Are Positive Stories Enough?
In a world filled with melting ice caps, war, species extinctions, and economic peril, how can I possibly argue that the small-scale actions I write about can transform the bigger picture for the better?
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What Is Worker Cooperative Development?
How, then, do we go about democratizing businesses and transforming jobs? What is worker cooperative development?
The Top Ten P2P Trends of 2015
There is now a palette of p2p-based solutions that can be used by those that are serious about reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources and commons, and livelihoods around such engagements.
Can Retail Space be an Extension of the Public Realm? A Look at Seattle’s Third Place Books
For sociologist Ray Oldenburg, each of us needs three places: the home, the workplace or school, and beyond that, a third place – a public space on neutral ground where people can gather and interact while experiencing a sense of ease and belonging.
Fork the Economy
I’ve given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It’s simply unjust. There’s a difference.
“Build the City”: The Critical Role of Art, Culture & Commoning
A new anthology of essays, Build the City: Perspectives on Commons and Culture, powerfully confirms that the “city as a commons” meme is surging.
#SolidarityCities: Upstate New York
We visited Ithaca to attend an event which we also helped organize, the Mobilizing the Cooperative Economy in NY State Summit. This meeting built on momentum from summits held in Syracuse in 2012 and 2013.
David Bollier on Patterns of Commoning
You have to start talking about the commons as this organic whole, and not as this machine you can break down into parts or dissect. It’s a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness.
Alternatives to Capitalism: Derek Wall’s Economics After Capitalism (2015)
As long as capitalism has existed, in whichever form, there have been a great many voices of dissent, movements and thinkers crying out and struggling against what they have seen as an unjust, exploitative and destructive system.
COP21: What Paris Can Learn From a Mississippi Co-op
Business-as-usual capitalism may be bracing for a stiff challenge from a group in one of America’s poorest cities.
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and its Main Thinkers
We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras
#SolidarityCities: Montréal
Our visit to Montreal was built around a desire to understand the city’s uniquely federated Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) sector.
