In a previous post we presented Nicholas Anastasopoulos’ paper on the crisis and the emergence of communal experiments in Greece. Today, we cite some excerpts from Nicholas’ work which refer to six community-driven, Greek projects: The Navarinou Park This is a case of communal gardening and of urban farming which was indirectly triggered by the… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Autonomy and Horizontalism in Argentina
* Book: Everyday Revolutions: Autonomy and Horizontalism in Argentina. Marina Sitrin. Zed Books. Introduction by the author, Marina Sitrin: “Throughout history, in numerous places and various eras, there are moments like 19 and 20 December 2001 in Argentina, when the ways in which we see things drastically change: something occurs that allows our imagination to… Continue reading
Monetary History (2) : The Tally System and the Governmental Origins of Money
Excerpted from Ellen Brown: (from chapter 5 of the book, Web of Debt): “According to Stephen Zarlenga, who has traced the origins and history of money in his revealing compendium The Lost Science of Money, the use of coins as money did not originate with merchants trading in the marketplace. The first known coins were… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Agricultural Development
Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Agricultural Development = MASIPAG is an acronym for Magsasaka at Siyentipiko Para Sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura, which translates to “Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development, Inc.” URL = http://www.masipag.org “Where Stallman and the Free Software Foundation seek to ensure that their GNU tools will always be available to programmers, MASIPAG demands that farmers be given… Continue reading
Tom Atlee on the P2P Virtue of ‘Potent Hope’.
Excerpted from Tom Atlee: “From what I can tell, most people think that hope is a kind of wishing that things will turn out ok: “I hope Pat likes me!” “I hope the brakes hold!” In some varieties of hope, there is also a bit of (optimistic) belief that things WILL turn out ok, usually… Continue reading
On the difference between Empathy and Radical Connection
Nurturing the courage and conviction to transform these systems is just as important as developing more empathy in ourselves and others. The idea of radical connection captures this combination perfectly. It’s a visceral recognition that we are part of something larger that urges us to act for the whole community’s benefit, and not just for… Continue reading
Toward Resilient Architectures 1: Biology Lessons
by Michael Mehaffy, Nikos A. Salingaros, originally published by MetropolisMag.com Among environmental designers, the word “resilience” is bandied about a lot these days: in some quarters, threatening to displace another popular word “sustainability”. Partly that’s a reflection of newsworthy events like Superstorm Sandy, adding to a growing list of other disruptive events like tsunamis, droughts, and… Continue reading
ROAR Magazine 2.0: Independent Media for Real Democracy
“As our democracy finds itself under attack by powerful corporate interests, and as the media and academia are increasingly turning away from the type of thoughtful reflection and socially-engaged research that could challenge this state of affairs, we feel that the time has come to take matters into our own hands. In 2014, we want… Continue reading
How To Address Between-Groups Cooperation ?
does individual, lower level between individuals cooperation entail between group, higher level cooperation? The answer is no. But not only there is no necessary connection, there are in fact plausible mechanisms whereby lower level cooperation actually decreases higher level cooperation Excerpted from Joao Fabiano: “However attractive the cooperative paradise may seem, it is not clear… Continue reading
Crisis and the Emergence of Communal Experiments in Greece
“The Crisis and the Emergence of Communal Experiments in Greece” is a working paper that was presented by Nicholas Anastasopoulos, a Greek architect and researcher, in the ICSA2013 conference held in Scotland with the aim to investigate the communal pathways to sustainable living. According to Nicholas, “the Greek crisis is only a speck, albeit a… Continue reading