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Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup. 
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David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."
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Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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Photo By Nicholas Zambetti – http://www.arduino.cc/, CC BY-SA 3.0, This exploratory essay posits the idea of ‘cosmo-localism’ (or ‘cosmo-localization’) as a potentially useful concept in both explaining a new economic model and in formulating sustainable development pathways. It is a thought stimulation exercise that invites us to join a conversation about the design of a new... Continue reading →
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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
jean lievens's insight:
BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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Announcing the launch of a new grassroots initiative to explore and promote the notion of a Credit Commons and inter-operable currencies.
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY
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Ken Webster focuses on a necessarily 'wholistic' or 'integrative' understanding of the circular economy characterized by the Garden Brain.
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It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr
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Whenever investors or entrepreneurs receive equity in a business the total returns on the equity are capped with fair returns but no perpetual claims.
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All proposals for “reform” within the present system are designed to be implemented within existing institutional structures.
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Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts — where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani— we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →
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COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS P2P THEORY
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Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled “11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy“. It’s a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership and control), but some of them aren’t actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not... Continue reading →
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During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
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It's indeed a remarkable synthesis of where the P2P movement is at, and how it is both grappling with the tensions in the world and within the movements.
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
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BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
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COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYommo
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A core theme of this talk on Economic Operating Systems is the question of what drives small businesses to turn into corporations, or get bought by them?
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Those who continue to uphold the existing, highly skewed international economic and financial order delay the realization of human rights by many decades.
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ACTIVISM CAMPAIGNS COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICSact
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PROCOMUNS, a 3 day event held in Barcelona to discuss commons-oriented approaches to public policy, peer production and the collaborative economy.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CONFERENCES COOPERATIVES CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED VIDEO OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OPEN GOVERNMENT ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING VIDEOS
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Cooperatives UK have just released an in depth report full of examples of best practices for co-operatives collaborating to meet the needs of workers
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For more than two decades, Douglas Rushkoff has provided incisive commentary on our increasingly connected, digitized, and corporatized world. From Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace to Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back to his newest, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he’s chronicled both the promise and the peril of of a global society being remade by the Internet and high-tech corporations.dou
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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