Research
Paradigm Shift Urgently Needed In Agriculture
UN Agencies Call for an End to Industrial Agriculture & Food System A rising chorus from UN agencies on how food security, poverty, gender inequality and climate change can all be addressed by a radical transformation of our agriculture and food system Dr Mae-Wan Ho Agriculture the problem and the solution to climate change […] read more
Mae-Wan Ho
Peer-to-Peer Economy and New Civilization Centered Around the Sustenance of the Commons
The “peer to peer” and commons-oriented vision for a new type of civilization and economic system starts from an analysis of what is fundamentally wrong with the current economic system. Rather than put forward a utopian ideal, the P2P vision is based on generalizing the already emerging forms of peer production, peer governance, and peer […] read more
Michel Bauwens & Franco Iacomella
Peer-To-Peer Politics And Its Vision For The Future – Interview With Michel Bauwens
What has P2P to do with politics? Isn’t peer-to-peer related to file sharing and pirated media? As a matter of fact, peer-to-peer is not just a popular set of tools and technologies to easily share and distribute digital content, but it is also a new fascinating study field that analyzes how we could approach our […] read more
Biological Humanism as the Framework for a new culture
This is excerpted from a book originally published 30 years ago, by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. THE CONCEPT OF BIOLOGICAL HUMANISM, Dieter Duhm: “Throughout history attempts to improve the world with morality and religion and to conquer man’s savagery by appeals to reason and conscience have failed. Men are humane […] read more
Education
Healing the neoliberal urban cancer. The 53rd IMCL Conference.
Following the theme of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato si’, the 53rd International Making Cities Livable Conference, on Caring for Our Common Home: Sustainable, Healthy, Just Cities and Settlements will take place at the Pontificia Università Urbaniana, in Vatican City, June 13- 17. Neoliberal urban development is cancerous, killing a city’s social, economic and ecological sustainability. […] read more
Making the Garden
Christopher Alexander is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of A Pattern Language; The Nature of Order, Volumes I-IV; and The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth. ************************************* It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between […] read more
Christopher Alexander
