Next post-monetary technologies will have an open internet protocol, speak the language of integral wealth, allow massive gift e… Read more

As energy is the underpinning of a society, the unravelling of the fossil fuel system signifies the demise of the old paradigm. … Read more

15M has no use for a utopian model because it already has one, hundreds, thousands, of working prototypes. Micro-utopian prototy… Read more

Do intellectual property rights – with their increasingly global reach –further or hinder the production and dissemination o… Read more

Members of the Oglala Lakota Nation have made their own digital currency – a sort of Bitcoin. They hope that having their … Read more

One Community is open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing everything necessary to create comprehensive sustainab… Read more

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Designing for Collaboration, Participation, and Sustainability. Keynote presentation at Infrastructuring the commons seminar @ A… Read more

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Two hundred commoners from around the globe converged at the Economics and the Commons Conference (ECC) to explore the commons a… Read more

This Community Currency Implementation Framework is a process guide to setting up, operating and improving community currencies,… Read more

Les Robinson’s discuss his book Changeology “and how to enable groups, communities and societies to do things they&#… Read more

Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success. Countries should act now to embrace new metrics, urge Robert… Read more

The WLT Gift Card program provides a unique and convenient gifting solution while also supporting local communities. Read more

How Vendor Relationship Management and the Federated Social Web align with each other, and why they can be implemented in a sing… Read more

“The global economy treats nature and material resources as if they were infinite, and knowledge as if it was scarce. We have … Read more

Appropedia is a wiki for collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technology and poverty reduction. Read more

Patterns exist within and influence many aspects of design and technology. Read more

This article by Graham Barnes explores the relationship between the values that are implicitly embedded in a currency and the ty… Read more

Elinor Ostrom shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for her lifetime of scholarly work investigating how communities succe… Read more

Sardex.net is a interest free credit network set up by four lads from Sardinia. Read more

If we inventoried and internalized all the externalities within the value and profit equation, economics would spontaneously inc… Read more

it is then important to realize this debt based money system shapes our relations, basing them on notions of scarcity and compet… Read more

Its time for the independent workers to steer this new marketplace in a more sustainable direction that helps the people who mak… Read more

To come to a different economy in which values of social and ecological sustainability are determining, means we need new forms … Read more

Imagine a forest full of food, free for everyone to harvest. Read more

How is the present monetary system affecting the economy and thereby society and nature, and why is it failing? This article out… Read more

How and why the world is moving from a closed, centralized & top down power toward a more distributed and collaborative way,… Read more

Ecuador is looking into new modes of production, consumption and organization of life and coexistence. Read more

This paper describes means of exchanging without euros identified in Greece. They fall in four main categories: parallel currenc… Read more