The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Value from nothing – the sharing economy Patrick Doherty Flip the Media, 9 March 2013 AirBnb, etsy and Relay Rides are the current poster children of the sharing economy. If you don’t know what that is, it’s also called collaborative consumption or peer-to-peer selling. In other words, just fancy names for one person selling or renting …
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Gifting – and the gifting and the gifting economy Dear friends, For years I’ve known people who gave away their professional services as a gift, explicitly encouraging (though not requiring) gifts in return to allow them to continue their work. I’ve also loved the idea of “paying it forward” – enjoying as a gift …
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Emerging Economics #3: The Sharing Economy Dear friends One of the key features of “the new economy” is sharing. More and more people are sharing housing, cars, bikes, tools, meals, skills, money, books, ideas, music, energy, recreation, projects, transportation, knowledge, problem-solving, visions, jobs, ownership, clothes, stories, time… Sharing is a resource in hard times as …
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The Rise of the New Economy Movement By Gar Alperovitz, AlterNet, 23 May 12 s our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In ‘New Economic Visions’, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by Economics Editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz …
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Judith Innes, David Booher Excellent but Not Perfect, June 25, 2011 The authors claim to be addressing a new theory of collaborative rationality. The Native Americans called this “seventh generation thinking.” It is neither new nor rational alone, but rather holistic. I bought and read this book along with Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity …
4 Trends Shaping the Emerging “Superfluid” Economy Venessa Miemis | May 9, 2011 This post originally appeared on CNN.com’s Global Public Square. Humanity and technology continue to co-evolve at an ever increasing pace, leaving traditional institutions (and mindsets) calcified and out of date. A new paradigm is emerging, where everything is increasingly connected and the nature …
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Rachel Botsman (Author), Roo Rogers (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars Ways to Share That Benefit You and Others September 17, 2010 ByKare Anderson “Kare Anderson” (Sausalito, CA) – See all my reviews One Saturday a friend who lives on Nob Hill in S.F. drove a zipcar over to visit me in Sausalito. He was …
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