The Zeitgeist Movement Global openmoney What's the game? LETSplay is a process of discovery where players can quickly see the key concepts and understand how they apply in today's economy. It's NOT a game about winning or losing, indeed it's not a competition at all - it's a walk-through the elementary ideas of cc and a rudimentary simulation of one version of an imminent reality All you do is buy and sell items from a list provided and see what the money does. As the money comes and goes, the game shows you: - how conventional and community money are different - what comes from that difference - the value of using both forms of money - how to use community money systems without risk. The quick guide - first, for orientation, print a game chart and the rules and procedures go to to register/login. The LETSplay game is the fastest, easiest and most reliable route to understanding community money systems. What's the cost? It's going to take some of your valuable time, but not very much at all.
New Economics Foundation The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British think-tank that promotes social, economic and environmental justice.[1] NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability".[2] The foundation has 50 staff in London and is active at a range of different levels. Its programmes include work on well-being, its own kinds of measurement and evaluation, sustainable local regeneration, its own forms of finance and business models, sustainable public services, and the economics of climate change. Work[edit] NEF works in the areas of community development, democracy, and economics. From 1995 to 2000 NEF made social audits of companies to measure and evaluate a company's social and ethical performance according to its standards. Jubilee 2000 campaign[edit] Local Money Flows[edit] Happy Planet Index[edit] 21-hour working week[edit] History[edit] Funding[edit] See also[edit]
Four Future P2P Scenarios This entry is about the theory of the four future scenarios for a collaborative economy, firstly developed by Michel Bauwens. It is important to mention that Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens are working on a research monograph that explores the relation of capitalism and the Commons. The book Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy is contracted by Palgrave Macmillan. Videos: Books: Kostakis, V. & Bauwens M. Articles: Bauwens, M. & Kostakis, V. This essay attempts to simplify possible outcomes by using two axes or polarities which give rise to four possible scenarios. Netarchical Capitalism (NC) We define as “netarchical capitalism” the first combination (upper-left) which matches centralized control of a distributed infrastructure with an orientation towards the accumulation of capital. Distributed Capitalism (DC) The second combination, (bottom-left) called “distributed capitalism”, matches distributed control but with a remaining focus on capital accumulation.
Timebank by e-flux LINEA: Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori Curated by Kathy Battista April 27 – May 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Sunday, April 27, 6-9 pm Public walk with the artists: Thursday, May 1, 4pm BOSI Contemporary is pleased to announce Linea, an exhibition of new work by Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori curated by Kathy Battista. The two artists were chosen for their investigations into drawing as an expanded field. Katie Holten’s Constellations are a series of new white-on-black drawings that resemble aggregations of stars. Mariateresa Sartori’s double channel video The Drawers shows her students drawing, their eyes looking at the camera, darting to the pages below, and back again. Sartori and Holten find beauty in their investigations of systemic composition and line. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with texts by Kathy Battista, Samuel Bordreuil, and a conversation between Katie Holten and Sarah Sze. Kathy Battista is a writer, curator, and educator.
Welcome to the Frontpage Horacio Drago & Carlos Pérez, El estado actual de las redes de trueque en Argentina, El Catoblepas 19:13, 2003 El Catoblepas • número 19 • septiembre 2003 • página 13 Se describe el estado presente de las redes de trueque en Argentinay se propone el estado deseado que deberían alcanzar en el futuro «La autogestión es una opción profundamente revolucionaria,anticapitalista, porque ella exige la integración de cada unode los individuos en un colectivo libremente escogido (...)Estamos construyendo en medio de contradicciones,en las fallas del capitalismo, un nuevo tipo de sociedady de economía. Es difícil, más no imposible.»Paul Singer. Premio Nóbel de Economía La primera parte de este documento tratará de describir y definir lo más objetivamente posible, una sucesión descriptiva de nuestras fortalezas, debilidades, oportunidades y amenazas, es decir, identificaremos e incluiremos aquí todos los síntomas actuales más notorios que presenta el Sistema de Trueque Multirrecíproco de la Red de Trueque Solidario. Pero trabajando en equipo los podemos construir, porque: Diagnóstico de la situación 1. 1.1. 2.
Banco Palmas Appropedia Occupying the Money System: Enric Duran introduces Fair.Coop | P2P Foundation “What was missing for us to start out on this path was a monetary initiative present in these markets which, instead of relying on human competition to retain the greatest value, would be based on human cooperation as equals, creating value for all. With the arrival of Fair.Coop, faircoin has become the cryptocurrency focused on the social cooperation that was missing. Enric Duran initially approached us during the late spring. It is this brash, hands-on attitude that I admire so much about Enric Duran. Monetary and economic theories centered on the fairer distribution and stewardship of the earth’s wealth abound. Back to Duran and Fair.Coop. Whether the project succeeds or not, the experience and insights gained will prove to be invaluable. An open cooperative as a revolutionary tool for building a new global economy By Enric Duran Today I have not expropriated any banks, nor am I presenting anything which anyone can call illegal. This means: Consider traditional capitalism.
The Venus Project Alternativas para la Agricultura Ecológica - BAH! - Bajo el Asfalto está la Huerta! Indice 1 Prefacio 2 Introducción 3 1. los orígenes 2. La industrialización del campo 4 3. ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aqui? 5 4. ¿Es posible otro tipo de agricultura hoy? Las diferentes opciones 12 a. introducción b. Orígenes La alimentación es un aspecto clave en la vida de cualquier ser vivo. La industrialización del campo Hasta después de la segunda guerra mundial no es cuando realmente empieza un proceso industrializador en la agricultura que transforma e intensifica el dominio sobre el entorno natural, llegando incluso a la profanación del código genético de los seres vivos de la mano de la ingeniería genética. Sabias que... 5 compañias transnacionales controlan: 2/3 del mercado de pesticidas; ¼ del mercado de semillas; y 100% del mercado de semillas transgénicas. ¿Cómo hemos llegado hasta aqui? Ejemplo práctico El sector lácteo: la normativa exige el ordeño a máquina, y la pasteurización inmediata de la leche. Las Semillas: Sabias que.... El futuro...
LETSystems - the Home Page DACs — Invictus Innovations Incorporated Distributed Autonomous Corporations (DACs), or Decentralized Autonomous Companies, are a generalization of the concept of a crypto-currency where the currency is backed by the services its miners perform rather than a real-world commodity like gold, oil, or, ahem, thin air. If we can barter for goods and services, why can’t we back currencies with goods or services? DACs may be simultaneously viewed as crypto-currencies and crypto-equities (unmanned businesses). As businesses, they perform services intended to be valuable to their customers. Such services might include money transmission (Bitcoin), asset trading (BitShares), domain name services (DomainShares), or a thousand other business models sure to emerge as people realize that DACs are not mere “altcoins”. DACs pay for the services they need (like computer resources and bandwidth) with shares of their own company “stock”. To the outside world a DAC is nothing but a crypto-currency backed by the value of the services it provides.