A quote from David Harvey, chosen by David Bollier from Red Pepper magazine: “All commodities have to be understood as having a use value and exchange value. If I have a steak the use value is that I can eat it and the exchange value is how much I had to pay for it. But… Continue reading
A transpartisan path beyond left and right?
Excerpted from Tom Atlee: (version without links, the original has many links to the movements mentioned in the text) “I often say “Things are getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster simultaneously.” Well, it seems that even as polarization is increasing it is starting to dissolve into a more productive reality…. Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Commons Health Care
Commons Health Care = a commons healthcare system … would recognize, promote, and preserve health promoting activities and institutions such as farmers markets, community gardens, better food access, and increased farmland, clean air and clean water. Discussion Jay Walljasper: “For health care activist and researcher Jamie Harvie, good health depends on more than just a… Continue reading
Ripple payment protocol goes open source
Ripple is a trust-based system of money transfer (a payment protocol) that supports different currencies. It was developed up to a certain point by Ryan Fugger, but more recently a group of programmers connected with Bitcoin called Opencoin.Inc took over the further development and deployment of the Ripple payment protocol. Opencoin.Inc introduced a native Ripple… Continue reading
P2PValue Project
We are delighted to announce the kickoff of the P2PValue Project in which the P2P Foundation will be collaborating for the next three years. Here is the project outline: Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a new and increasingly significant model of social innovation based on collaborative production by citizens through the Internet. This project… Continue reading
How Greer’s catabolic collapse challenges Kevin Carson’s ephemerilisation thesis
John Michael Greer has responded to Kevin Carson’s argument in this blog: Excerpts! ” Carson’s claim is that the accelerating breakdown of the existing infrastructure of industrial society isn’t a problem, because that infrastructure either is being replaced, or is sure to be replaced (he is somewhat vague on this distinction), by newer, better and… Continue reading
The Guaranteed Minimum Income as an alternative to the Basic Income
Excerpted from Francine Mestrum: “However much one may want to introduce a universal system of social protection with individual rights, if a BI implies that a substantial part of society would have to live with an amount beneath the poverty line, it is not convincing. In view of the fact that higher classes do not… Continue reading
Project of the Day – Open Sauces
Project of the Day – Open Sauces = “Open Sauces is a collection of projects, writings and events related to sharing of food, food culture and food systems”. Description “Open Sauces is a collection of projects, writings and events related to sharing of food, food culture and food systems. Although their format might change,… Continue reading
Ecuador Public Radio interview with Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens was recently invited to appear on Ecuador Public Radio for the programme La Cabina, to discuss peer-to-peer economies, alternatives to copyright and propietary technology, and what this all means in the Ecuadorian context. The interview is in Spanish and English.
On the SIMPOL initiative (2): interview with the founder John Bunzl
We presented the International Simultaneous Policy Organization as P2P Movement of the Day on October 8. Interview of John Bunzl, conducted by PCDN’s Maha Hilal : On Simpol * Can you talk about the concept of Simpol and talk about the types of policies that fit within the Simpol purview? Sure. The whole idea of… Continue reading