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Jean Lievens: The Do It Yourself Maker Movement

“In this chapter, we investigate the maker subculture and its manifestation in fabbing ecosystem. In other words, how the love of making things, hacking, tinkering, circuit bending and doing/making everything so-called DIY is a significant peculiarity of Fab Labs. We first look at the meaning and the emergence of the maker subculture and the development …

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Michel Bauwens: Marcin Jakubowski on The Open Source Economy

  Marcin Jakubowski – The Open Source Economy The Open Source Ecology – 50 Do It Yourself Tools for Civilization focused on 12 people, 2 hours a day living very well. Ethical open production yields a 50 times cost reduction over any given lifetime. Published on Oct 31, 2012 by MarionInstituteTV http://www.connectingforchange.org  Connecting for Change: …

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Yoda: $16 Trillion Or So – Opportunity Costs & Integrity Lost

QE For the People: What Else Could We Buy With $29 Trillion?   (September 24, 2012) Central banks could be helping communities instead of enriching predatory, parasitic “too big to fail” banks and financial feudalism. In a system that depends on lies and the credulity of the citizenry, the greatest lie is that the Federal …

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Tom Atlee: Emerging EcoNomics #1 – DIY “Makers” and Resilient Communities

EMERGING ECONOMICS #1 DIY “MAKERS” AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES by Tom Atlee So we find ourselves in the midst of economic disruptions that may well foreshadow long-term, whole-system economic breakdowns fed by a full spectrum of emerging dynamics – from resource depletion (especially peak oil and loss of fresh water and topsoil) to climate change, with …

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