How Lending Circles & Mutual Aid Groups Create Community Resilience
Recently, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) gathered community members for a conversation on “Mutual Aid, Lending Circles, Giving Circles, and Gift Circles.”
Jassmin Poyaoan
Gifting Circles and the Monetization of Everything
One aspect of the monetization of life that is proceeding nearly to totality in our time is that someone finds a way to commoditize nearly any movement or concept…
Share Exchange: Incubating the Local Economy
The Share Exchange in Santa Rosa, CA is a unique nexus of projects under one roof, created to jumpstart the new economy in the North Bay region.
First-Person-Science: Towards a Culture of Poetic Objectivity
For the last 400 years or so science has relied on an “objectivity” provided by rational thinking and measurements.
The Promise of the Commons
Bollier attributes the lack of awareness of the commons in the U.S. in part to our commercial media and political culture.
Long Live The Pollinators!
While I am not typically a doomer, and try to stay rooted in reality, the honey bees are in a bad place right now.
Creating Cities: Interview with Marcus Westbury of Renew Australia
Renew Australia is a social enterprise designed to catalyse community revitalisation across Australia. In this interview founder Marcus Westbury shares Renew’s vision for creative space activation.
From Enlivenment to Shared Livelihoods: The Emergence of a Commons-Based Economy
The enlivenment approach is not just an abstract philosophical re-imagining of the world. It is an emerging reality in countless corners of the earth.
How Fruit Trees Are Growing Communities
A global grass roots movement has identified a very effective ingredient for building community: Fruit.
The End of a Year of Open Source
One year ago, without any discernable tech skills or any practical experience within the fields of open hardware, free software or free culture, I embarked on a project to try to live as ‘open source’ as possible for a whole year.
Natural Anti-Capitalism: Biospheric Householding as the Foundation of an Enlivened Economy
Enlivenment means to get back to living reality as the inspiration and insight for all areas of science.
What’s Next for the Sharing Movement?
With the launch of a promising new sharing movement organization called Peers today, it’s a good time to reflect on the character of the sharing movement.
