Ann Marie Utratel
P2P Foundation
Spain
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A Q&A Session with Douglas Ruskhkoff
Douglas Rushkoff, author and host of Team Human recently held a Q&A session at Quora. Here are his answers: How does today’s digital media environment influence the way people think and behave socially? First off, for those who don’t know exactly what a “media environment” is, it’s the social, mental, and economic environment engendered by... Continue reading → → Read More
Nesta's 'ShareTown' interactive shows what a cooperative, tech-enabled economy might look like
Cross-posted from Shareable Aaron Fernando: It is common to see questionable policies enacted by state and local governments under the guise of economic development — policies which appear to serve the interests of private entities rather than the interests of society at large. Yet at the other end of the spectrum, real and sustainable sources... Continue reading → → Read More
Cadiz, Spain: Roundtable on the Energy Transition
Cadiz, Spain: Roundtable on the Energy Transition | P2P Foundation → Read More
Oakland, California Declares Climate Emergency
Originally published on Commondreams.org Andrea Germanos: Tackling ‘Urgency and Scale” of Crisis, Oakland, Calif. Declares Climate Emergency. City council passed resolution Tuesday endorsing declaration of a climate emergency and calling for just transition. The Oakland Climate Action Coalition claimed victory Tuesday night after the California city passed a resolution declaring a climate… → Read More
Commoning and bootstrapping local to global economy redesign by REconomy practitioners
Nenad Maljković: This is an invitation and action call for you personally — just “observing” and “consuming” content will not do… Announcing Popping Bubbles workshop series and our first online Open Space event, part 2 (part 1, part 3) REconomy practitioners is virtual community of practice (CoP) of and for regenerative entrepreneurs and community organisers. We care about... Continue reading → → Read More
Punk Elegance: How Guerrilla Translation reimagined itself for Open Cooperativism
Read how Guerrilla Translation and its extended family reimagined itself as care-oriented Distributed Cooperative Organization (DCO). → Read More
Book of the day - Peer Work in Australia: A new future for mental health
Peer Work in Australia – A New Future for Mental Health. Ed. by Janet Meagher et al. , 2018 Anthony Stratford, Fay Jackson, Tim Fong and Erandathie Jayakody: This book is a work of intense dedication, with an imperative and belief that we must document the current situation and focus on developments into the future... Continue reading → → Read More
Collaboration Incubators for Practicing Democracy
A series of Collaboration Incubator workshops are being put out into the world to gather like-minded people to combine forces for building global grassroots democracy. → Read More
Decentralising the web: The key takeaways
Republished with permission from UK technology site Computing John Leonard: The Decentralized Web Summit is over – what’s next? Earlier this month a rather unusual tech event took place in San Francisco. The Decentralized Web Summit played host to a gathering of web luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Brewster Kahle and Vint Cerf. On... Continue reading → → Read More
Video of the day: Puppets take on Economic Man
from Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Economic Man vs Humanity: a Puppet Rap Battle An economist, a songwriter and a puppet designer walked into a recording studio. What came out? An economics puppet rap battle, of course. In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, puppet designer Emma Powell, musician Simon Panrucker, and renegade economist Kate Raworth have created a surreal musical puppet adventure… → Read More
Sustainable cities need more than parks, cafes and a riverwalk. They need equity, too
There are many indexes that aim to rank how green cities are. But what does it actually mean for a city to be green or sustainable? → Read More
No Future: From Punk to Zapatismo and Connected Multitudes
Amador Fernández-Savater speaks to Catalan-Mexican writer and activist Guiomar Rovira about collective action, technologies, the online, “off-life” divide and more. → Read More
Thoughts on OPEN 2018
OPEN 2018 last week was an exciting event, not only because of the incredible people the organisers brought together, but because it felt like something new was starting to take off. → Read More
Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
Continuing our coverage of the Lucas Plan as a precursor to Design Global Manufacture Local, this article explores "what the Lucas Plan could teach tech today" → Read More
What Does It Look Like for a Community to Own Its Future?
We believe that knowing how to shape your own reality, be it individually in professional or personal matters, or together as communities, should be a core part of young people’s education. With that knowledge, they will be better equipped to navigate their own futures as well as participate in shaping the future. → Read More
The emergence of makerspaces
What is the community-building, learning and innovation potential of makerspaces towards a more inclusive, commons-oriented smart city? → Read More
How a rural community built South Africa’s first ISP owned and run by a cooperative
The Zenzeleni Networks project is South Africa’s first and only Internet Service Provider (ISP) that’s owned and run by a rural cooperative. → Read More
Reimagine, Don’t Seize, the Means of Production
To preserve and restore a livable planet, it’s not enough to seize the existing means of production; in fact, it may even not be necessary or recommendable. Rather, we need to reinvent the means of production... → Read More
Reimagine, don’t seize, the means of production
A movement combining digital and physical production points toward a new possibility: Produce within our communities and with respect for nature and its carrying capacity. → Read More
Incubator.coop, a crowd-sourced incubator
The crowd funding campaign for the startup of platform cooperative Incubator.coop has now been launched → Read More