The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Transition Proposals Towards a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging …
Video Interview in Eleven Parts 01 – genesis of the P2P Foundation 02 – what are the commons? 03 – Old Vs New 04 – constitutionalism from below 05 – civil renewal 06 – why can’t we work together? 07 – democratization of culture & education 08 – Us and them vs mutualization 09 – …
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Think Global, Print Local: A Campaign for a New Commons-Based Publishing Network Have you ever wanted to share an inspiring book that you thought could help people and communities elsewhere, but in another language? Have you thought about combining decentralized online and offline ways of sharing information? Have you imagined more complex, layered projects crossing …
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Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open …
The Commons Strategies Group The Commons Strategies Group (CSG) is a partnership to help advance the commons in diverse settings — both in theory and practice. Working on four continents, we catalyze and assist commons-based projects, activism, research and public education with a great variety of partners.
The Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics This is an important synthesis of ten years of research at the P2P Foundation, on the emerging practices of the new productive communities and the ethical entrepreneurial coalitions that create livelihoods for shared resources. I’m working with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable on a more accessible version …
New Report Explores Community Land Trusts and the Commons In a new report, Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty, authors of the book The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, explore the connection between community land trusts and the Commons. Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons is broken into three articles …
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