By Neal Gorenflo, Shareable
While this new rural economy is coming to life, its success is uncertain. It will likely be an uneven, difficult, and slow transition if there's a transition at all. It will take people of uncommon vision, commitment and patience to make it happen.
By Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso, P2P Foundation Blog
One of the most difficult systems to reimagine is global manufacturing. If we are producing offshore and at scale, ravaging the planet for short-term profits, what are the available alternatives? A movement combining digital and physical production points toward a new possibility: Produce within our communities, democratically and with respect for nature and its carrying capacity.
By Vincent Lassalle, P2P Foundation Blog
The world – and chiefly among it, first world countries – seems to me, to be moving away from a purely industrial model, aimed mainly at production, to a new type of society whose contours and goals have yet to be clearly defined.”
By Michel Bauwens, David Bollier, David Bollier blog
What the world and humanity, and all those beings that are affected by our activities require is a mode of production, and relations of production, that are “free, fair and sustainable” at the same time.
By Michel Bauwens, Commons Transition
At the P2P Foundation, we don’t use the moniker ‘revolution’ with much frequency, preferring the concept of phase transition.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
By Albert Cañigueral, Shareable
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis have just published a new book that offers a rich, sophisticated critique of our current brand of capitalism, and looks to current trends in digital collaboration to propose the outlines of the next, network-based economy and society.
By Josef Davies-Coates, STIR
Imagine transparent, democratic and decentralised organising for everyone.
By Øyvind Holmstad, P2P Foundation Blog
The good thing about losing everything is that it forces you to become flexible and to search for new opportunities.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
For a country suffering from economic devastation and political upheaval, Greece is not accustomed to bursts of optimism.
By Arthur de Grave, OuiShare
Access over ownership. After decades of excessive consumerism, this prospect sounded revolutionary. At first.