Jean Lievens: Sharing is Good for Community, Economy, Nature

Sharing is Good: Building a Sharing Economy & Community Beth Buczynski By sharing what we already have (time, energy, money, goods, foods, skills) we can create communities of abundance. By changing our idea of what it means to be sustainable people, families, and businesses, and working together to achieve it instead of alone in our …

4th Media: We Don’t Make This Stuff Up! — Occupy as a Form of Rising Anarchism

The New Politics of the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Rising Anarchism A number of occurrences have taken place of the past 13 years since the rise of the new millennium; we have seen and are seeing the rise of popular movements all over the world and a resistance to the forces of imperialism, capitalism, …

Jean Lievens: Jeremy Rifkin on Occupy–the upcoming third industrial revolution

There is something unfair in the way this world is organised. Why is our environment deteriorating? Why is unemployment rising? We want a new vision for the future. The upcoming third industrial revolution needs a new economic paradigm. S0up3rD0up3r 1 year ago The economy is crashing because money is no longer relevant. We can produce …

Tom Atlee: Occupy Adopts Open Everything Meme

Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …