Engaging For the Commons - Global Pull Platform In january 2011, The Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, called for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival. A year later, the Global Sustainability Panel he created to this effect published its recommendations report for Rio+20: Resilient people, resilient Planet, a future worth choosing. The vision of the GSP as expressed in the report revolves around choice, influence, participation and action, and calls for a political process "able to summon both the arguments and the political will necessary to act for a sustainable future."… Whether one agrees or not with the principles of political economics put forward by the UN, "activating" human agency and political will and addressing the root causes for power unbalance and resistance to change is at the heart of tomorrow's paradigm shift. The principles of the platform. The process consists in letting people/organizations: The ecosystem is composed of: The platform creates a context for the following:
Macroéconomie Définition[modifier | modifier le code] La macroéconomie est une branche de la science économique. Elle se consacre à l'étude des grandes variables économiques nationales ou internationales, et aux relations entre ces variables. Elle repose sur une approche globale, quoiqu'elle puisse se fonder sur des comportements microéconomiques[1]. Parce qu'elle fonctionne par la comparaison d'agrégats, la macroéconomie est avant-tout une représentation hiérarchisée de l'économie, articulée entre ses agents, via des flux. La macroéconomie a évolué à travers le temps pour devenir plus précise et plus sûre. Histoire[modifier | modifier le code] De l'Antiquité à Keynes[modifier | modifier le code] Les penseurs de la Grèce antique, tels que Platon, Aristote et Xénophon, avancent des idées économiques. Au XVIIe siècle, des premières réflexions sur la monnaie et l'économie agricole émergent. Karl Marx propose à son tour une représentation schématique de l'économie industrielle de son époque. Robert E.
Rio+20 – Tragedy of the Commons 2.0? Are the discussions on sustainability at Rio about to end once more with no serious commitment to the fundamental transformations needed? These coming three days will be decisive with heads of state coming to a closure at the end of the week. They are summoned to exercise leadership and face their responsibilities. The feedback received from Rio is unpromising, after mobilizing for proposals via The Future We Want and other avenues for feedback and recommendation, most of the organizations representing civil society feel they have hardly been able to get their voice heard and they are now circulating a petition on The Future We Don’t Want… An admission of failure and the sentiment of having been played? As a result, the People Summit held dialogues outside of the UN participation structure and published 'Another Future is Possible' in direct opposition to the orientations the UN negociators have been taking in the past few months.
Basic Income Won't Fix Everything, We Need More Innovative Social Ideas A Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not fix everything—it’s not supposed to—it’s a start for some people and a boon for everyone. But don’t let the prospect of a little free money stop us from pursuing more progressive regulations and reforms. UBI is meant to provide a floor—a standard—which no one can fall beneath. But giving people unconditional free money shouldn’t be the end of the conversation, says Ben Spies-Butcher, a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Masters of Policy and Applied Social Research in the Sociology Department at Macquarie University. In his essay “Not Just a Basic Income” for the Green Institute, Spies-Butcher writes: “A basic income can potentially help break down the stigma and conditionality of many government payments, and improve work incentives and equity. UBI is about how we make society and our economy better, and it’s never just about giving people unconditional free money.
Debategraph <-- Outline view Paul Hawken describes the challenge of sustainability and activist movements that he sees converging into an unnamed and shapeless 'movement' in his book Blessed Unrest: " ... as yet there has been no coming together of organizations in a united front that can counter the massive scale and power of the global corporations and lobbyists that protect the status quo. ...The as yet undelivered promise of this movement is a network of organizations that offer solutions to disantangle what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture, and many more. The world seems to be looking for the big solution, which is itself part of the problem, since the most effective solutions are both local and systemic. Although the groups in the movement are autonomous, the coming together of different organizations to address an array of issues can effectively become a systemic approach.
Crypto Canon - Andreessen Horowitz Here’s a list — building on and including Chris’ last roundup — of crypto readings and resources. It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus; cryptoeconomics and investing; fundraising and token distribution; decentralized exchanges; stablecoins; and cryptoeconomic primitives (crytocollectibles, curation markets, games). We also included a section with developer tutorials, practical guides, and maker stories — as well as other resources, such as newsletters and courses, at the end. We’ll soon be updating this regularly at crypto.a16z.com, for now we’ll keep it updated here. Building Blocks and Basics WTF is the blockchain? Ever wonder how bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work? How the bitcoin protocol actually worksby Michael N How does Ethereum work, anyway?
Shortage of Resources for Renewable Energy. UK Government Report Calls for “Strategic Metals” Plan. Not only are supplies of oil and natural gas under imminent threat of failing to meet demand for them, but so is a whole range of precious metals, along with indium, gallium and germanium and other vital elements such as phosphorus and helium, as is discussed throughout this Commentary. A report1 from the Science and Technology Committee, advised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, warns that if the U.K. does not secure supplies of strategic metals, its economic growth will be severely jeopardized. Of particular concern are indium, used in touch screens and liquid crystal displays, and rare earth elements (REEs) particularly neodymium and dysprosium, used to fabricate highly efficient magnets for electric cars and wind turbines. Endangered Elements: Threat to Green Energy. Peak Oil - Peak Minerals. The above analyses rest upon the case that the determined "peaks" represent actual global production maxima. Table 1. Table 2.
You are wealthy Common goods 07/04/2014 - Discover what we can learn from different ways of bringing people together to make sense of issues and develop solutions that they can take forward. 06/04/2014 - We're developing a Transeuropa Village with Tate Britain, Millbank Estate TMO and Chelsea College of Art & Design for Europe Day. We're looking for how you'd like to use the space! ... 04/04/2014 - European Alternatives, Tate Britain, Millbank Estate TMO and Chelsea College of Art & Design are working together to celebrate Europe Day on the 9-10 May 2014 at our "Transeuropa ... 02/04/2014 - If politicians want to try and understand how people live, they need to really step out on the streets and not try and reach out to to Mr & Mrs Average. How does politics engage with voters for the ...
Les Bullshit jobs sont -ils vraiment utiles ? — Article initialement publié le 6 septembre 2013 Dans un essai publié dans le magazine britannique de gauche radicale Strike!, David Graeber, anthropologue et figure de proue du mouvement Occupy Wall Street s’en prend à ce qu’il appelle les « bullshit jobs » — comprendre : les « jobs à la con ». Paru le 17 août dernier, le pamphlet de l’anthropologue américain n’a pas tardé à être commenté à tout va. Serions-nous entrés dans une ère de bureaucratisation extrême de l’économie, à l’origine d’une effarante multiplication d’emplois inutiles ? Selon David Graeber, une vaste majorité de travailleurs de bureau sont, à notre époque, aliénés en étant soumis à des tâches « inutiles et vides de sens » tandis qu’ils ont pleinement conscience de ne produire qu’un apport « superficiel pour la société ». Alors que la robotisation du travail a effectivement eu lieu dans de nombreux secteurs, « la technologie a été manipulée pour trouver des moyens de nous faire travailler plus ».
Ming the Mechanic: Ten incredible things we get for free by Flemming Funch Life2.0: Here are 10 wonderful things that just seem to happen by themselves: • Diversity & Harmony • Connection & Friendship • Self-organisation & Synergy • Resonance & Synchronicity • Insight & The spread of great ideas • Emergence & Paradigm Shifts • Learning & Growth • Happiness & Flow • Healing & Forgiveness • Relaxation & Enlightenment Not a bad list is it? Don't you find it comforting to know that without our interference things have a way of working out just fine... that life is basically set up to help us succeed no matter what? And all of these phenomena seem to work whether we believe in them or not. Philip Dick defined reality as 'that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away'. My favorite stuff in life is that kind of stuff that comes for free, the stuff one can't control, but that is great when it happens. And my favorite passtime is to try to figure out how to make those kinds of things happen anyway. That's a bit of a paradox, of course.
Prosumerismo, digital divide e McDonaldizzazione sui siti web | CompassUnibo Blog L’obiettivo dell’articolo è quello di dimostrare il forte legame fra la visibilità ottenibile sulle varie piattaforme web, social e il denaro. Come piattaforma di hosting di siti web ho scelto WordPress.com perché ho con essa un’esperienza diretta, ma lo stesso discorso vale per le altre. Partiamo proprio dalla mia esperienza. Dal 12 settembre 2018 sono iscritto alla piattaforma di WordPress, che consente di dare vita al proprio blog. Un blog è un sito web dove è possibile caricare qualsiasi contenuto all’interno di un articolo. Prima di spiegare il perché di questa affermazione, intendo specificare che il ruolo di blogger appartiene a una delle tante forme di prosumerismo che compongono la società odierna. In generale, si può affermare che il prosumer è piacevolmente sfruttato, è contento di ciò dal momento in cui le forme di sfruttamento non sono evidenti e crede di ottenere dei vantaggi dalla sua attività. Questa situazione conduce in un contesto di pericolo e opportunità. Mi piace: