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

How is crowd organization produced? How are crowd-enabled networks activated, structured, and maintained in the absence of recog… Read more

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

Case study about the use of a simple self-produced paper-based currency for community resilience. Read more

The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ou… Read more

In this 8 min video Bernard Lietaer talks about why we need to go from a monoculture of money to a monetary ecosystem Read more

Inspired by the idea of building resilience around local, grassroots economies in response to peak oil and climate change, the t… Read more

OuiShare presentation about Collabortive Economy – at European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hearing about “c… Read more