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How economics abandoned time (to create a myopic culture)

August 31, 2023 by Frederic Jennings

We have squandered 80 years on a wrong conception of how our economy works. There is much to fix…

Categories Economy, Economy featured Tags competition, cooperation, economics, neoclassical economics, time Leave a comment

We need less competition

June 2, 2023 by Gunnar Rundgren

In reality, the antonym to competition is not at all monopoly but is rather cooperation and solidarity.

Categories Economy, Food & Water, Food & Water featured Tags Building resilient food and farming systems, competition, cooperation Leave a comment

Atoms, Bits and Wits: The Economic Case for Cooperation

March 15, 2023February 15, 2023 by Frederic Jennings

Atoms, bits and wits show why a horizonal view will open an economic case for cooperation and learning in media, education, politics and ecology.

Categories Economy, Economy featured, Environment, Featured, Society Tags building resilient societies, cooperation, economic theory Leave a comment

Finding the Mother Tree: Review

September 20, 2021 by Eliza Daley

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.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment, Society Tags connection to nature, cooperation, forest conservation, forest management, mycology Leave a comment

Six Choice Metaphors to Unfold Economics

July 13, 2021July 12, 2021 by Frederic Jennings

Human ecology opens us beyond a reductive view. We are part of understanding; our regard is from ‘inside,’ not as ‘outside’ observers.

Categories Economy, Economy featured, Society Tags building resilient societies, cooperation, economics, human ecology, systems thinking Leave a comment

Self Domestication and Overshoot, or… the Story of Foxes and Russian Melodrama (Episode 35 of Crazy Town)

March 22, 2023April 1, 2021 by Asher Miller

Self domestication, the process by which humans became a more cooperative and less aggressive species, paradoxically contributes to humanity’s overshoot predicament.

Categories Crazy Town, Environment, Podcasts, Society Tags building resilient societies, cooperation, Crazy Town, evolutionary biology, human evolution, Overshoot Leave a comment

The bear, the tiger, and the trade unionist

March 15, 2021 by Julia Steinberger

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.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Economy featured, Environment, Society Tags building resilient societies, cooperation, cultural stories Leave a comment

The Joust and The Potlatch as Social Alternatives

March 11, 2021 by Frederic Jennings

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.

Categories Economy, Economy featured, Society Tags building resilient economies, competition, cooperation Leave a comment

A horizonal look at social entropy

December 16, 2020 by Frederic Jennings

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.

Categories Economy, Energy, Environment, Society Tags building resilient social change, cooperation, entropy Leave a comment

Scarcity or Abundance: The Horizonal Nature of Social Relations

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 by Frederic Jennings

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.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society, Society featured Tags abundance, building resilient societies, competition, cooperation, scarcity Leave a comment

Who are We? Where are we Going? Some Reflections in this COVID-19 Time

June 15, 2020 by Guy Dauncey

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.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Act: Inspiration featured, Environment, Society Tags building resilient societies, cooperation, human evolution Leave a comment

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: A Sociocratic Perspective

March 30, 2018 by SoFA Coop Circle, Staff

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.

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