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Dear all,
>From the 21st of August we will be joining our forces to kick off
Koppelting 2017, a week long p2p festival at De WAR.
During the weekdays we will work in-depth on a few dedicated projects.
Create the food of the future at the Foodlab. Help out in the development
of the open source CMS 'Hypha'. Join the team that will make the Biolab
GCMS open source. Or bring your own project!
In the weekend, 26 and 27 August, there will be an unconference on a broad
variety of topics that participants bring in, ranging from a demonstration
on bacterial knitting, a lecture by Kris de Decker of Lowtech Magazine, to
the start of a new, critical local press.
There will be the occasion to meet like-minded people, share a good meal
and engage in conversation.
In any case we would like to invite you to sign up for the event at
koppelting.org/en/festival/signup and share your knowledge, ideas and
concerns with your peers this summer during the event. All types of
contributions are welcome: presentations, workshops, debates, theatre
performances; you name it! Watch the line-up as it automatically expands
here: koppelting.org/en/festival2017/lineup.
The cost of organising the conference will be distributed amongst all
participants, speakers and non-speakers alike. It will be pay as you like,
but if we meet an average of €50 per person we can afford to cover some
basic costs of the venue, serve free coffee, tea, breakfast and lunch and
have all the talks streamed and recorded.
Best regards,
Diana, Fierman, Harmen, Katrien, Maarten, Matthijs
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Selected References:
Baue, B. (2017): Blueprint 3. Data Integration, Contextualization &
Activation for Multicapital Accounting. Reporting 3.0.
reporting3.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/R3_Data_Blueprint_Report-1.pdf
Meadows, D. (1998): Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable
Development. Sustainability Institute. donellameadows.org/wp-content/
userfiles/IndicatorsInformation.pdf
* Meadows actually repeats human capital here, but lists “wealth” in this
section, so we took the liberty of re-labeling in order to conform with the
field of multicapitalism that has emerged in recent years — for example
through the International Integrated Reporting Council’s Integrated
Reporting Framework and Mark McElroy’s MultiCapital Scorecard — trusting
that this remains true to Meadows’ — and Daly’s — original intention.
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From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 7:45 AM
Subject: Money for the People (GTN Discussion)
To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com
>From Bill Baue <bbaue(a)verizon.net>
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[Moderator's Note: Today's the last day for commenting, and then Mary will
have her opportunity to respond. Thanks, all! --- JC]
Monetization and Blockchain
This has been a rich and wide-ranging conversation, so I’m chiming in now
to add to one issue that’s been mentioned already, and address one issue
that hasn’t been mentioned yet (as far as I can tell, though there has been
so much posted I apologize if this is duplicative.)
My opening caveat is that I’m specifically refraining from weighing in on
the more ambitious proposal of the wholesale transformation of money. My
contributions are far more humble and circumscribed. I want to discuss the
question of “monetization” and make a related point about blockchain, which
has already been discussed, though not from this angle, I believe.
And a few preliminary words of the context from which these comments
spring: a work that I wrote that was recently published by the Reporting
3.0 Platform (where I’m a Senior Director), in the Data Blueprint: Data
integration, contextualization & activation for multicapital accounting.
This report draws significantly from the 1998 report to the Balaton Group,
authored by Donella Meadows, called Indicators and Information Systems for
Sustainable Development. In particular, we draw on the "Daly Triangle,”
named after Herman Daly (who is of course a member of the Great Transition
Initiative network and has contributed to this dialogue). As part of our
12-month Data Blueprint collaborative development process, we took in
feedback in a virtual dialogue (similar to this forum) that the Daly
Triangle — which links the Ultimate Means of Natural Capital through the
Intermediate Means of Human and Built Capital to the Intermediate Ends of
Social and Financial* Capital to the Ultimate
Ends of Well-Being — doesn’t reflect the notion of thresholds or the
carrying capacities of the capitals** that Meadows stresses at one
important point in her report.
So, we took the liberty of “updating” the Daly Triangle in an effort to
integrate such thresholds, borrowing the conceptual framework of Kate
Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics” that posit ecological ceilings (inspired by
Johan Rockstrom’s Planetary Boundaries) and social foundations. What we
ended up with was the “Daly Hourglass,” with the capital stocks represented
as cycles, and capital flows connecting the Ultimate Means to the
Intermediate Means and Intermediate Ends to the Ultimate Ends — with the
sustainability thresholds intersecting at the capital flows, thus
discerning the carrying capacities of the capitals.
I describe this primarily to note that the paramount importance of linking
Ultimate Means (Natural Capital — which we know we as a people are now
over-tapping on an annualized basis, as the Ecological Footprint that
William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel co-conceived tells us Earth Overshoot
Day was Aug 2) with Ultimate Ends (Well-being — or what Mary Mellor
wonderfully calls “wellth”)
Now, on to my main points:
Monetization: Money is, as Mary Mellor points out, more a symbol than a
tangible thing. Accordingly, money is used not only to “represent”
financial transactions, but it’s also increasingly used as a “normalizing”
mechanism to generate a kind of equivalence or comparability between
otherwise disparate things. A carbon price, for example, is a kind of
monetization. So as you see, I’m addressing an issue that’s related to
Mellor’s essay, but not the main focus. But I believe it warrants inclusion
in this discussion, because of 1) its increasing prevalence and importance
and 2) the potential to “reform” its use, since it isn’t quite the
Pandora’s box of money itself.
In the Data Blueprint, we look at the case example of how The Crown Estate
uses “monetization” in its multicapital “Total Contribution” accounting
approach to “normalize” (or “commonalize” as they say) between the various
positive and negative economic, social, and environmental impacts the
company has on the world. We take a brief trip down a side alley to look at
some of the critiques of such monetization (these focused on KPMG’s True
Value Methodology, which is sufficiently similar to Total Contribution to
make our point), primarily leveled at the ethics of such a move (KPMG
itself acknowledges the ethical dilemmas involved in the academic journal
that you can find referenced in the Blueprint).
And here’s where the strands weave together: in the Data Blueprint, we
applaud Total Contribution for taking a multicapital approach, but we
critique its use of monetization in the absence of contextualization within
the carrying capacities of capitals. Here, we lean on the work of Mark
McElroy of the Center for Sustainable Organizations (who conceived
Context-Based Sustainability, and with whom I co-founded the Sustainability
Context Group in 2012), who has proposed that monetization makes sense only
when contextualizing the carrying capacities of capitals, and he
illustrates his point using “Context-Based Monetization Cost Curves”
whereby the “cost” of a resource (say, the carbon cycle) is directly linked
to the overall carrying capacity of that capital resource, such that costs
are very low when the capital stock is cycling within the carrying
capacity, and becomes increasingly expensive as the carrying capacity is
neared, and prohibitively expensive when the
sustainability threshold of the carrying capacity is crossed.
Of course, Context-Based Sustainability (based as it is in the work of Dana
Meadows, with whom Mark collaborated as Chair of Dana's Sustainability
Institute) is predicated on managing capitals within their carrying
capacities not just for the health of those resources, but ultimately for
the sake of the stakeholders who rely on those resources for their
well-being (wealth).
So, as you can see, the idea of linking monetization to capital sufficiency
in service of well-being is consistent with the premise of Mary Mellor’s
essay, but is achievable without quite as much ambition and “disruption” as
overturning our monetary system.
Blockchain: In the Data Blueprint, we also present two pilot projects that
use blockchain to track “transactions” — one pilot, a collaboration between
Reporting 3.0, Radboud University, and Noorden Duurzam, is a
“habitat-based” implementation to track financial, social, and ecological
value flows in the north of the Netherlands. The other, a collaboration
between Reporting 3.0 and Guard Global, applies to the investment realm,
using XBRL tagging taxonomies to track such flows as well. Significantly,
both pilots are seeking to integrate a contextual “filter” into the
blockchain that assesses if the flow is “sustainable” — i.e. within
carrying capacity. One of the benefits of blockchain technology is that it
can maintain confidentiality (for example, of the actual data involved in
the transaction) while simultaneously allowing for the authentication of
that data within the blockchain — thereby enabling the scrutiny (assurance
or auditing, if you will) of
proprietary data without compromising the secure nature of the data.
Here again, we believe that this approach to blockchain holds significant
promise, as it enables the insertion of contextual assessment — namely,
respect for sustainability thresholds that are tied to well-being (wellth)
— in ways that are implementable within the existing financial and social
regime, while also transforming those regimes in ways that align with the
goals of the Great Transition.
Thanks all of you for such a great dialogue!
Best,
Bill Baue
Senior Director
Reporting 3.0 Platform
reporting3.org/
Selected References:
Baue, B. (2017): Blueprint 3. Data Integration, Contextualization &
Activation for Multicapital Accounting. Reporting 3.0.
reporting3.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/R3_Data_Blueprint_Report-1.pdf
Meadows, D. (1998): Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable
Development. Sustainability Institute. donellameadows.org/wp-content/
userfiles/IndicatorsInformation.pdf
* Meadows actually repeats human capital here, but lists “wealth” in this
section, so we took the liberty of re-labeling in order to conform with the
field of multicapitalism that has emerged in recent years — for example
through the International Integrated Reporting Council’s Integrated
Reporting Framework and Mark McElroy’s MultiCapital Scorecard — trusting
that this remains true to Meadows’ — and Daly’s — original intention.
** Here again, for absolutely strict accuracy, Meadows didn’t use the term
“capitals” in association with “carrying capacity,” but she does discuss
the capitals in depth throughout the report.
**********************************
On Jul 1, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Great Transition Network <
gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> wrote:
>From Paul Raskin <praskin(a)tellus.org>
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Dear GTN,
The old proverb—money is the root of all evil—may overstate the case, but
money is, indeed, implicated in the iniquitous debt/growth spiral now
degrading Earthland.
Mary Mellor explains in her new GTI essay, “Money for the People,” that it
needn’t be so. The modern money system is a social construct that evolved
to spur capital accumulation, but lingers on in an era needing, instead, to
throttle consumerism, debt, and the economic growth machine. Rather than
creating money privately through bank lending, as the current system does,
an alternative approach—public money—can undergird an economy oriented
toward people and use value, not profit and exchange value.
I think you’ll find Mary’s vision of a critical institutional pillar of a
Great Transition economy illuminating, intriguing, and inspiring. Please
read it at www.greattransition.org/publication/money-for-the-people, and
let the comments and questions begin! How would public money work in
practice? How would it interface with the market? How might its pursuit
contribute to strategies for system change?
Comments are welcome through JULY 31.
Looking forward,
Paul Raskin
GTI Director
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alongside a “Roundtable,” comprised of selected comments from the GTN
discussion and a response from the author.
PS: Apologies for any difficulties getting to the website over the past
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From: David Kyuman Kim <dkkim(a)conncoll.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:40 PM
Subject: Hiring for revolutionary love project
To: Love Driven Politics Collective <love.driven.politics(a)gmail.com>,
Love-Drive Politics Collective <lovedriven(a)googlegroups.com>
Hi folks.
Our dear sister Valarie Kaur is hiring for the Revolutionary Love Project.
Please share the call with your respective networks. And, as always, stay
strong!
David
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[image: Inline image 1]
*we are hiring!*
The Revolutionary Love Project <http://www.revolutionarylove.net/>,
led by Valarie
Kaur <http://www.valariekaur.com/>, is making its first hires: a Senior
Associate to lead communications and strategy and a Research Scholar to
support thought leadership. Both positions are currently part-time with the
likelihood of becoming full-time. The Revolutionary Love Project is based
at the University of Southern California ORL. Candidates may be located
anywhere, with a slight preference for Los Angeles. Most work will be done
remotely.
Listing: http://www.revolutionarylove.net/#section-join-our-team
*SENIOR ASSOCIATE*
The Senior Associate will serve as right-hand to Valarie Kaur and co-lead
communications and strategy for the Revolutionary Love Project. This
position is designed for a professional who can write for public audiences,
contribute to high-level movement-building, and manage day-to-day project
execution. The Associate must be an outstanding writer and have strong
communications experience, including engaging online audiences through
e-blasts and social media. We are seeking a candidate who can grow with
Kaur over the long-term as a thought partner as well as execute
communications with precision and excellence. If you are seeking social
justice work with start-up energy, this position offers an opportunity to
build the movement within the movement — to champion the ethic of love
within the Resistance.
Duties Include
- Develop short-term and long-term strategic plans for the Revolutionary
Love Project.
- Draft and implement regular e-blasts, calls to action, and social
media posts.
- Help draft grants, articles, and other vital communications as needed.
- Manage and engage audiences on email and social media and respond to
inquiries.
- Update and maintain websites: www.revolutionarylove.net
<http://www.revolutionarylove.net/>and www.valariekaur.com
<http://www.valariekaur.com/>
- Represent Revolutionary Love at meetings with movement partners and at
public events.
- Tap volunteers for as-needed research support.
Work Experience and Capabilities
- Excellent writing and communication skills for mainstream audiences,
i.e. able to produce clear analysis that ignites the imagination and
storytelling that moves the heart.
- Substantial background in writing and engaging public audiences in
social movements or related nonprofit organizations.
- Experience developing a brand, building an organization, and/or
leading action campaigns.
- Ability to build an online community and lead social media engagement
via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Comfort with WordPress, MailChimp,
YouTube and other engagement tools and platforms.
- Ability to work with flexible hours and in rapid response when
required.
- Strong listening and strategic thinking skills.
Ideal Qualities
- Entrepreneurial spirit, dedication, flexibility, vision, attuned to
the news cycle and pulse of the movement, sense of joy inside the work.
To Apply
This position will begin immediately as a part-time paid position, starting
at 10-15 hours/week. It may grow into a full-time position, pending
performance and funding. Payment is commensurate with experience.
Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest and resume.
Applicants are encouraged to use the letter to convey why they are an ideal
match for this position and demonstrate communications acumen.
Applicants should send a letter of interest and resume to Meha Charaya
meha.chiraya(a)revolutionarylove.net on or before July 31, 2017.
For background, review:
- www.revolutionarylove.net
- www.groundswell-mvmt.org <http://www.groundswell-mvmt.org/>
- www.valariekaur.com <http://valariekaur.com/>
- www.facebook.com/scroll.in/videos/1307124816037062
............................................................
......................................
*RESEARCH SCHOLAR*
The Research Scholar will directly support Valarie Kaur in writing a book
on Revolutionary Love. The book is a memoir and manifesto on practicing the
ethic of love in an era of rage and will be accompanied by a curriculum and
toolkit. It draws upon multiple disciplines and modes of knowledge. The
Research Scholar will produce weekly memos on topics that arise in the book
writing and engage in regular meetings with the author as a thought
partner. The Scholar will take the lead on building the curriculum for
Revolutionary Love, as an ethic and practice, and assist the author on the
development of the toolkit. The Scholar will be acknowledged in the book
credits and have the opportunity to continue to shape the Project as it
grows. This position is designed for a professional with substantial
research and writing experience, such as an academic, author, or researcher
seeking to collaborate on innovative thought leadership.
Research topics could include
- Philosophical, ethical, and theological sources on love.
- Science, biology, and psychology of love.
- Legal and political thought on love in social justice and politics.
- Archival research on family and community histories.
- Tools for cultivating love as a form of interior, interpersonal, and
social transformation.
- Represent Revolutionary Love at meetings with movement partners and at
public events.
- Civil rights issues such as hate crimes, racism, mass incarceration,
immigration, etc.
Ideal Qualities
- Inter-disciplinary thinking, strong educational background, research
experience, clear and compelling writing, flexibility, vision, and sense of
joy in the work.
To Apply
This paid part-time position begins immediately, starting at 10-15
hours/week. Payment is commensurate with experience. Interested applicants
should submit a letter of interest and resume. Applicants are encouraged to
use the letter to convey why they are an ideal match for this position and
demonstrate communications acumen.
Applicants should send a letter of interest and resume to Meha Charaya
meha.chiraya(a)revolutionarylove.net on or before July 31, 2017.
For background, review:
- www.revolutionarylove.net
- www.groundswell-mvmt.org <http://www.groundswell-mvmt.org/>
- www.valariekaur.com <http://valariekaur.com/>
- www.facebook.com/scroll.in/videos/1307124816037062
XXX
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www.valariekaur.com <http://valariekaur.com/> | @valariekaur
<http://twitter.com/#%21/valariekaur>
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www.valariekaur.com <http://valariekaur.com/> | @valariekaur
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From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 8:21 PM
Subject: [Networked-Labour] Fwd: Call for a Tektological Rethinking of
Modern Marxian Critique of Global (including cultural-gender-enviromental)
Political Economy from an Organizational and Praxis Point of Views
To: Networked Labour <networked-labour_igopnet(a)lists.igopnet.cc>
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From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2 August 2017 at 15:00
Subject: Call for a Tektological Rethinking of Modern Marxian Critique of
Global (including cultural-gender-enviromental) Political Economy from an
Organizational and Praxis Point of Views
To: Discussion list about the WSF <worldsocialforum-discuss@
openspaceforum.net>
Dear all,
Sharing an in progress call text, towards collectively re-imagining and
re-building a (Wiki)encyclopedia, today, for the emancipation of the
oppressed peoples/classes by and for themselves. It is supposed to be part
of a common resource, a bibliography, part of an effort to build up a
broader self-education and self-learning (by the oppressed) structure, 100
years after Alexander Bogdanov made his initial call at the all-Russia
ProletKult congress in Moscow (https://www.academia.edu/1644
8605/Science_and_the_Working_Class_Bogdanov_1918_).
Working title of the project is P2P, the Commons, and Tektological Critique
of Global Political Economy at the moment, and draft text can be read here:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Bibliography_for_the_Global_Political_Economy
And here where we try to develop an argument, which is also in progress,
behind the call: https://www.academia.edu/33142
201/The_Bogdanovite_Turn_Call_for_a_Tektological_Rethinking_
of_Modern_Marxian_Critique_of_Global_Political_Economy_from_
an_Organizational_Point_of_View
This is an accompanying co-mapping project: Tektology of the Emergent
Transnational Managerial Class and the Demise of Capitalist World System:
>From Imperialism to Cyber Imperialism, the Current Highest Probably the
Last Stage of Capitalism
<https://graphcommons.com/graphs/64d91469-5f7d-4dba-9204-c8574945948c>
Any feedback and contribution is more then appreciated!
In solidarity
Orsan
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From: Pat Conaty <pat.commonfutures(a)phonecoop.coop>
Date: Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:58 PM
Subject: Land reform and its history
Just thought I would recommend a very good book to you all. It is called
Owning the Earth (the Transforming history of land ownership) by the
Scottish writer, Andro Linklater. He died a week before this beautiful book
came out in 2013. He was researching then his next book on land reform in
Scotland. He did an earlier book called Measuring America that was highly
acclaimed.
This his last book covers some 500 years since the emergence of private
property rights under Queen Elizabeth 1, but covers so much stuff and in so
many different countries and continents. He explores communal property
systems, the land reform struggles in Latin America, the Mexican ejidos,
the reasons why serfdom collapsed under its own contradictions in Russia
when the serfs were then liberated in the 1860s to access basically finance
to pay off their insolvent landlords.
He also delves into the different philosophical perspectives of property
rights and shows how these have trumped human rights again and again. Hence
the perversity of their sanctity if private property excludes other human
and social rights. The views of Austrian economists like Von Mises and
Hayek is the worst on this score and extreme compared to Locke (which is
bad enough)
His analysis of financialisation is interesting and spans the twist and
turns of the 100 years up to 2008. He shows how housing finance underpins
the entire money system and this was the antidote to a perspective like
that of Keynes.
What is very revealing in his analysis is the reasons why private property
does make sense up to certain very constrained limits (to meet household or
personal needs). This was implicit in the thinking of Rousseau in his
Discourse on Inequality. But also post World War 2 to eradicate feudalism
and limit a return to fascism in Japan, US policy was to instigate a Land
to the Tiller programme that broke up the feudal estates still strong in
order to provide small plots to farmers who were heavily oppressed by the
residual power of the samurai. But also in Taiwan and South Korea the same
Land to the Tiller reforms were introduced then. As a consequence what this
led to was the Asian Tiger levels of productivity that could feed cities
and a form of republicanism that forged democracy.
However this was at risk of gaining in popularity more widely. Indeed the
land reform in Guatemala in 1954 and the threat this posed to US interests
led to a super fast curtailment of Land to the Tiller programmes support by
US foreign policy and a repression of anything like this again.
The data Linklater provides shows the sound economics of systems where land
can be managed in both mutual or commons ways with leases to small
producers. So very much a Community Land Trust approach. This partially
happened in late 19th century Russia under the Mir system and before the
Lenin and Stalin fully nationalised land. But what seems crucial is the
balance between limited private property rights under a leasehold system
and broader stewardship/commons rights.
What Linklater argues is that the ownership question viz. land and
intellectual property is key as this is where the politics reside, not in
the economics and markets as is standard but the wrong-headed view.
He touches on a clear understanding of the commons here and there. This is
implicit but it does not take away from what a fabulous book this is.
His critique of Thatcherism, Reaganomics and Austrian economics is
blisteringly brilliant I think.
So sad he died. Well worth a read and a book I really could not put down.
He is a wonderful historian.
All the best
Pat
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