An Overlooked Element of the Good Life in Italy (and Everywhere)
Cooperatives, such as this park cafe in Forli, can achieve social as well as economic goals
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Helsinki Timebank: Currency as a Commons
In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical alternatives.
The Potato Park of Peru
Drive an hour northeast from Cusco, Peru, and you will encounter some beautiful high mountain lakes, historic Inca ruins, and the richest diversity of potatoes on the planet.
The Open Source School Redefines Education in Italy
Threading elements of the great educational experiments of Bauhaus and Roycroft Community models together with Pierre Levy’s modern definition of “collective intelligence,” La Scuola Open Source (The Open Source School) embodies the principles of the sharing movement.
Farm Hack: A Commons for Agricultural Innovation
In 2011, a community of farmers, designers, developers, engineers, architects, roboticists and open source thinkers came together in Boston, Massachusetts, to explore a simple yet radical idea – that great improvements in agriculture could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange.
State Power and Commoning: Transcending a Problematic Relationship
What changes in state power must occur for commoning to flourish as a legal form of self-provisioning and governance?
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
The conference on Platform cooperativism organised by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider in 2015 helped to broaden the debate around the sharing economy, which is summed up in Platform Cooperativism. Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy.
Uncommoning Nature
Occupying the same space (that ‘cannot be mapped in terms of a single set of three-dimensional coordinates’), this complex heterogeneous form (universal nature, the environment, and what I am calling ecologized nature—or nature recalcitrant to universality) allows for alliances and provokes antagonisms.
The Commons as the Response to the Structural Crises of the Global System
The emerging answer for a new mode of value creation is the re-emergence of the Commons.
The Great Value-Shift of our Time
Unlike traditional leftist visions of revolution, which require a social movement to seize state power and then install another system, the emerging world of peer production is based on another vision
The Post-Capitalist Strategy of the P2P Foundation
How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy?
Feminist Socialism and the Commons
“Women have been creating a Commons for a long time: the domestic labor and economy is, de facto, an invisible economy”.