Liquid Democracy is a fast, decentralized, collaborative question-answering system, which works by enabling chained answer recommendation. It occupies the middle ground somewhere between direct and representative democracy, and is designed to ensure that the things we all hold in common stay properly maintained (by small, stealthy, distributed teams of anarchist kung-fu badasses, if need be), even in the face of radical technological change. I love liquid democracy! Have done so ever since … [Read more...]
COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy
This is one of the best documentaries about Community Supported Agriculture, Community Land Trusts and Community Currencies. COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy, is a new 37 minute film that tells the story of a series of revolutionary innovations by the community of Great Barrington, MA to address, at the local level, some of the economic challenges of our nation’s current hard times. In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – … [Read more...]
Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change
I published this on the P2P Foundation blog last week, but posting here too for good measure :) Crowdfunding is a new word for an old idea. The Oxford English dictionary defines it as: "the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet" Crowdfunding's poster child, Kickstarter, launched in April 2009. It wasn't the first online crowdfunding platform (ArtistShare launched in 2003), but it was the first … [Read more...]
Edible City – Grow the Revolution
Just came across this great film: Edible City: Grow the Revolution is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Big respect to them for launching the film online for free from the outset. I wish more people would did this. … [Read more...]
The Genius of #KONY2012 and why all NGOs should take note
Let me start with a disclaimer: I have not watched the KONY2012 video. Just listening to it made me feel a bit uneasy (my fiancée watched on her laptop whilst we both worked at home sitting opposite each other at our dining table). I have, however, been familiar with the work of Invisible Children since March 2006 (doesn't the Internet age fast? all links on that post but theirs' have since expired). Not long after that, I organised a screening of their first self-entitled film and to be … [Read more...]
Rob Newman’s History of Oil
Being both funny and informative this is pretty much a must see. Quite suprised I've not posted it before (assumed I had but went to find the post and couldn't, so posting it now). … [Read more...]
Inside Job
The last version of this film we posted has since been removed so here it is again (this time with Greek subtitles). It is an important film well worth watching. You can also watch (and download) it on vimeo, or download it via bittorrent. … [Read more...]
Springhill Cohousing
Last Saturday Gloria and I joined members of the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership to visit the lovely Springhill Cohousing community in Stroud. The video above is a quick tour of the site (unfortunately my battery ran out before I got to show you around inside the common house, and I hadn't put the camera in high resolution mode). Below are the photos I took during our tour, where together with lots of outdoor picture you can take a sneak peak inside some of the houses (some of which … [Read more...]
RIP Richard Douthwaite
Saddened to hear the news that Richard Douthwaite just passed away after a period of illness. Richard was a tremendous pioneer and thought leader who championed economies that functioned in balance with and of the ecology. Please, if you do nothing else, read at least these two of his books (both utterly important and timely despite being written years ago) Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economics for Security in an Unstable World (1996) Read it … [Read more...]
The Money Fix
The Money Fix, another must see documentary about money and the banking system. "Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. THE MONEY FIX is a feature-length documentary exploring our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar. THE MONEY FIX examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds, and through this lens we learn how … [Read more...]
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