Republished from Johan Söderberg: “The third industrial revolution might come with personal or digital manufacturing, when what used to be bought in a shop could be made at home with such tools as laser cutters, 3D printers and computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines. They are all based on the same principle, using software to… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Green Governance, Human Rights, and the Commons
* Book: Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Commons. By Weston H. Burns and David Bollier. Cambridge University Press, 2013 The case for green governance, an excerpt from the introduction: “If the human species is to overcome the many interconnected ecological catastrophes now confronting us, this moment in history requires that we entertain… Continue reading
What monetary reform for the post-growth era?
Excerpted from Jem Bendell: “While more politicians promote new measures of progress, they remain fixated on increasing economic growth. Why this obsession? Do they simply prefer it to other measures of progress? Clearly that can’t be the reason. The answer lies in our current monetary system, which requires economic growth, as otherwise our money supply… Continue reading
Meeting P2P/Openness advocates in Minneapolis?
Next month I will be in Minneapolis to speak about the relationships between p2p/Open(standards, software, education, manufacturing…) and Catholic Social Doctrine at this symposium. I will present a paper titled “Catholic Social Thought and the Openness Revolution: natural travel companions”. I will have some time both before and after the event, so it would be great… Continue reading
The sharing economy and the new class warfare
It’s easy to think that if this trend continues, it might lead to a division of people into two classes: those who use the sharing economy services to live more comfortably, and those who are enabling this lifestyle because their income depends on it. Is this the future we want? Excerpted from Juho Makkonen, who… Continue reading
Lionel Maurel: Free Culture vs. Commons Culture (in French)
When I was invited by Communautique last year to speak in Montreal, the most impressive contribution was by Lionel Maurel, a young French legal expert on cultural rights and restrictions (free culture, IP, Creative Commons, copyleft, etc…). Here is a very interesting French-language interview concocted by the great video production team of Remixthecommons, and entitled:… Continue reading
The Spanish P2P Wikisprint on March 20
This is our first P2P Foundation Wikisprint and we are really excited about your participation in mapping and expanding Spanish language P2P resources. So please get involved and help spread the word. David Bolier has written a great overview which we reproduce for you here. Originally posted – http://bollier.org/blog/spanish-p2p-wikisprint-march-20 “Next Wednesday, March 20, a fascinating… Continue reading
Revolutionary Plots: Key citations on P2P in Agriculture and Food
Find the sources here: …everything old is new again. The resurgent interest in local foods and home-scale preservation—from canning, jamming, freezing, brewing, fermenting, and otherwise experimenting with food—is happening coast to coast. Taking up the pot and the pan, the cheesecloth and strainer, the canning jar and the wine bottle, homesteaders are beginning to reweave… Continue reading
New Italian book on peer-producing society through common good enterpreneurship: Societing Reloaded
“We at AOS have contributed a chapter about the emergence of ubiquitous, peer-to-peer, forms of intelligence in the city, and on its effects and transformations on how people learn, work, express, collaborate, communicate, relate and perceive their environment: the co-creation of the city.” * Book: Societing Reloaded. Pubblici produttivi e innovazione sociale. Curated by Adam… Continue reading
On the necessary “value revolution”
“By attaching too much emphasis on self-interest and personal gain in relation to the concept of sharing, the altruistic aspects of sharing could be undermined and the more benevolent motivations of those who share could be increasingly ignored … the evidence suggests that those who share because they are told it will save them money… Continue reading