Back To The Land 2.0
: A Design Agenda For Bioregions, by John Thackara
The Presidential Candidate for Basic Income. Meet Andrew Yang (interviewed by Joe Rogan)
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a ground-breaking book - calling for the Net to return to the people
Buses full of fresh fruit and veg in Toronto, "community-led homes" across the UK. Your systems in your hands
Finland's result on its UBI experiment: people don't shirk work. And it increases trust, health & wellbeing
"B Corps" - for-benefit corporations (rather than only for-profit) - are proving their worth
It seems the idea of a four-day working week is going mainstream. Onwards to 21 hours?
Trebek and Williams ask: What if we ran our economies and societies as if we had “arrived” - instead of obsessing about progress?
What is "soft infrastructure"? Maybe it's using the batteries of parked electric cars as stores for renewable energy
Free beer (and ice cream) for cycling in Bologna, local retail services for volunteering in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Communities can incentivise themselves
Do you know your "commons-based peer production" from your "cosmo-localism"? A jargon test on our discourse here
"A culture of contented sufficiency". Is that how humans have to live to save the planet?
The UK's new "5 giants" to tackle are: Inequality, Disempowerment, Isolation, Intolerance, Climate change
3D manufacturing could replace our mountains of wasteful commodities. A musician's take on the "end of stuff"
Four days for work, three days for play. And both managers and workers can see the value
Buy items for refugees in the Choose Love shop--& leave with nothing. Anti Black Friday? Or just more consumerism?
What Italian cities can teach us about how to establish urban commons - and their value
Please enjoy a few short, weird films about economics, made by artists to challenge our assumptions
Is any job better than no job? No. A "bad" job can make you feel worse than being unemployed, says Manchester Uni
One way to challenge the preeminence of big banks is to build a small one. The story of Avon Mutual
