Diigo Update 04/30/2019

• Reinventing the Commons – Schumacher Center for New Economics

  Tags: commons, economics, history, community empowerment, collaboration, sustainability, governance

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Diigo Update 04/29/2019

• Commons Work: Introduction to the Commons | On the Commons

  Tags: collaboration, commons, sustainability, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 04/26/2019

• The Buckminster Fuller Institute

  OUR STORY For 30 years, BFI has supported a growing international network of Fuller-inspired innovators through the maintenance of a comprehensive Information Clearinghouse on R.B Fuller, including a detailed inventory of the practices and principles informing Fuller's approach to design.

  Tags: innovation, design, thinktank, invention, institute

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 04/24/2019

• CalRecycle Home Page

  California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) brings together the state's recycling and waste management programs and continues a tradition of environmental stewardship.

  Tags: environmental, recycling, california, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 04/23/2019

• P2P Foundation

  The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is "Together we know everything, together we have everything", i.e. pooling our resources through commons, creates prosperity for all. We document thousands of initiatives going in that direction on order to create "Hope with evidence".

  Tags: commons, peer, foundation, community empowerment, sustainability, collaboration, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Home Page - P2P Foundation

  The P2P Foundation (officially, The Foundation for P2P Alternatives) is a non-profit organization and global network dedicated to advocacy and research of commons-oriented peer to peer (P2P) dynamics in society.

  Tags: commons, advocacy, research, community empowerment, collaboration, sustainability, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 04/17/2019

• New Local Government Network » New Local Government Network

  NLGN believes that local government, their partners, and the communities they lead, must undergo a profound cultural shift to embrace three core ‘changemaking’ values of creativity, collaboration and self-determination. Only then will councils and citizens be able to generate the many innovations necessary to solve our biggest social problems. 

  Tags: “local, government, network”, community empowerment, collaboration, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Themes: Complex Time - Adaptation, Aging, Arrow of Time | Santa Fe Institute

  Time in complex systems operates concurrently at different scales, runs at multiple rates, and integrates the function of numerous connected systems. We describe these processes as “complex time” as opposed to the simple, regular clock time of physical phenomena. In complex time age includes explicitly the coupling between information gain and information loss.

  Tags: “, complex, time”, Santa, Fe, institute”, adaptation, complexity

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Streets & Transportation | Category

  For decades, we have been building transportation through communities, rather than creating communities through transportation. Streets designed only to move cars can work so much harder. They can certainly carry more people by more modes of transportation—but they can also become great places in their own right.

  Tags: streets, transportation, PlaceMaking, sustainability, cities, economic development, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 04/13/2019

• Restore Commons - Ideas compelling enough and citizens inventive enough to restore the common good

  An initiative of Peter Block and friends, Restore Commons aims to curate the ways of thinking and practice towards the common good. The move to the commons is well underway. We simply want to document it. Restore Commons is designed to be an online gathering place for stories and radical ideas strong enough to build the social capital and engaged community required to restore the common good. The website features a variety of content including stories, articles, videos and podcasts that highlight inverted and radical thinking that is essential to an alternative economy, a connected neighborhood, and ways of dealing with the end of the so-called consumerist middle class. This is what is required to restore compassion, civility and interdependence that is disturbingly fragile in today’s world. The focus is on place-based, localized and grassroots initiatives that are alternatives to the tools of empire.

  Tags: commons, ideas, citizens, community empowerment, collaboration, sustainability, governance

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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