John Steiner: Working Families Party – 25 Years of Very Hard Work About to See Positive Effect?

Thanks to: Billy Wimsatt I found myself really moved reading this long-form piece on Dan Cantor and the roots and growth of the Working Families Party. Although I love WFP, consider Dan a friend, and have heard him rant often and at length about the WFP’s strategy, I didn’t know half the stuff in this …

Review: Le management de l’intelligence collective – Managing Collective Intelligence – Toward a New Corporate Governance

Olivier Zara 5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational — Free Online in English Translation — For Sale Online in French, May 28, 2013 I just read this book in the free online English translation and have very high praise for the original content, the translation, and the graphics. It is a short book, 88 pages …

Open Power: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 3 MAR 2015]

NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …

Yoda: Integral Science Is the Force — Joining Intelligence with Integrity

Imagine that the year is 1543 and you have just completed reading Copernicus’ newly published book, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, that has attempted to convince you that your daily experience of the sun moving around a stationary earth is an illusion. What do you think the chances are that you would have …

SmartPlanet: IO Theme to Curb Unrest: Buy Nothing New

In Melbourne, meet the New Joneses By Lieu Thi Pham | November 28, 2012 MELBOURNE — Last month, two Australians moved into a pre-fabricated, architecturally designed, sustainably built apartment craned onto Melbourne’s Federation Square, dressed in nothing but their underwear and bathrobes. Meet the New Joneses — a social experiment in new consumption. For five …