Excerpted from David Roberts: (the original has many links) “The biggest barrier to spreading renewable energy is its high up-front costs. Some of that is helped by state and federal financial incentives, but those are expected to decline sharply in coming years. However, there is a positive countervailing trend: innovations in the financing and ownership… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Alan Watts on Passionate Production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_cGjQSR80& Intrinsic motivation and passionate production are key to participation in P2P projects. In this wonderful short video spiritual teacher and zen master Alan Watts discusses the importance of living life to it’s full potential.
Feeding the 3D printer – how open source solution helps save on costs
3D printers need 3D ‘ink’. Mostly, that’s plastic that can be melted by the print nozzles and be deposited to produce the part being printed. The plastic comes in the form of a plastic wire – a filament that is quite costly: $ 40 to 50 per kilogram. John Robb’s Resilient Communities blog has a… Continue reading
Replacing profit maximization and extractive ownership with living enterprises and generative ownership?
Excerpted from Majorie Kelly: “Dominant ownership designs of today are built around profit maximization, central to that imperative is the need to grow. As Herman Daly and others have so eloquently articulated, the growth imperative threatens the living system of the Earth. When we take apart the system to see where this imperative resides, we… Continue reading
Living the peer-funded musical life: Amanda Palmer’s moving testimony
Rock artist Amanda Palmer, who collected $1.2 million from her fans through crowdfunding, movingly describes her experiences, from crowdsurfing via couchsurfing, to crowdfunding:
Tom Atlee on the rebirth of a p2p-based democratic journalism
Republished from Tom Atlee: “Below are two mind-bending stories about journalism, with profound implications for the functioning of democracy – including its death and potential rebirth. * 1: Mainstream Media Meltdown! ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY – Salon: This report is excerpted from ‘Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” – * 2. Bob… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: The “International Student Movement”
Excerpted from Zachary Bell: “On Nov. 14, 2012, tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of Montreal to express opposition to the proposed tuition hikes. Iain Brannigan, one of approximately 65,000 participants, often took part in the city’s frequent, massive student protests — but this day was uniquely exciting for him. As the University… Continue reading
GitHub is making peer production more peer-produced!
“GitHub, I believe, is doing to open source what the internet did to the publishing industry: It’s creating a culture gap between the previous, big-project generation of open source and a newer, more amateurized generation of open source today.” Excerpted from Mikeal Rogers in Wired, who argues that: This isn’t just a tool: We’re witnessing… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: The Embassy of the Commons in Poland
An information hub for everyone interested in spreading the Commons and P2P paradigms in Poland. An introduction by Petros of Freelab: “It is time to bring on some good. Some common good. Welcome to the Embassy of the Commons. The Commons is the methodology in which people organise around resources, to fulfill human needs in… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: Tom Atlee’s Co-Intelligence Institute
Tom Atlee: “Since 1996 the Co-Intelligence Institute has been developing theory and vision to promote what we call “wise democracy”. Much of our work has involved collecting and curating hundreds of existing techniques and resources that could be used to further that goal, weaving them into practical (r)evolutionary systemic possibilities. Very few people involved with… Continue reading