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Michel Bauwens: A Pre-Fab Sustainable Village To Create Smart Growth

A Pre-Fab Sustainable Village To Create Smart Growth EXTRACT: The community, Rimbunan Kaseh, is in the Malaysian state of Pahang and it runs off energy supplies that are largely solar-generated, supplemented by biomass and hydropower. Its agriculture system grows both animals and crops: A four-level aquaculture system nurtures farmed tilapia–a high-protein fish–and then the wastewater …

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Michel Bauwens: 3 Pieces Turning WordPress Into Global Platform

The 3 pieces that are turning WordPress into a platform By Adii Pienaar, WooThemes GigaOm, 23 July 2012 These days, WordPress acts more like a development framework or a PaaS (Platform as a Service), says WooThemes CEO Adii Pienaar. And in the last year, several new services have sprung up to help make WordPress a platform …

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Michel Bauwens: 97% Owned – Documentary, UK Focus, Behind Bank Curtain, Deep Look at the Monetary System

97% Owned – Monetary Reform documentary – Directors Cut 97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. YouTube (2:10:23)  97% Owned – Monetary Reform …

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Michel Bauwens: Peer-to-peer production and the coming of the commons | Red Pepper

Peer-to-peer production and the coming of the commons | Red Pepper Michel Bauwens examines how collaborative, commons-based production is emerging to challenge capitalism. Below, Hilary Wainwright responds Capitalism in its present form is facing limits, especially resource limits, and in spite of the rapid growth of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) …

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Michel Bauwens: Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity

Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do …

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Michel Bauwens: Amplify Brooklyn – Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level

Amplify Brooklyn: Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level EXTRACT: This fall, graduate students in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program at Parsons, in New York City, worked with Penin and her co-director, Eduardo Staszowski, to create Amplify, an exhibit currently on display at Brooklyn’s Arts at Renaissance, which demonstrates existing and potential design solutions …

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Michel Bauwens: The Weave – Participatory Process Design Guide

  The Weave: Participatory Process Design Guide What would the ideal strategic planning engagement look like? The Weave provides guidance for sustainability practitioners wishing to more deeply engage people in creating their sustainable future Via ddrrnt, David Hodgson Read full post, free download.