Michel Bauwens: Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions

Californians Outraged As Oil Producers & Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions California’s oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day; so it is hardly surprising that, as Reuters reports, Californians are outraged after discovering …

Michel Bauwens: Integral Research Methodology

* Essay: Integral Review and its Editors. By Sara Ross, Reinhard Fuhr, Michel Bauwens, et al. INTEGRAL REVIEW 1, 2005.  Excerpt: Beyond Perspectives, Reductionisms and Layers. By Michael Bauwens, pp. 14-17. The Integral approach can be seen as a reaction against the limitations and unforeseen effects of the previous methods. Unlike analytical science, it focuses …

Michel Bauwens: P2P Commons Next Steps

Proposed Next Steps for the emerging P2P and Commons networks I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three institutional coalitions: * The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons * The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle » * The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons Read full post.