I discovered this video on a recent trip to Australia where I met with co-director Karl Fitzgerald, who is also the host of the excellent radio show, “The Renegade Economist”. Explains the rationale of the land value tax proposals as a way to solve real estate speculation: Real Estate 4 Ransom from Real Estate 4… Continue reading
What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It’s Complicated
There were high hopes for Diaspora*, a student project that got good help from crowdfunding, more than they had asked for, but what happened? An article in MotherBoard goes to great lengths of investigation and explanation to say how come Diaspora* hasn’t killed facebook yet … “after all this time”. The article makes it sound… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Money and Life
Can we use the opportunity of the economic crisis to re-discover real wealth and true prosperity and transition to a sustainable, equitable and restorative economic system for the 21st century? This project conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign to get started and has started to place draft interviews here. Here’s the trailer: Money & Life trailer… Continue reading
Ask Michel Bauwens Anything Part 1 (audio)
This is the first part of the audio version (see video version here) answering your questions to the P2P Foundation Reddit page: redd.it/11d4m7 based on the Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy report by the P2P Foundation and Orange Labs. James Burke gathered together the questions and recorded a converstion with Michel Bauwens to provide more… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Sharing for Survival
* Book: Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society. Feasta, 2012 This is a 200-page collection of essays by nine Feasta Climate Group members: ‘Sharing for Survival recognises that official climate policy is dominated by states in thrall to fossil fuel and financial lobbies. It offers a realistic radical way to rapidly… Continue reading
Video of the Day: The Reinvention of Localized Economies
37 minute documentary about the work of the late Schumacher, author of “Small Is Beautiful”. Here are the details: “”In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy… Continue reading
12 leverage points for whole-systems intervention
Source: Cultivating Resilient Culture
The Internet and Creative Networks in Eastern Europe, a historical approach
* Rasa Smite, Creative Networks, in the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History. Institute of Network Cultures, Theory on Demand Issue no. 11, 2012. Rasa Smite, the founder and curator of RIXC art center in Riga, Latvia, which focuses on the link between new media, art, and renewable energy, has produced a new book. Here’s… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Clay Shirky on the Organizational Advantages of Group Leadership
“Writer and new media consultant Clay Shirky talks about the newly emerging organizational advantages of group leadership, as opposed to the traditional forms of structural hierarchy from which organizations originally developed.” Watch the insightful video here:
P2P and the Commons as a Dual Boot strategy (2): Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff echoes the dual boot strategy earlier explained by David de Ugarte. Republished from the excellent Tikkun magazine. Douglas Rushkoff: “I know we’re not supposed to say such things, but I have lost faith in national politics. Yes, I’ll vote in the coming elections, and do my part to get the less sold-out, less… Continue reading