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As alternative energy advocate Steve Baer once noted, the commons is often ignored in economic analysis. He used a humble analogy to name this "the clothesline paradox": When you put your clothes in the dryer, the energy you use is measured and counted, but when you hang them on the line, the energy "disappears" from the measured economy.
Mass collaboration is the future of competitive advantage in business.
The Dawning Age of Mass Collaboration
Webinars - National Community Land Trust Network
The Network provides national webinars on emerging research,innovations in practice, policy developments or solutions for community land trust and shared equity pracititoners, researchers, and policy makers. View Past Webinars
The first day of the Land and Poverty Conference, as I approached the World Bank from H Street, I noticed several homeless people still sleeping on the benches outside.
Have the experts finally figured out how to end poverty? | Work and Wealth
Category:Commons Economics
This special section is dedicated to documenting a upcoming conference to be held in Berlin on May 22-24, 2014, on Commons-Oriented Economics [1] .
Category:Peerfunding
This wiki section is dedicated to the topic of "How do we make Peer Production sustainable?
Thriving too: Trading Spaces – Radical New Collaborations for Local Economies
We’ve been working on the Trading Spaces concept for about a year. It's exciting to be sharing a year's worth of thinking about innovative ways of increasing collaborative activity on high streets that doesn't rely on local residents to be simply consumers --> but partners, makers and social investors as well. It's an integration strategy that challenges the idea that commercial local retail businesses and social projects should continue to seek sustainability separately, but instead aims to find points of mutual benefit, engineering a creative form of ‘radical collaboration’.
How to start a Repair Cafe
If you've ever found yourself on the phone with a customer service representative telling you it would cost more to fix your electric tea kettle than to just buy a new one, you are well acquainted with the concept of " planned obsolescence ."
A Bushelful of Art — Mixed Media
A new brand of CSA is offering a different sort of sustenance: fresh, local art by Staff, Utne Reader January-February 2012It's one of the first things we learn as kids: How to share. But this practice usually fades as we become adults.