“Michael Yaziji, professor at IMD http://www.imd.org focuses especially on the relationship between corporations, NGOs and government. He has a strong interest in issues associated with sustainability and the environment, and in the role of the corporation in a changing world. In his talk, he argues that the existing corporate structure is no longer optimally adapted… Continue reading
A French Open Source Energy Project
(via Christophe Santerre) A presentation by Geoffroy Levy: On The OPEN SOURCE ENERGY project: open and collaborative energy “As usual, he checks the control module. The load is good and the lights are green. He will spend a good night because he knows that tomorrow morning there will be enough power to heat the coffee… Continue reading
Knowable.org: a social network for makers, problem solvers and those that need them
Watch this introductory video: An introduction to knowable.org from knowable on Vimeo.
Wikispeed Europe Tour
Source: Benjamin Tincq If you care about the next big thing, what’s going to disrupt manufacturing and lead the way to a P2P, Open and Collaborative Economy, then you know about (or will love) WIKISPEED. The awesome Joe Justice pays us a visit for a series of open workshops and talks in Europe. See you… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner: Organizing Against Debt
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner: “If a modern monetary economy is to have either growth or savings it requires a deficit somewhere. This is not an opinion, or an ideologically biased point of view. It is an arithmetic fact based on the what money means in actually existing modern economies. The key identities here are the… Continue reading
An Introduction to Energy Economics
* Article: Degrowth, expensive oil, and the new economics of energy. by Samuel Alexander. Aug 7 2012 by Energy Bulletin. An excerpt from the Introduction by Samuel Alexander: “Some new research and data, reviewed below, has come to light that seems to confirm this essential message. Expensive oil, in other words, does appear to be… Continue reading
Remaking the Commons
The full issue it’s available in: http://reviewsinculture.com/special-issue/ Guest Editors: Matthew MacLellan and Margrit Talpalaru It is difficult to think of a political concept that has been as impoverished by decades of neoliberalization as “the commons.” It is has been almost four years since approximately three decades’ worth of market deregulation culminated in the worst economic… Continue reading
Re-Occupation 2.0?
By Suresh Fernando What do we do next? The question for revolutionaries in North America is to figure out how to activate the anaesthetized. But why are we anaesthetized? There is a realization, at least to some extent, that we are the ones responsible for the global ills; the reification of individualism and the exporting… Continue reading
Call for applications: Web-based course on Participatory Democracy, Urban Management and Crisis Capitalism
The Transnational Institute (TNI), in cooperation with the Brazilian research centre CIDADE and the Latin American Programme for Distance Education in Social Sciences (PLED) is offering a web-based course on Participatory Democracy, Urban Management and Crisis Capitalism. The course will begin on 10 September 2012 and will comprise a series of twelve weekly sessions. We… Continue reading
Permaculture, Nature & Civilization
Source: Permaculture Research Institute of Australia Permaculture was first a contraction of the words permanent agriculture, later being widened to include all permanent culture. The problem is, however, that culture is seen as opposed to nature, its contradiction. Ross Wolf writes: The concept usually opposed to “culture” is “nature,” as structuralist anthropology taught us long… Continue reading