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I was talking recently to people who have been using our neighborhood rewards debit card in Bernal Heights , and they mentioned: Something we are striving more and more to do is to be considerate and conscious of supporting our neighbors. Sometimes, I could go find something cheaper, but then it wouldn’t support the merchants on the hill who are making Bernal what Bernal is. http://lebleu.org/blog/2012/04/30/multidimensional-value-and-the-future-of-transactions/

Guillaume’s blog » Blog Archive » Multidimensional value and the future of transactions

http://www.synapse9.com/signals/2012/04/12/cancers-or-endowments/

Cancers or Endowments « Reading Nature's Signals

In Continuing the Conversation on Resilience John Fullerton offered a provocative summary and invited more comments on the subject that started with examples found from Bill Reese and Donnella Meadows of resilience as “a Double Edged Sword” , like either social or biological diseases that change to become resistant to treatment. My comment on it got to be 1000 words…, so I just posted the introduction there, and continue it here, where I also can edit it if needed. Hmmm…. I think I both agree and disagree with all three, Geoff, Dave and Ted. I’m sure they’d point out problems with how I fit the various issues together, the way I draw the bigger picture too, of course.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/01/taleb_on_antifr.html

Taleb on Antifragility | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

Nassim Taleb , author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb's next book, a work in progress.

14 Ways an Economist Says I Love You.

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http://community.paper.li/2011/11/30/michel-bauwens-a-peer-to-peer-economy/ This interview is part of an exclusive series Paper.li is doing with the CulturaDigital.Br festival in Rio . Paper.li is CulturaDigital.Br’s media partner and is bringing our community a taste of the keynote speakers’ talks ahead of the event. Peer-to-peer originated in technology… but can it help transform society?

Michel Bauwens: A peer-to-peer economy | The People Behind the Paper.lis

If the next economy is going to facilitate healthy flows of resources and information which support people, society and the planet, we have a lot of changes to make. Because that's certainly not what the current economy does.

Welcome to the Metacurrency Project | The MetaCurrency Project

http://metacurrency.org/
http://owni.eu/2011/08/26/bitcoin-and-ethics/

Bitcoin and ethics » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented

Recently I have been following and participating in some political discussions on IRC and the Bitcoin forums .
http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2011/08/wealth-creation-and-macroeconomics?fsrc=nlw%7Cnewe%7C08-31-11%7Cnew_on_the_economist

Wealth creation and macroeconomics: The parasite problem | The Economist

IT IS a running joke among my friends that none of us does anything useful for society.