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This paper analyses the main fault lines of the industrial food system and the consequences of the absolute commodification of food.
An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
Open supply chains are a recurring theme here on the P2P Foundation blog, whether it’s a ‘FairMouse‘, the (very popular) Fairphone, or Sourcemap, (website here) there have been various efforts to make supply chains transparent, whether from the vendors themselves or from third parties. I am working with the (P2PF-endorsed) FairCoop project on a new …
A step through the city of the Commons of 2040, an environment that can provide the conditions and infrastructures for commoning in urban areas.
'Patterns of Commoning' describes dozens of lively, innovative commons that are pioneering exciting new forms of production, governance and ways of living.
Rob Hopkins introduces the Transition Network's new book compilation: '21 Stories of Transition'
is it possible that Klein’s analysis is right on the politics and the solutions, but incomplete in terms of an overarching strategy for how to get there?
“Credibles crowd-funds small, sustainable food-related businesses. The re-payment of the funding is in-kind – edible credits, or Credibles. The Clearbon platform manages and balances the shared credits among multiple businesses, giving the funder more liquidity for redemption.”
In this article, I will present egalitarian communities, mainly Acorn community in Virginia, to examine whether the postcapitalist mode of production in the physical world can be introduced by establishing intentional communities. It should be noted that the opinions presented here are not necessary those of the founders or members of the community where I have done research. I interpret my findings with regard to their significance for this economic change and their reflection on the postcapitalist mode of production. Acorn community does not define itself as a peer production project so the following analysis is not an evaluation of the implementation of peer production theory into practice. It is instead an extrapolation from the practice to how peer production organizations in the physical world could operate in the current system and in the future.
Gen-X and Y lap up organic, fairtrade products, while baby boomers struggle to pay extra for more ethical goods.
Bronwen Morgan, a researcher and expert in regulation and rights related to social activism and claims for social and economic human rights, recently approached us to share the following article. It deals with sustainable food systems, the sharing economy, and the ethos of legal infrastructure by using the recent crowdfunding campaigns of Open Food Network (Australia) and FarmDrop (UK) as a window onto these issues.
The Open Food Network is a free, open source project aimed at supporting diverse food enterprises and easy access to local and sustainable food.They’re not only addressing one of the critical issues of our time (and future), they’re also “…proudly open source and not for profit”, working under P2P protocols. Please support their current crowdfunding campaign. Watch the video, read the campaign description below, and spread the word about this most inspiring initiative. We hope to see many Open Food Networks around the world; we believe that this campaign is a critical step towards the attainment of that goal.
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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 →
Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
Open supply chains are a recurring theme here on the P2P Foundation blog, whether it’s a ‘FairMouse‘, the (very popular) Fairphone, or Sourcemap, (website here) there have been various efforts to make supply chains transparent, whether from the vendors themselves or from third parties. I am working with the (P2PF-endorsed) FairCoop project on a new …
John Higson’s priority is how to involve a maximum number of people involved in decision-making processes in the creation of sustainable local economies. John Higson is a “social entrepreneur, and former branding consultant that got tired of creating added value for products that lack true value. John is convinced that our most wasted natural resource(s) …
Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
The Sustainable Development Goals do not constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet.
Continuing our series on P2P women, we present Andrianna Natsoulas’ interview with Michel Bauwens. Q: You are mostly known for your work around food sovereignty, can you tell us a bit of personal history and how you decided to get engaged on that issue; then, how do think your work is related to the concept of …
Amazingly, it is sometimes a criminal act to retrieve food that has been thrown away. Often it is simply seen as culturally inappropriate or embarrassing. But when an estimated $165 billion worth of food gets thrown away in the U.S. every year, surely it’s time to change our attitudes about food waste.
“Permaculture initiatives are indeed popping up throughout the city — including the Chiwara development in Highland Park that Dennis Archambault covered in Model D a few weeks ago. My search for other noteworthy projects led me to Blair Evans, whose organization Incite Focus, a “platform for community production,” demonstrates the revolutionary potential of applying permaculture principles in the context of Detroit’s DIY maker culture.”
“As Polanyi highlights in the Great Transformation, land enclosure evolved over centuries and in England was accelerated by thousands of Parliamentary acts of land enclosure in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. He highlights that resistance to a self-regulating market economy required the liquidation of the beneficial constraints exercised by usury laws, the rights of commoners, the guilds and other kinship and civil society institutions. In England the struggle to preserve these constraints by the working class was fierce between the 1770s and 1850. The resistance to land enclosure in Newcastle Upon Tyne led to the practical proposal of Thomas Spence for Parish Land Trusts. Proposed in 1775 these were to be set up to hold rural and urban land in trust on behalf of local people and to capture economic rent for the benefit of the citizens. The Spence Plan influenced wider thinking. Robert Owen’s plan for Villages of Unity and Co-operation from 1817 sparked the development of the co-operative movement. David Ricardo invested in Owen’s New Lanark scheme and argued for taxation of unearned economic rents in his Principles of Political Economy and Taxation in 1817.
Help our friends at Growstuff in their righteous campaign to build a global, open-source database to help foodgrowers around the world. Please read the campaign text posted below and head on over to their crowdfunding page to help in any way you can.
North Coast is the largest consumer food co-op in California with a membership of 15,000 and over $30 million in annual sales. I was a director for 12 years, including (recently) 2 years as Vice President of the board. I was also President, for about 10 years, of the co-op's Community Fund, which is a $600,000 fund that disburses approximately $15,000 annually in community grants.
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