On Abundance
What model could make us more resilient, more comfortable, and more likely to survive a global ecological meltdown? The answer is low-tech library socialism.
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In the Poconos, They’re Keeping Carbon County Great
In Carbon County, Pennsylvania, the conservation ethic runs deep. It manifests in the county’s comprehensive plan, its “return on environment” analysis, and most recently, a fund to preserve open space, which voters overwhelmingly supported.
Acquainting Ourselves with Collapse
When things fall apart, we’re going to have to do it together. There’s a lot to learn about togetherness, slow living, and patience. What resources do we have available to us that are beyond financial? This is for us to find out and this is why I have this practice of micro-dreaming.
The trouble with copper tariffs
Tariffs on copper imported into the United States will not result in self-sufficiency for the country anytime soon, if ever.
“We invent nothing, or only very little.” A portrait of Les Soulèvements de la Terre and some reflections
Although the movement’s actions are based on local struggles, it is part of a broader post-capitalist and post-development struggle. The movement aims to abolish the patriarchal, colonial, racist, and extractivist growth regime while building a new world here and now.
Cecosesola and the Art of Commoning within Capitalist Markets
One of the most singular and accomplished commons I’ve ever encountered is Cecosesola, a federation of Venezuelan cooperatives. The remarkable federation artfully manages multiple ventures as commons while deeply immersed within a system of capitalist markets.
What many environmentalists get wrong about the money system, and why it’s important
Perhaps the best you and I can do towards a better system is to stop believing in the current one, to withdraw from it (to a greater or lesser extent), and create new, gangster-free informal economic contexts.
Think Like a Commoner
The commons is essentially a parallel economy and social order that quietly affirms that another world is possible. And more: we can build it ourselves, now.
Bismuth: Another critical metal gets squeezed
Find out what Pepto Bismol and Chinese trade policy have to do with one another.
Declaration on Autonomy, Radical Democracy and Self Determination
Across the world, grounded practices of radical democracy and autonomy demonstrate alternative models of politics, economy, and society—rooted in solidarity, reciprocity, and mutual aid among humans and the more-than-human world.
“Gigification”: The Future of Work?
What the social contract will look like in the future will to a large degree be determined by what happens to the gig workers who are at the forefront of technological change today.
The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools
In this week’s Frankly, Nate identifies 10 myths being taught in business schools today, and the massive implications these misconceptions hold for society.
