Worth a Look: Civic Action at MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org Civic Action MoveOn.org brings real Americans back into the political process. With over 5 million members across America—from carpenters to stay-at-home moms to business leaders—we work together to realize the progressive promise of our country. MoveOn is a service—a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated …

Michael Bauwens: We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?

We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it? Mathew Ingram GigaOm, Jul. 4, 2012 Amid the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s future — which some say is aimed at restricting what developers can do with the real-time information network, in an attempt to monetize it more easily — a number of critics have proposed …

Patrick Meier: Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World

Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World So that’s what he’s been up to! My good friend and mentor Ken Banks of Kiwanja fame has just launched a very interesting initiative entitled “Means of Exchange“. Ken wants to democratize opportunities for radical economic self-sufficiency and thus render local communities more resilient to exogenous shocks. …

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract II

The Open Source Everything Manifesto Chapter 6 Whole-Systems Thinking Extract I In The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainer concludes that if we are to achieve sustainability and resilience, we must nurture at all levels across all boundaries a culture that elevates “problem-solving” as well as the ability to think strategically–an understanding that everything is …