On Thursday 11 June, Flow Africa hosted a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Cape Town, founder of the P2P Foundation and a leading theorist, writer, researcher and activist around the Commons, Peer Production, Copyfair, Cooperative economics, Distributed manufacture, and the Sharing and Collaborative Economy. The FLOW team first shared the …
Atmospherics from the FLOW P2P Workshop in Cape Town on 11 June 2015
On Thursday 11 June, Flow Africa hosted a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Cape Town, founder of the P2P Foundation and a leading theorist, writer, researcher and activist around the Commons, Peer Production, Copyfair, Cooperative economics, Distributed manufacture, and the Sharing and Collaborative Economy. The FLOW team first shared the …
The Field Guide Announces “A Year in the Life of a Regenerative Bank”
Ethical Markets is happy to see this focus on Ken La Roe’s FIRST GREEN BANK , our neighbor here in Florida . Also see our TV show with Ken La Roe at www.ethicalmarkets.tv and in worldwide distribution to colleges and libraries at www.films.com . We congratulate our colleagues at Capital …
Library of Things, Bologna’s Bold Experiment & Collaboration
Bologna Celebrates One Year of a Bold Experiment in Urban Commoning Unique city policy has turned “no you can’t” into “yes we can together.” Read more » > COMMUNITY A Library of Things Puts Frome On the Map as a Sharing Town This innovative project provides a physical hub for …
Cornerstone Flagship Report: “Dissecting the ‘Sharing Economy’: Business model opportunities and risks”
To Cornerstone Clients and Colleagues, The sharing economy was founded on an ethos of collaboration for mutual benefit. However, as the basic concept has taken hold, entrepreneurs have shifted the emphasis from “open-source” collaborations to commercial enterprises. Between Uber’s $50 billion valuation, Etsy’s IPO and the large venture capital infusions …
New issue of The Bridge focuses on lending
New issue of The Bridge focuses on lending The Bridge profiles and celebrates the Federation and member credit unions’ experiences and successes in helping low-income people and communities achieve financial independence. This issue focuses on lending. As lenders to low-income consumers our mission is to manage risk, not minimize …
Living Like It’s 2050: A Transition Farm in North Carolina – See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/transition/living-like-its-2050-a-transition-farm-in-north-carolina-.html#sthash.WRmNA09F.dpuf
What is the Transition Town Movement? It is a worldwide movement, working off a template created in Totnes, UK. They are comprised of vibrant, grassroots initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Whatever your conclusions …
Local Governments Win Solar at 9 Cents per Kilowatt-Hour With Collaborative Procurement
“I cannot tell you how exciting it is to be at another landfill,” said Administrator Gina McCarthy of the U.S. EPA while at this week’s announcement of the nation’s largest “multi-agency collaborative procurement for solar power.” That procession of bureaucratic terms is actually a lot more exciting (and difficult to …
Monique F. Leroux Advocating for Cooperatives before the IASB, the FSB and the B7
Monique F. Leroux Advocating for Cooperatives before the IASB, the FSB and the B7 Sharing the Alliance’s perspective on international accounting standards Last January, acting in her capacity as Chair of the International Accounting Standards Working Group of the Alliance, Monique F. Leroux, Chair of the Board, President & …
New Book Celebrates the Booming Little Free Library Movement
New Book Celebrates the Booming Little Free Library Movement How the first Little Free Library came to be, and how the movement has spread to include over 25,000 of them in 70 countries! Read more » > TECH Interviewed: Joel Dietz on Distributed Collaborative Organizations Building off the ‘blockchain’ technology …