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Stanford Liberationtech Needs Your Help
by Yosem Companys 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Hi All, The Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford University (LT) <http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech> has been going strong since circa 2006. Since then, LT has helped thousands design, use, and research technologies that foster the public good. Recently, the decision was made to spin off LT as an independent entity. I'm one of the people tasked with doing so. Here are LT's major needs: - Recruit people to develop a new website, logo, and graphics. - Identify a legal jurisdiction with strong security and privacy laws and regulations and a server provider with a stellar reputation at protecting user security and privacy to host the site. - Determine whether to maintain LT's mailing lists on Mailman <https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> or to transition them to a content management system (e.g., Discourse.org) - Assess the best legal structure for LT (e.g., digital cooperative). Any ideas? Thanks for your help and advice. Best, Yosem P.S. I'm sending this email on behalf LT's co-founders and not Stanford University.

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Re: [P2P-F] interesting article on DAO/Commons merger
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

what is interesting also is that they work for the huge Tata firm, one of the people that knows their work told me they expect their verticals to disintegrate within 10 years, and so they want to prepared for potential successor models, Michel On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM, <jbquilligan3(a)charter.net> wrote: > my abiding fear is how much brain-power is going into this, the money and > policy these arguments may generate, and thus the more influence ideas like > these will have in furthering future economic epistemology > > ----------------------------------------- > From: "Michel Bauwens" > To: "James Bernard Quilligan" > Cc: "Research stream email of P2P Foundation", "Vasilis Kostakis", " > visioning(a)p2pfoundation.net", "p2p-foundation", "Tiberius Brastaviceanu", > "Arthur Brock", "tiziana terranova", "Primavera De Filippi" > Sent: Friday July 6 2018 10:20:23AM > Subject: Re: interesting article on DAO/Commons merger > > yes, my take as well, by obscuring the extractive/generative distinction, > this amounts to a dilution of the commons for the market, > > Michel > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:05 PM, <jbquilligan3(a)charter.net> wrote: > >> I read this as an appeal for decentralized competitive markets. >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> From: "Michel Bauwens" >> To: "Research stream email of P2P Foundation", "Vasilis Kostakis", >> "p2p-foundation", "Tiberius Brastaviceanu", "Arthur Brock", "James Bernard >> Quilligan", "tiziana terranova", "Primavera De Filippi" >> Cc: >> Sent: Thursday July 5 2018 1:09:41AM >> Subject: interesting article on DAO/Commons merger >> >> <http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/26/htm> >> <http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/26/htm>http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/26/htm >> >> >> this fascinating and important article was recommended to me by Tibi >> >> it liberally cites P2P Foundation work and is based on considering DAO's >> as commons-based organizations. >> >> To my interpretation, the lack of distinction between extractive and >> generative practices and entities, seems problematic as it seems to be >> based on the idea that DAO's are generically commons-based >> >> Nevertheless, an interesting approach on how to use tokens inside >> 'collaborative markets' and how to protect those from the extraction by >> 'competitive markets'. >> >> Tibi, your comments would be very welcome, >> >> Michel Bauwens >> >> -- >> P2P Foundation: <http://p2pfoundation.net> <http://p2pfoundation.net> >> http://p2pfoundation.net - <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net> >> <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> Connect: <http://p2pfoundation.ning.com> <http://p2pfoundation.ning.com> >> http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation> >> http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> Updates: <http://del.icio.us/mbauwens> <http://del.icio.us/mbauwens> >> http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; <http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens> >> <http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens>http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; >> <http://twitter.com/mbauwens> <http://twitter.com/mbauwens> >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens> >> <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens>http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > P2P Foundation: <http://p2pfoundation.net>http://p2pfoundation.net - > <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Connect: <http://p2pfoundation.ning.com>http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; > Discuss: > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation> > http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: <http://del.icio.us/mbauwens>http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; > <http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens>http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; > <http://twitter.com/mbauwens>http://twitter.com/mbauwens; > <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens>http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] interesting article on DAO/Commons merger
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

yes, my take as well, by obscuring the extractive/generative distinction, this amounts to a dilution of the commons for the market, Michel On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:05 PM, <jbquilligan3(a)charter.net> wrote: > I read this as an appeal for decentralized competitive markets. > > ----------------------------------------- > From: "Michel Bauwens" > To: "Research stream email of P2P Foundation", "Vasilis Kostakis", > "p2p-foundation", "Tiberius Brastaviceanu", "Arthur Brock", "James Bernard > Quilligan", "tiziana terranova", "Primavera De Filippi" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday July 5 2018 1:09:41AM > Subject: interesting article on DAO/Commons merger > > <http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/26/htm>http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/ > 11/2/26/htm > > this fascinating and important article was recommended to me by Tibi > > it liberally cites P2P Foundation work and is based on considering DAO's > as commons-based organizations. > > To my interpretation, the lack of distinction between extractive and > generative practices and entities, seems problematic as it seems to be > based on the idea that DAO's are generically commons-based > > Nevertheless, an interesting approach on how to use tokens inside > 'collaborative markets' and how to protect those from the extraction by > 'competitive markets'. > > Tibi, your comments would be very welcome, > > Michel Bauwens > > -- > P2P Foundation: <http://p2pfoundation.net>http://p2pfoundation.net - > <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Connect: <http://p2pfoundation.ning.com>http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; > Discuss: > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation> > http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: <http://del.icio.us/mbauwens>http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; > <http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens>http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; > <http://twitter.com/mbauwens>http://twitter.com/mbauwens; > <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens>http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] challenging the identiarian agenda (Kevin Carson)
by Michel Bauwens 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Glad to hear your assessment Kevin, though I have certainlly seen examples of what Micha says here, here's an analysis of a Black Marxist: https://blackagendareport.com/are-intersectionalism-or-afro-pessimism-paths… On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 12:00 PM, < p2p-foundation-request(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: > Send P2P-Foundation mailing list submissions to > p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p- > foundation > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > p2p-foundation-request(a)lists.ourproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > p2p-foundation-owner(a)lists.ourproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of P2P-Foundation digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: challenging the identiarian agenda (Kevin Carson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:17:51 -0500 > From: Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist(a)gmail.com> > To: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] challenging the identiarian agenda > Message-ID: > <CANETeExbcxr9RjVKWStjPQUjFytaeToE808AwY+DpLtiZ3bk2A@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > IMO there's a lot of straw here -- from what I've seen in my encounters > with a whole lot of different left tendencies on social media, pure > "identitarianism" is relatively minor. The overwhelming majority of those > fighting for racial and gender justice are thoroughly intersectionalist, > reject a focus on racial and gender identity at the expense of class, and > see racial and gender oppression mutually interacting with and reinforcing > class oppression and serving the interests of capital. To the extent that > anyone in the real world elevates "identity politics" over economics and > class, it's center-left establishment interests like supporters of Clinton. > Intersectional theory was actually invented to counter the pure > identitarian movements of the 1970s (like Second Wave feminism). > > And if there's anything that's guaranteed to set off the "mansplaining" > radar of women and POC and actively alienate them, it's an article by a > white guy trying to explain that structural racism and patriarchy are > really not all that bad. > > In short, this article is an attempt to "fix" something that mostly doesn't > exist outside the imaginations of brocialists like Freddie DeBoer, and it > will be incredibly counter-productive in its effects. If anything, creating > a dichotomy between identity and class will directly serve the interests of > capital by creating new racial and gender tensions in the economic justice > movement and making it easier, not harder, to fissure economic and class > justice movements along racial and gender lines. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I recommend reading this important essay by Micha Narberhaus, I would > > also like to republish on our blog (advocacy is in cc) > > > > See http://smart-csos.org/blog-on-theory-and-practice/ > > 210-why-we-need-to-switch-the-story > > > > The essay deals with what I consider the serious exagerrations and > > one-sidedness of the identitarian left, and how it settles on an > exclusive > > narrative based on oppression and discrimation at the detriment of more > > integrative approaches. > > > > Here is a very thoughtful treatment that aims to create balance in > > transitional strategies, > > > > Michel

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challenging the identiarian agenda
by Michel Bauwens 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

I recommend reading this important essay by Micha Narberhaus, I would also like to republish on our blog (advocacy is in cc) See http://smart-csos.org/blog-on-theory-and-practice/210-why-we-need-to-switch… The essay deals with what I consider the serious exagerrations and one-sidedness of the identitarian left, and how it settles on an exclusive narrative based on oppression and discrimation at the detriment of more integrative approaches. Here is a very thoughtful treatment that aims to create balance in transitional strategies, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: fyi: Update: reNature Indonesia agro-forestry project - 5 July 2018
by Michel Bauwens 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Fortune <ryan.fortune2012(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:48 PM Subject: fyi: Update: reNature Indonesia agro-forestry project - 5 July 2018 To: James Gien Wong <gien(a)stopresetgo.org> One month into reNature <https://www.facebook.com/renaturefoundation/?fref=mentions>'s IndoForestry project, and things are BOOMING! What have we achieved so far? - 4 islands - 14 meetings - 4 partners confirmed, 12 interested - 3 presentations - 1 workshop - 300 hours preparation - 50 people of the public reached and inspired in person - 7000 followers online - 10 innovative farming initiatives visited - 17 amazing talks from Green School students witnessed - 2 golden pieces of advice from Ammatoa indigenous leader - 1000000+ ideas - 214 collective nasi gorengs - 357 collective coffees - 421 aio's - an undisclosed number of bintangs - 50 sweet potato brownies But above all, 10 of the most incredible people on the planet who are depositing all their young energy to a common cause, because they believe they can make a difference. SO PROUD OF OUR INDOTEAM !! If things keep on going this fast, our planet will be reNatured soon :D Want to know more about restoring nature through community agroforestry in Indonesia? Check out our webinar on 10 July >> https://www.facebook.com/events/2102325260004649/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/2102325260004649/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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interesting article on DAO/Commons merger
by Michel Bauwens 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/26/htm this fascinating and important article was recommended to me by Tibi it liberally cites P2P Foundation work and is based on considering DAO's as commons-based organizations. To my interpretation, the lack of distinction between extractive and generative practices and entities, seems problematic as it seems to be based on the idea that DAO's are generically commons-based Nevertheless, an interesting approach on how to use tokens inside 'collaborative markets' and how to protect those from the extraction by 'competitive markets'. Tibi, your comments would be very welcome, Michel Bauwens -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Weekend Roundup: Democracy divides Turkey’s two souls
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: The WorldPost <news(a)theworldpost.com> Date: Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 1:01 PM Subject: Weekend Roundup: Democracy divides Turkey’s two souls To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Democratic culture has become "us vs. them." Weekend Roundup: Democracy divides Turkey’s two souls Democratic culture has become "us vs. them." Nathan Gardels, Editor in Chief Visit the WorldPost at http://www.theworldpost.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…> The democratic election in Turkey this week has divided the nation. (WorldPost illustration) If further proof were needed that majoritarian democracy is not a friend of liberal values, the election in Turkey this week provides it. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s march toward autocracy was affirmed by nearly 53 percent of the vote for his continuing role as an all-powerful president. His Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) will once again dominate parliament, now in a coalition with nationalist, anti-Kurdish allies. The other half of society, which mobilized to defeat the turn away from liberal constitutionalism, has essentially been disenfranchised even though they voted. It seems the return of the repressed from Turkey’s military-enforced secular past keeps on returning at the polls. Today, majoritarian democracy has traded places with the role once played by authoritarian military rule. “There have been so many authoritarian politicians over the years trying to impose one soul on Turkey, one way of life or mode of being,” Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…> told me in 2005, not long after his novel “Snow” was published. “Some wanted to impose Western secularism by military means; some wanted Turkey to be eternally traditional and Islamic. This approach destroyed democracy in Turkey. It was responsible for the coups in the 1980s.” At that time, as Turkey still sought to join liberal Europe while consigning the military to its barracks, Pamuk expressed hope in the country’s fledgling democracy. “To have two souls is a good thing,” he said. “That is the way people really are. We have to understand that, just like a person, a country can have two souls. These souls are continuously in dialogue with each other, sparring with each other and changing each other. To have democracy is precisely to have this dialogue between these two souls.” It turns out that democracy itself has now ruptured that dialogue. In an interview with The WorldPost this week, Turkish novelist Elif Shafak <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…> places the election in a historical context and assesses what it means going forward. “Turkey, just like Russia, comes from a ‘strong state’ tradition,” she says. “This goes all the way back to the Ottoman Empire. In a strong state country, the state is always prioritized at the expense of individual freedoms and civil society, and it is easier for the political elite to willingly confuse ‘democracy’ with ‘majoritarianism.’” In reality, she continues, these are quite different. “For a democracy to exist and survive, you need more than the ballot box. You need rule of law, separation of powers, free and diverse media, independent academia, women’s rights, minority rights and freedom of speech. In Turkey, all of these components are damaged or broken after 16 years of the increasingly authoritarian rule of the AKP. How then can we call this a democracy? It is not. Once majoritarianism had been consolidated, it was a very swift fall from there into authoritarianism.” Shafak concludes: “It is a dark tunnel that my motherland has entered with this election.” Suat Kiniklioglu <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…> sees a permanent polarization consolidated by majority rule displacing civil sparring between souls. “This election has once again underlined how culturally and politically divided Turkey is,” he says. “The country is split down the middle like an apple, with half of the country for Erdogan and the other against him. Tension around crucial issues such as secularism, education and freedom of expression will continue to strain society.” The advantage in this ongoing battle resides decisively with Erdogan’s majority. “Erdogan now has all the levers of political power at his disposal: absolute control over the legislative body, the judiciary and, of course, the executive office,” writes Omer Taspinar <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…>. “Power has not been so centralized and personalized in the hands of one man since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the republic in 1923.” As for the opposition that lost yet another election to Erdogan’s majority, faith in democratic competition is waning. “Hope is a dangerous feeling in politics because it exacerbates frustrations. But hope is also what makes democracies function,” Taspinar warns. “Every election is a new hope for contenders. But when your hopes are repeatedly crushed, you lose faith in politics. Even worse, you lose faith in the legitimacy of the system. I am afraid this is the point we are perilously approaching in today’s Turkey.” For Taspinar, the already fragile dialogue between secularism and Islam has been broken by an overweening nationalism in line with other populist revolts across the democracies. “The real victor of these elections is not Erdogan but an angry Turkish nationalism with all its anti-American, anti-Kurdish and anti-Europe characteristics,” he concludes. “What we are witnessing in Erdogan’s Turkey is not an Islamic revolution. It is an alarmingly big step toward nationalist fascism.” The threat to liberal values comes not only from governments but also from social movements, as another Nobel novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RZsgs9_9DD_ELyUzuXZOh-YSO6CMBnTIpfiwuKbmXSjN…>, alludes to in an interview titled “Reading ‘Lolita’ in the #MeToo era.” “Recently we have had a big debate in Spain when a group of feminists attacked Nabokov’s ‘Lolita,’ which I think is one of the greatest 20th century novels,” he recounts. “They attacked it because they claim the main character is a pedophile. With this criterion, literature will disappear. It is grotesque! If you respect literature, you must accept not only the very idealist, altruist vision of human beings but also the infernal vision of them.” Vargas Llosa continued: “Georges Bataille said that in human beings, there are angels and devils. Sometimes the angels are important, but for literature, devils are important too. Literature is a testimony of what we want to hide in the real word. This is the raison d’être of literature. You cannot attack literature for our vices and prejudices and stupidities. I think this is very important because I am convinced that the feminist movement’s voice should be heard, but I don’t accept this idea of censorship for literature or for culture in general.” There is a truth in all this that bears pointing out. Democracy by majority rule is not a novel. If novelists faithful to reality, like Pamuk or Vargas Llosa, are compelled to chronicle the whole of human experience — its many souls with characters both saints and devils — democratic culture these days has become the opposite. 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Fwd: ARTICLE: Farming with Nature (reThink, 28 June 2018)
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

fyi ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Fortune <ryan.fortune2012(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:37 PM Subject: ARTICLE: Farming with Nature (reThink, 28 June 2018) To: James Gien Wong <gien(a)stopresetgo.org> Cc: Brenda Skelenge <breske(a)me.com>, Paul Wildman <paul(a)kalgrove.com>, Michael Thompson <mthompson.architect(a)gmail.com>, Lerato Mohapi-Thahane < thahane.lerato(a)gmail.com>, steven johnstone <steven.johnstone(a)askd.co.za>, Tom Harper <tafharper(a)gmail.com>, Andy Thomson <andythomson2000(a)gmail.com>, Jerome Osentowski <jerome(a)crmpi.org>, senai <firesenai(a)gmx.de>, Michael H Shuman <shuman(a)igc.org>, jose ramos <jose(a)actionforesight.net>, michel bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Themba Tana <thembatana(a)shaw.ca>, homeJudith Lee <judithlee(a)shaw.ca>, Rebekka Harvey <rebekkah(a)shaw.ca>, Roberto Valenti <robbyvalenti(a)gmail.com>, Bryan Curtin < bryan.curtin(a)gmail.com>, bernie <bcj1707(a)gmail.com>, conway lotter < conway(a)hubd.com>, Markus Verena's friend <easyrhinoprime(a)gmail.com>, "Marco [reNature]" <artmiks.marco(a)gmail.com>, Felipe Villela < felipebvillela(a)hotmail.com> Twelve years ago, in 2006, Haregu Gobezay was unemployed and her family with six children relied on her husband’s salary to cover all their expenses. Today, Gobezay and her husband manage a 12-hectare farm with mango, orange, mandarin, and avocado plantations in Mereb Leke District of the Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia. They also keep a few dairy cows, and chickens for egg production. They no longer rely on a single crop. The finger millet they used to grow often suffered from weed invasions and termites, and the yield was low due to thin and nutrient-poor soils. Now they grow a wide range of different crops. This has helped them tackle many challenges, and made it possible for them to employ almost a hundred people and make a good profit from selling mango and other fruits. *Agroecology has the explicit goal of strengthening the sustainability of all parts of the food system, from the seed and the soil, to the table, including ecological knowledge, economic viability, and social justice.* Gobezay started with planting vegetables; she then added fruit trees, and peanut plants as cover crops that fertilise the soil by fixing nitrogen from the air, with the help of bacteria living in their root systems. Eventually, she brought in dairy cows and started cultivating pasture plants such as alfalfa, Rhodes grass, and elephant grass under the trees. To improve soil fertility further and to increase soil organic matter, the family now prepares compost in 20 big pits. In addition, a biogas plant on the dairy farm produces bio-slurry compost and energy for cooking. The family also uses “push-pull” technology as an additional source of income. The technology was developed in Africa to control Striga weeds and insect pests, particularly stemborer moths, without using chemical pesticides. It involves growing maize, sorghum or mango trees together with flowering plants such as Desmodium that repel, or “push”, the pests, and planting other plants such as elephant grass around the crops to attract, or “pull”, the pests. Desmodium eliminates Striga weeds and repels the stemborers, which are instead attracted to the elephant grass. By growing Desmodium, the family’s farm has become a source of seeds for scaling up the push-pull technology in the whole region. More and more farmers around the world are turning away from chemical-intensive single-crop farming in favour of production methods based on diversity, local inputs of for example compost, and ecosystem services. This kind of “agroecological” farming has seen a revival in recent years as a response to the many challenges facing agriculture globally. There is growing evidence that agroecological farming systems keep carbon in the ground, support biodiversity, rebuild soils, and sustain yields, providing a basis for secure livelihoods. Today’s agriculture produces enough food for the global population, but it has not given everyone everywhere access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. Agriculture has also contributed to soil degradation <https://rethink.earth/turning-desert-to-fertile-farmland-on-the-loess-plate…>, a misuse of natural resources, and the crossing of crucial planetary boundaries that have kept Earth in a relatively stable state for the past 11,000 years, since before agriculture was invented. * CONTINUE READING:* https://rethink.earth/farming-with-nature/ -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Creator Of The World Wide Web Wants To Revolutionise Internet Again
by Michel Bauwens 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: piqd - your piqs of the day <dailydigest(a)piqd.com> Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 2:30 AM Subject: Creator Of The World Wide Web Wants To Revolutionise Internet Again To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoibjhJNFl…> News from your channels Read articles on piqd: Magda Skrzypek <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiSXhPamo…> | Technology and society <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiRzItZHl…> Creator Of The World Wide Web Wants To Revolutionise Internet Again <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/creator-of-the-world-wide…> Technology and society <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiRzItZHl…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiSXhPamo…> piqer: Magda Skrzypek 5 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/creator-of-the-world-wide…> Creator Of The World Wide Web Wants To Revolutionise Internet Again <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/creator-of-the-world-wide…> Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Since then, his invention grew from a small-scale project seeking to meet the demand for quick information-sharing between scientists around the world to what it is today: the largest repository of digital data in the world. But almost 30 years since its inception, Berners-Lee’s brainchild is not quite what he had in mind. What its founder conceived as an open and democratic platform unrestrained by any central authority is currently fully in control of governments and few big players such as Google, Facebook or Amazon. The World Wide Web “*failed*” humanity instead of serving it, the inventor told Vanity Fair's Katrina Brooker. Devastated to see his creation “*debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance*”, as Vanity Fair puts it, Berners-Lee decided to change the course of history again. He is “*determined to fight back through both his celebrity status and, notably, his skill as a coder*” and he wants us to fight with him. Anyone can contribute code to help him build a new software called Solid to re-decentralise the Web and give power over data back to the people who generate it. And to those without coding skills, Berners-Lee suggests to "*go out on the streets*" and demand change. “As public outrage grows over the centralization of the Web, and as enlarging numbers of coders join the effort to decentralize it, he has visions of the rest of us rising up and joining him,” reads the article. Brooker penned an insightful article that offers a valuable historical context of the Internet's development told through concerned eyes of World Wide Web creator. Resting on a common conviction that every revolution needs a leader, her article puts a face to the growing dissatisfaction with the way the Internet is being managed. <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Creator%20Of%20The%20World%20Wide%20W…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.facebook.com?p=eyJzIjoidW0…> <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/creator-of-the-world-wide…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiVENLTFl…> Source: Katrina Brooker | vanityfair.com on | Language: EN "I Was Devastated": The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets Read article <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiVENLTFl…> Your newsletter Not enough information in your newsletter? Don't receive it often enough? Not enough to read? change now <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiRklMcjR…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/twitter.com?p=eyJzIjoiWmpzTGR3…> <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.facebook.com?p=eyJzIjoiWU8…> piqd GmbH | Widenmayerstr. 38 | 80538 Munich <https://maps.google.com/?q=Widenmayerstr.+38+%7C+80538+Munich&entry=gmail&s…> Tel.: +49 (0) 8152 99 86 564 | Fax:+49 (0) 8152 9986571 | Email: contact(a)piqd.com Managing director: Marcus von Jordan | Seat and court of jurisdiction: Munich HRB 217337 Tax number: 143/134/81256 | VAT numer: DE 300221320 Imprint <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiOENVWU1…> | Privacy <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiUTVha2N…> | Unsubscibe <https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30835283/www.piqd.com?p=eyJzIjoiRGJXQk9…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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