A commons is an asset over which a community has shared and equal rights. This could, in principle, include land, water, minerals, knowledge, scientific research and software. But at the moment most of these assets have been enclosed: seized by either the state or private interests and treated as any other form of capital. Through this enclosure, we have been deprived of our common wealth.
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How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation - Evonomics - 0 views
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The restoration of the commons has great potential not only to distribute wealth but also to change society. As the writer David Bollier points out, a commons is not just a resource (land or trees or software) but also the community of people managing and protecting it. The members of the commons develop much deeper connections with each other and their assets than we do as passive consumers of corporate products.
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Managing common resources means developing rules, values and traditions. It means, in some cases, re-embedding ourselves in the places in which we live. It means reshaping government to meet the needs of communities, not corporations. In other words, reviving the commons can act as a counterweight to the atomising, alienating forces now generating a thousand forms of toxic reaction.
Welcome to the Community Exchange System - 0 views
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ith the impending implosion of the usury-based, global money system, now is the time to seek a new way of 'doing' money, one not based on debt and controlled by a global monetary elite who seem happy about destroying our planet in the pursuit of profit.
Are We Headed For 'Automated Luxury Communism'? - 0 views
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This is the theory of ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism’, an idea and ideology that in the (near) future, machines could provide for all our basic needs, and humans would be required to do very minimal work — perhaps as little as 10–12 hours a week — on quality control and similar oversight, to ensure luxury for everyone.
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The trick, however, is subordinating the technology to global human needs rather than profits.
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Putting modern technology to work for the people is an excellent goal, and democratizing the advantages of our advances is already happening. It is a worthy cause to bring governments and nonprofit organizations onto the same technological footing as for-profit companies could result in huge strides towards improving living conditions, decreasing crime, ending poverty and other problems.
Bristol channels money back into community | Positive News - 1 views
What it means to be Administrator - 0 views
Akronist - Akron/Ohio - Kent Community Time Bank trades time and services - 0 views
Time Banking Within the Natural History of Debt « Volatility - 0 views
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Time banking is a formal framework for organizing the true economy (everything devalued by the money/debt system, including what's written off as the "informal economy") along the lines of reciprocal gifting of work. It's especially versatile for the exchange of services, but can be used for goods as well with a version of the labor measure of value. Goods can be valued according to the time that goes into manufacturing them. This framework is enfolded within the concept of co-production, which is a transitional concept between capitalism and full economic democracy. Time banking as a framework and time dollars as a measure are part of this transition to such consciousness of economic community and freedom that we can dispense with formal measurement completely and restore the wholesome primal system of social credit which originally preceded money for tens of thousands of years.
Living in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence and Questions of Equity - The Patterning - 0 views
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We need to be humble and accept that our entire conception of the world may be wrong. We should seek silence and contemplate our place in the great expanse of the cosmos. We should take pleasure in the rich flavor of our daily bread, rather than search and search for the perfectly arranged food selfie. We should spend our time solving the hard problems of society like injustice and bigotry and ecological crisis, rather than waste our time moving numbers around on a screen to justify outdated modes of energy production. We should enjoy the everyday fraternity of our communities, rather than constantly hunting for a new enemy.
Bricks-and-Mortar Banks Stage a Comeback - 0 views
Ohio drops revocation of driver's licenses - 0 views
Commit to Local Action - 0 views
An Economy of Meaning - or Bust | naked capitalism - 0 views
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A human has only so many minutes in life. Time is the bedrock scarcity. If a person isn’t doing something meaningful in a given moment, he’s doing something less than meaningful. He’s wasting at least some of his potential. By meaningful, I don’t mean productive, in an economic sense. I mean important to the person, to her own wellbeing.
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In short, “good” economic systems would produce economies of meaning that help us to help one another live meaningful lives—to meet real needs and solve problems that matter.
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Cities, big and small, are the legs upon which all national systems rest. Already cities and their communities are hubs for innovation. With some further encouragement and support, and the right tools and programs, they could become more resilient and robust, and bigger heroes in the coming great transition.
California Federation of Time Banks - 0 views
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The California Federation of Time Banks is a collaborative network committed to connecting, sharing information, and supporting the expansion of Time Banking in the state. From the largest cities to the smallest towns, we celebrate the many innovative ways time banking can address social issues and creatively fill the gaps by strengthening relationships in our neighborhoods. Based on the fundamental values of respect and reciprocity, we are a creative learning community that shares experiences, trades best practices and empowers each other to work for a healthy, sustainable future.