Self-provisioning and the commons economy. @commons #SustainableLiving, #SystemChange, #NewEconomy, #MutualCredit
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Going to be producing a series of articles over the coming year - 'a commoners' manifesto: why Marx was wrong'. Here's the intro. See what you think. growingcommons.substack.com/…
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See you at the Festival of Commoning in Stroud, Sep 12 & 13? Great lineup. lowimpact.org/posts/come-to-…
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'Money commons': review of the Collaborative Finance (CoFi) Gathering
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What many environmentalists get wrong about the money system, and why it's important lowimpact.org/posts/what-man… @matslats @jembendell
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How the commons, unlike other movements, can reach working-class communities.
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In London? Come learn about a #commons approach to currency and money, with me and Matthew Slater. In September we are offering an event as part of the Kairos series on #RevivingTheCommons. We will head there after the #FestivalOfCommoning in Stroud the day before.
kairos.london/event/slowing-…
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World’s first community-owned, commons climbing gym close to reality. A flagship for the commons models (around finance, governance, asset locking and federation) that we’re trialling in Stroud.
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When, though, do we move beyond shoulds and oughts - asking mummy and daddy to be better - and start building for ourselves.
We are the adults in the room (to use a phrase you know well), we should start behaving like grownups and doing needful things.
There is a strategy...
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First in a series of articles about the fundamentals of Commoning, Part 1: Introduction lowimpact.org/posts/the-fund…
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Democrats are competent neoliberals and will therefore reliably push humanity towards extinction. With Trump, there was always the hope that he would fuck up the US economy, and therefore its ability to inflict damage on the world. And I think he might have just done it.
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Second is a series of interveiws on commoning the flax/textile industry: Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services lowimpact.org/posts/commonin…
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Darren Allen on civilisational collapse - lowimpact.org/posts/darren-a…
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Feb 2025 news from the commons movement in Stroud & Liverpool lowimpact.org/posts/feb-2025… @dilgreen @cjenscook @matslats
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Friends in high places: billionaire-free, collapse-proof communications with LoRa and Meshtastic lowimpact.org/posts/friends-…
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Liberal democracy supports capitalism. What kind of governance system would support the commons economy? Conversation with Dr Sonia Bussu.
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Affordable climbing as a commons: Chikara Shimasaki of Stroud Commons youtu.be/sWlcNbrpdlA?si=MMce… via @YouTube @Camila_Vergara @dilgreen
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12 economic growth myths and how to counter them: lowimpact.org/posts/12-econo…
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So, the first ‘Festival of Commoning’ happened in Stroud on Sep 13 & 14. This is a short report from one festival-goer, Dr Laura James. lowimpact.org/posts/what-hap… @dilgreen @matslats @cjenscook
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Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition: lowimpact.org/posts/ancient-…
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Introducing commons ideas at the Festival of Commoning, Stroud, Sep 13 & 14: lowimpact.org/posts/introduc… @dilgreen @matslats @jembendell @cjenscook