Energy: Thriving On Five Percent?
The modern city has been shaped by the availability of cheap oil and resources, and plentiful credit.
Society
P2P Perspectives: Alternative development
Africa, Latin America and Asia, they are supposed to be societies on a particular trajectory of history … they are all supposed to be trying to be in the future what Europe and North America are today. So, in that sense, technically there are no options open to them in the future.
Review: Collapsing Consciously by Carolyn Baker
Carolyn Baker writes with passion, insight and courage about a topic that most people turn away from – the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspect of what she and many others call “collapse.”
Introducing Streetbank: a new tool for rethinking resources
Streetbank, as its founders put it, "puts you in touch with your community, bringing neighbourboods closer and making the world a bit nicer".
Fascism and the Future, Part Three: Weimar America
It’s a curious detail that in the last years of the Weimar Republic, a large number of avant-garde intellectuals and cultural figures were convinced that they already lived in a fascist country.
Apocalypses Everywhere
Let’s lift the lid off the A-word, take a peek inside, and examine how it affects our everyday lives.
P2P perspectives: Reform Liberalism
This is the first in a series in which Jose Ramos and Michael Bauwens debate nine different political perspectives and how they relate to peer to peer.
Swapping Fashion Week for Style
While the runways of the world’s top fashion cities shine with glamour of the latest trends, Peers members are coming together in their homes for clothing swaps that demonstrate a different trend in action – the sharing economy.
Shared Spaces and Slow Zones: Comparing Public Space in Paris and New York
Everyday, high-density global cities are home to millions of pedestrians in their streets. Paradoxically though, many streets and transportation policies continue to place more space and importance on cars rather than people.
Gold and the beast: a brief history of the Roman conquest of Dacia
The beast of prey that, today, we call "Globalization" is facing the same problem that the old Roman Empire was facing in its times…
The austerity of the commons: a struggle for the essential
In a precarious context induced by a struggle for the essential, one term has re-emerged as indispensable, providing many of us with a new sense of direction, creation and sharing, and ultimately, like a boomerang, assuming the ‘austere’ dignity of that which cannot be renounced: the commons.
Shock over Ukraine
Ukraine is shaping up to be a lot like Yugoslavia, except with more than twice as many people, lots of crazed street fighters who think they now own the place, and a role critical to European energy security. If you aren’t in shock about this, then you haven’t been paying attention.
