Reposted from The Laura Flanders Show. What would students in debt, worker coops, and entrepreneurs stand to gain from a public bank in the financial capital of the world? This week, putting communities over commodities with leading figures in the fight for a new economy for working people. Is a Public Bank in the financial… Continue reading
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What is Community Composting?
Past attendees of the National Cultivating Community Composting Forum & Workshop share their answers to the question, “What is Community Composting?” Community composters serve an integral and unique role in both the broader composting industry and the sustainable food movement. They are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that are collecting food waste by burning calories… Continue reading
Sweat Equity: How Uruguay’s housing coops provide solidarity and shelter to low-income families
Daniel Chavez: Uruguay’s housing cooperatives are a successful and proven alternative for the provision of shelter and related urban services to low-income families, as well as a vibrant social movement. With over 25,000 families organised in 560 cooperatives, this programme is one of the world’s most ambitious and radical attempts to solve the housing crisis,… Continue reading
Better Work Together – The Book!
Better Work Together: How the power of community can transform your business. The book will be reflective of quite a few people’s thinking – a real community effort, coordinated by a strong core team. It will be mixture of short essays, personal reflections, collective thinking and really practical guides. It’s being written to be relevant… Continue reading
Project of the Day: The Algorithm Observatory
Social media platforms watch us. But who watches them? Part media literacy project and part citizen science experiment, Algorithm Observatory is a global collaborative lab for the empirical analysis of social computing algorithms. We are currently in the prototype stage, which only allows you to study Facebook advertising algorithms. Join us! Click here for more info about… Continue reading
PeerTube, a free and federated video platform
Help our friends at Framasoft with their crowdfund and take back control of your videos! Pledge your donation here. What is Peer Tube? PeerTube is a practical answer to all video-tubes that centralize our data and attention. With it, videos can be hosted by the people, with the people, for the people. PeerTube is a… Continue reading
Holo: The evolution of cloud computing
If you’re looking for good, accessible resources on Holo and Holochain, you’ve come to the right place. Up above you’ll find a video presentation by Nancy Giordano (the slides are below). Additionally, we’re republishing a post by Matthew Schutte on Holo’s impressive potential. Nancy Giordano presents Holochain from P2PF Holo: The evolution of cloud computing… Continue reading
A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
Our colleague James Quilligan alerted us to this video. Worth paying attention to. Originally published at TED. From the shownotes to the video Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: “We could have a tipping… Continue reading
Transformative Cities 2018 People’s Choice Award. Vote Now!
These 9 experiences have been selected after an evaluation process of all the initiatives that applied to our Open Call. 32 of them are portrayed in the Atlas of Utopias. The evaluation was carried out by a multidisciplinary and multinational team of evaluators. The goal of the voting is not to put one experience above others; there… Continue reading
Crowdfunding: New Economy Programme
We talk about making ‘communities stronger’ and creating a ‘fairer economy.’ But these approaches are still struggling to significantly impact our society and economy — 80% of the UK’s freelancers are living in poverty, Black African women earn 19.6% less than White British Men, 27 pubs are closing every week as part of a wider… Continue reading
Pablo Soto from Ahora Madrid on Open Sourcing Democracy
The councilor for Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the City of Madrid, Pablo Soto, explains the municipal participation model Decide Madrid in a round table discussion, “Open Government to renew democracy and rebuild the confidence of citizens.” This talk was included in the Open Government Partnership day, held in parallel to the 72nd… Continue reading
Learn to Play Commonspoly: London, Thursday May 3
Hello friends, this Thursday, May 3, I’ll be holding an informal get together and workshop in London on the Commons along with a game of Commonspoly. This is a hacked version and critique of the game Monopoly, where the goals are to first re-municipalize private goods and, then, turn them into Commons. Rather than compete… Continue reading
The Plot: A short documentary on a community garden
The Newton Commoners Plot for Renewing Community The Plot is more than interesting. It touches something deep within us – the yearning for connection, for conviviality, for joining up with people in a shared place that together we can co-create, a place where community can be meaningfully experienced and strengthened. I discovered ‘The Plot’ in… Continue reading
Every One Every Day: London neighbourhood resilience and commons at work
Great case example of resilience principles at work, the extending of the commons and community economic development all wrapped up in a 4 minute video. Find out more at Participatory City
Elia Kagel on Curating for the Commons in the Berlin Supermarkt Coworking Space
Here is an excellent and clear interview with Ela Kagel on Supermarkt on the cultural commons space in Berlin. Growing together with others: an interview with Ela Kagel of SuperMarkt In this conversation Ela Kagel describes how the collectively-run project SUPERMARKT emerged and developed over the last years. Based in Berlin, the aim of the project… Continue reading
What is Open Source Circular Economy?
What is Open Source Circular Economy? A video in English explaining Circular Economy and why it is in combination with Openness a promising pathway to a sustainable future on this planet. I started a Youtube channel, and here is the first video I made: One more time on “What Is Open Source Circularity?” It is… Continue reading