Finding the Mother Tree: Review
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We must live within nature. We will all be winners when there are no losers. We will all thrive when we recognize that competition will lose to cooperation in every challenge.
Tag: cooperation
Six Choice Metaphors to Unfold Economics
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Human ecology opens us beyond a reductive view. We are part of understanding; our regard is from ‘inside,’ not as ‘outside’ observers.
Self Domestication and Overshoot, or… the Story of Foxes and Russian Melodrama (Episode 35 of Crazy Town)
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Self domestication, the process by which humans became a more cooperative and less aggressive species, paradoxically contributes to humanity’s overshoot predicament.
The bear, the tiger, and the trade unionist
By Julia Steinberger, Medium
Rather than believe in the fake embrace of predatory capitalism, where vast crimes are supposed to benefit humanity, we should believe in each other and ourselves, our capacity to work for each other, and ultimately win against this predation.
The Joust and The Potlatch as Social Alternatives
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
The Joust, founded on substitution and economic conflict of interest, stresses material gain. The Potlatch thrives on nonphysical values, seeking complementarities in learning and social designs.
A horizonal look at social entropy
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Competition is failing us: a horizonal index of entropy indicates how. We must transform social relations toward cooperation. The symptoms of organizational stress alone would justify this, as an ethical route to ecological health and peaceful lives.
Scarcity or Abundance: The Horizonal Nature of Social Relations
By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org
Let us start by encouraging cooperation in ourselves and each other, and nurturing greater trust. When truth – too fragile, left untold – triumphs, so we move forward.
Who are We? Where are we Going? Some Reflections in this COVID-19 Time
By Guy Dauncey, The Practical Utopian
Who are we? And where are we going on this tiny planet of ours, this bright sparkle of life in a Universe so ridiculously vast? It’s a question worth exploring, if you have five minutes in your busy COVID day.
Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: A Sociocratic Perspective
By SoFA Coop Circle, Staff, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Sociocracy and cooperativism stem from the premise that humans thrive as social animals. Quite possibly, cooperation acts as our most characteristic trait as living beings. We need each other. No human effort, made by a lone individual, succeeds.
Shifting from Generative Adversarial Networks to Generative Cooperative Networks
By John Ringland, P2P Foundation
It is no accident that as a civilisation the sophistication of our adversarial capacities far exceeds the sophistication of our cooperative capacities. Our historical path and current situation have made it this way, but the balance is changing. There are two main generative processes underlying biological and cultural evolution and more broadly the evolution of any population of interacting adaptive agents.
Circular Economy In Practice #7: Cooperate or Die
By Camille Duran, Eleen Murphy, Green Exchange
The ability to cooperate brought us to where we are today, and it’s what will help us change the world. Without cooperation, the Circular Economy will not be possible. So how will this work, practically? And what are the key principles of cooperation that we can start applying everywhere we go?
Conviviality
By Marianne Gronemeyer, Patterns of Commoning
“Conviviality” is still a foreign word, one that triggers the question, “Well, what does it mean?”