Excerpted from Dan Hill: “Numerous cities have witnessed an explosion in crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding platforms throughout 2012. Following in the wake of the increasingly high-profile crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, and almost popping up at the rate of one every couple of weeks over the year, these include Neighborland, In Our Backyard (IOBY), YIMBY, SpaceHive, Brickstarter, Neighbor.ly,… Continue reading
Podcast of the Day: Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism
Podcast via Resonance Fm. Listen to the original here. Mark Fisher is the author of ‘Capitalist Realism, is there no alternative?’ From the shownotes: “On this week’s show Aaron Peters is joined by Mark Fisher author of ‘Capitalist Realism’ as they discuss some of the topics in his book and their relation to the Great… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: A History of Tech-Roots Organizing
While it’s tempting to get excited about the potential of global connectivity — tech-enabled pan-studentism! Millennials of the world unite! — it’s important to remember the barriers to a universal identity. The Internet diminishes the importance of geographic proximity and increases the importance of affinity, but the global student identity still raises big questions about… Continue reading
“The Times Are Urgent; Let’s Slow Down” an Open Letter
“The system is not the cause of our problems, it is a consequence of our separation from each other, a consequence of our complicity with our own destruction. In other worlds, we are the system we fight against” …..and later…..”If we beat the system at it’s own game, we’ve lost” “Civic society from all over… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Stephen Collis on the Metabolic Commons
“What if we imagined an economic totality that begins and ends with the commons?” Watch the video here: Details by Stephen Collis: “What if we imagined an economic totality that begins and ends with the commons — a new version of the C-M-C equation for a thoroughly globalized system, an economy pushing against its ecological… Continue reading
Book of the Day: What Then Must We Do
“argues that a new system, one that is not corporate capitalism and not state socialism but something new entirely, could “democratize the ownership of wealth, strengthen communities in diverse ways, and be governed by policies and institutions sophisticated enough to manage a large-scale, powerful economy.” * Book: What Then Must We Do? Gar Alperovitz. Gar… Continue reading
Conscious Shopping is a Sideshow!
Here is Stacy Mitchell on Citizens Movements and Policies for Relocalization! Watch the video here: Details: “In this TEDx talk, delivered on October 20, 2012 at TEDxDirigo‘s Villages conference at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, conference, ILSR Senior Researcher Stacy Mitchell argues for a new phase in the local economy movement. She notes that there’s… Continue reading
Geoff Mulgan: Are there two kinds of capitalism, predatory and contributory ?
Michael Brooks interviews Geoff Mulgan author of The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future . This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Watch the video here:
The emergence of smart citizens for a new urbanism
Excerpted from Dan Hill: “There are weak signals that, as institutional frameworks continue to crumble, citizens are increasingly actively engaged in decision-making about their city. Again, at its most viscerally obvious, we can see it in Tahrir Square, Occupy Everywhere, Croydon, Athens, or the underreported protests in urban China. But beyond those flashpoints, we can… Continue reading
Video: Mayo Fuster Morell on the Governance Model of the Wikimedia Foundation
Watch the video here via: Source: “Conference Wikipedia: Critical Point of view (CPOV). Institute for the network culture. Presentation: Wikimedia Governance: The Role of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Form and Geopolitics of its Internationalization. Amsterdam, March 2010.”