Not More – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Better, Not More — aka Buen Vivir https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/better-not-more-aka-buen-vivir/2015/04/29 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/better-not-more-aka-buen-vivir/2015/04/29#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:00:40 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=49843 Here is an inspiring five-minute video about the quest for a new post-growth economic system.  “Better, Not More,” was produced by Kontent Films for the Edge Funders Alliance, and was released last week at a conference in Baltimore. The video is a beautiful set of statements from activists around the world describing what they aspire... Continue reading

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Here is an inspiring five-minute video about the quest for a new post-growth economic system.  “Better, Not More,” was produced by Kontent Films for the Edge Funders Alliance, and was released last week at a conference in Baltimore. The video is a beautiful set of statements from activists around the world describing what they aspire to achieve, especially by way of commons.

The vocabularies and focus for the idea of “better, not more,” obviously differ among people in one country to another. Buen vivir is the term that is more familiar to the peoples of Latin America, for example. But as the growth economy continues its assault on the planetary ecosystem, cultivating an ethic of sufficiency — and developing the policies and politics to make that real — is an urgent challenge.

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