Migration and borders, municipalism and the commons are the axes of a Festival of art and politics that invites dialogue and participation In conjunction with the Madrid European Commons Assembly, part of the P2P Foundation team will be present at the TRANSEUROPA festival. Come join us! European Alternatives’ (EA) Biennial Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary… Continue reading
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The Internet is under attack: This is the Battle for the Net
Reposted from Battle for the Net. What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers like Comcast & Verizon should not control what we see and do online. In 2015, startups, Internet freedom groups, and 3.7 million commenters won strong net neutrality rules from the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC). The rules… Continue reading
Share to Transform Cities for the Common Good
Why Shareable? Economic inequality. Political instability. Environmental crisis. These are challenging, divisive times. But there’s a strong movement of people who are strengthening their communities by creating tangible, replicable solutions based on sharing and collaboration. All around the world, there are countless stories of people working together for the common good — stories of people… Continue reading
Pollinating Prosperity: Michael Shuman on how to incubate generative economies
Most local administrations are promoting start-up incubators whose very models of business development often create a huge leakage for the local economy. Michael Shuman calls for local incubators who have a generative effect on the local economy, which he explains very cogently in this video: ‘Pollinating Prosperity’, presentation by local economic development expert Michael Shuman… Continue reading
Patterns for Decentralised Governance and why Blockchain Doesn’t Decentralise Power… Unless You Design It To
I recently gave a talk at the re:publica conference in Dublin. Every time I go to one of these internet-and-society conferences I get very grumpy about the blockchain hype, so today I used my stage time to spell out my grumpiness. Here’s what I said… Civilisation ❤️ trusted databases It might help to think of blockchain as… Continue reading
Incubator.coop: an Incubator for Platform Cooperatives
Incubator.coop is an incubator for new CoOp businesses. Incubator.coop is a CoOp itself. This means we exist to serve our Members. To be even more precise, we are type of CoOp known as ‘non-distributing’ – so any surplus at the end of the year goes into improving the incubator – not distributing funds to… Continue reading
Autogestió: adventures into the new economies of Catalonia
In May 2015 we posted this crowdfund appeal from Enfable for a film including a discussion of the CIC (Cooperativa Integral Catalonia), and now here is the final film. Catalonia is at the forefront of new economic thinking. They are a region rich in social currencies and in projects and people creating functioning post-capitalist societies…. Continue reading
Video: David Suzuki on Economics as a form of brain damage
David Suzuki , in this excerpt from the 2011 documentary “Surviving Progress.”, stresses the dangers of any thinking and practice based on the abstraction of money, which leads to ignoring the hard material realities of the environment and the planet. He explains how conventional economics is delusional (like a form of brain damage) by systematically… Continue reading
Daniel Christian Wahl: From Sustainable to Regenerative Design
A must watch 1.30 minute intro explaining the “hierarchy” of steps towards true regenerative design by our contributor Daniel Christian Wahl. Photo by gufm
Defend the Sacred: No to oil drilling in Portugal!
Reposted from Defend the Sacred. Não ao Furo! Sim ao Futuro – No to oil drilling in Portugal! Nearly 1000 people from 40 countries form a large-scale human message on Odeceixe beach to stop plans for off-shore oil drilling in Portugal. The event was part of “Defend the Sacred: Envision a Global Alternative” hosted by… Continue reading
Support Ignite TV! A Commons-oriented viewer-owned station
From wnd.com: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to own a TV Channel? Well, now you can be one of the owners of a new TV channel called Ignite TV. The media has long been controlled by a select few and they have often used this platform irresponsibly and arguably contributed significantly to shaping… Continue reading
James Ehrlich on the Self-Sustaining ReGen Villages
This is great presentation on integrated sustainable villages, which will be pioneered in the Netherlands. 70k houses are planned by 2024. From TedX: Smart house inside of the dumb neighborhood does not make sense! James explains in his talk how to build regenerative communities that produce more organic food, clean water, renewable energy and mitigate… Continue reading
Money and Society MOOC – starts again August 20th 2017!
This is a trailer of the first minutes of lesson one of the Money and Society MOOC: a free online course at Masters-level will enable you to understand the past, present and future role of money in society. The MOOC runs for one month, with four lessons. Each lesson begins on a Monday, consisting of… Continue reading
Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?
Even though Creative Commons licenses have been around for more than a decade, I am always surprised to learn that many progressive-minded activists, artists and academics – the people who should be most enthusiastic about the licenses – know nothing about them or at least don’t use them. A big welcome, then, to a new… Continue reading
De Besturing – From tenancy to collective ownership
Quite a few European cities, like Ghent in Belgium, are initiating policies for the temporary usage of empty city spaces by civic coalitions, up until the time when real estate companies start re-developing these urban areas. While offering temporary solutions, this policy does not directly challenge neoliberal real estate speculation and the lack of space… Continue reading
The Origin of Spaces: Bordeaux
#OOS BORDEAUX: Ecological Transition “We wanted Darwin to be about inventing new ways of working, new ways of doing business, new ways of enjoying life. It was about reinventing the city. From the outset, our ambitions came up against the limits imposed by environmental concerns, at a time of major upheaval, resource shortages, and, whatever… Continue reading