network. Stay tuned for a similar event to be held in the UK in September. August 22-28, 2016 Madison Wisconsin Mutual Aid Networks (MANs) are a new type of networked cooperative ‘creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with… Continue reading
The following is a second excerpt from a really interesting PhD thesis that interprets and critiques Rifkin with the assistance of other macro-historical thinkers: * PhD Thesis: Making Sense of Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution: Towards a Collaborative Age. McAllum, Michael J C. Thesis submitted to The University of the Sunshine Coast. Under the supervision of… Continue reading
This post by Robin Wall Kimmerer was originally published by Yes Magazine Singing whales, talking trees, dancing bees, birds who make art, fish who navigate, plants who learn and remember. We are surrounded by intelligences other than our own, by feathered people and people with leaves. But we’ve forgotten. There are many forces arrayed to help… Continue reading
Republished from Dave Elder-Vass: “For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on alternative ways of understanding the economy. Although that work has focused on the digital economy, many of the principles that emerge from it may also apply much more widely. One part of the argument I’ve been developing (in a book called… Continue reading
The “cancer of business” took over from the old European societies, feudal first and colonial centuries later, and smashed them from within in a long process of almost six hundred years. Capitalism, which started off as marginal—urban in a rural world, dynamic in a traditional society, equalizing in a system in which identity was based… Continue reading
The Romanian parliament unanimously passed an amendment to the country’s “Law on the Sale of Food Products” bill which states that every large supermarket in the country must ensure that 51% of the fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, honey, dairy products and baked goods they stock are “locally sourced”. The initiative goes against the EU dictum… Continue reading
The following is excerpted from a really interesting PhD thesis that interprets and critiques Rifkin with the assistance of other macro-historical thinkers: * PhD Thesis: Making Sense of Rifkin’s Third Industrial Revolution: Towards a Collaborative Age. McAllum, Michael J C. Thesis submitted to The University of the Sunshine Coast. Under the supervision of Dr. Sohail… Continue reading
This is part 2 of a 4-part series of conversations with activists from around the world. Pablo: During 15M, we didn’t have Telegram. Now, we’re the new government of activists and anarchists and so on, and we’re using Telegram all the time. To the point that the day that Telegram is offline for a short… Continue reading
Jose Ramos: Today’s economy is built on the foundations of a global industrial and financial system with immense productive capacity, but the extractive nature of which has created extreme income disparity and social injustice and wrought devastation on the natural world. There is an increasingly spirited debate about the need for a ‘new economy’, which… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation advocates a multi-modal approach to social change. This recognizes that the economy and society consists of different modalities of human production and exchange, that they have always co-existed, but in different configurations and that these configurations can be dominated by one of the modalities that will then ‘transform’ the others. Thus, for… Continue reading
I once saw a human lie detector perform at a conference – one of those guys who can call a dozen people up on stage and match them up with the objects that belong to them, or even “deduce ” their email passwords. He wasn’t doing magic, of course, but simply reading the cues and… Continue reading
We will be serially excerpting from this publication from our friends at Las Indias: Abundance within reach The massive development of the Internet through the ’90s profoundly changed ways of socializing, sharing, and working. Wealth was created in places that were socially and geographically peripheral by the hands of millions of small producers that, for… Continue reading
Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real by Kevin Carson. Read the full series here or scroll down for the PDF. As I noted at the outset of this study, there are two broad groups — sometimes using superficially similar rhetoric but in fact fundamentally opposed — that celebrate the emergence of a new kind of society based… Continue reading
Article written by Daniel Christian Wahl and originally published in Permaculture.co.uk A new generation of designers are applying ecologically inspired design to agriculture, architecture, community planning, cities, enterprises, economics and ecosystem regeneration. Join them to co-create diverse regenerative cultures in the transition towards a regenerative society. Humanity’s impact needs to shift from degeneration to regeneration before… Continue reading
Bruno Chies is a student from the University of Gothenburg who’s taken an interest in the work of P2PFoundation and is conducting this survey, with the support of Michel Bauwens. The results of this survey will be used (together with other data) in a paper to be presented at a conference, where Bruno discusses the… Continue reading