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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs). 
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A series of proposals and more than 120 policy recommendations for governments, ending in a joint statement of public policies for the collaborative economy
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Video panel exploring the Commons in the city and internationally. Featuring Christian Iaione, Eloísa Piñeiro Orge, George Dafermos and Joan Subirats.
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Republished from David Bollier (the original has links): “Scholar of networked behavior David Ronfeldt has proposed an idea whose time may have arrived: let’s create a new federated network of commons enterprises called the “Chamber of Commons.” The term is a wonderful wordplay on the more familiar group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the notoriously... Continue reading →
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Those who make more extensive use of our planet’s [limited natural] resources should compensate those who, involuntarily, use very little.
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“We run a real risk of creating a new kind of regulatory capture?—?
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This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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A new anthology of essays, Build the City: Perspectives on Commons and culture,powerfully confirms that the “city as a commons” meme is surging.
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The paper will offer a more progressive vision to the smart city vision to legitimate city as commons ideas within the domain of civic public policy
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“”What an amazing day on Sunday at Mindful Uprising: a pop-up People’s Summit in Melbourne. Thanks Michel Bauwens for presenting your inspirational vision for a p2p commons-based society; Richard and Laurent from Centre for the Future for co-sponsoring and hosting the event with Melbourne Polytechnic; Daryl for bringing the Summit into being; Jose for co-facilitating the Open Space session with me & our Connectors Michelle, Julian, Aidan & Mike. At the end of the day we were proud to announce the formation of the Commons Transition Coalition and now invite our friends in Adelaide (Sharon), Sydney (Declan), Brisbane (Michelle), Canberra (David), NZ (Sam) and others to work with us to develop a charter and plan for 2016.”
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The city as a commons is a claim on the city by the people that calls for us to rethink how cities are governed and resources allocated and by whom.
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Are there also ‘commons’ choices for climate change ? James Quilligan says yes! * Interest Rates and Climate Change: Realigning our Incentives through the Power of the Commons. By James Bernard Quilligan. Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2010 Excerpted from James Quilligan: “During the past several decades, humanity has emerged as a perilous force of …
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#Global Goals? It's high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty
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The General Political License would allow policy makers to have the support of commons and commoners, subject to clear conditions of reciprocity.
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Sharing is not an opposite of ownership nor a panacea. But we can make use of existing resources rather than create everything we need.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED BOOK P2P ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM P2P COLLABORATION P2P LEGAL DEV. P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARING
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In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance... Continue reading →
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It’s time to examine and broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS SHARINGcommons tr
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Waze has built a real time layer of data and commands over our current traffic infrastructure, but this layer is owned and operated by a for-profit company
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Guy Standing focuses here on the research and experiments which show basic income guarantees are working where they have been tried. The first 3.50 minutes are a dutch-language introduction to the speaker. Watch the video here:
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Can the commons serve as an alternative to the corporate or state domination of big data, the lifeblood of this dawning digital world? Can it serve as the foundation for collective empowerment? Can it provide a means of criticizing the IT corporations’ perception of themselves? From the Berliner Gazette, presenting the project, ‘Big Data in …
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Despite its stated poliical intentions, which we reported about in this blog, every time push came to shove, Syriza did not support commons solutions, shows Theodoros Karyotis in ROAR magazine (which is now a print publication as well), highlighting different case studies: “Let us look into some examples where the SYRIZA government, instead of ratifying …
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Podemos, is not perfect, but is what we collectively have managed to put together since 15M, in 2011.
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* Article: Common Wealth Trusts: Structures of Transition. Peter Barnes. August 2015. Here’s the summary thesis of the article, followed by an extensive excerpted discussion: “Common wealth, properly organized, provides a way to address the two greatest flaws in contemporary capitalism—its relentless destruction of nature and widening of inequality—while still keeping the benefits that markets …
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Why is this distinction important ? Sheila Foster explains: “The idea that like natural resources/commons the city can not just be over-consumed but also unjustly consumed. The commons is a way to call attention to this and to describe not just a practice of commoning (cooperatives, co-managed space and collaborative produced goods, etc) but also …
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Rob Hopkins introduces the Transition Network's new book compilation: '21 Stories of Transition'
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