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Fwd: EXTENSION of DEADLINE of the CFP for a special issue of APCE on COMMONS until FEBRUARY 10, 2020
by Michel Bauwens 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ciriec - Christine Dussart <christine.dussart(a)uliege.be> Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:38 PM Subject: TR: EXTENSION of DEADLINE of the CFP for a special issue of APCE on COMMONS until FEBRUARY 10, 2020 To: [image: cid:[email protected]][image: cid:[email protected]] Dear Colleagues We are pleased to inform that the Call for Papers for a special issue of our international journal on the theme « The contribution of the Commons to open and shared access to productive ressources and essential goods and services » is open until FEBRUARY 10, 2020. Please do not hesitate to submit if these topics coincide with your current fields of interest/work. We would also be grateful if you could help us to disseminate this CFP among your circles. Sincerely Christine Dussart, Editorial assistant *Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics* <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8292> *CIRIEC **www.ciriec.ulg.ac.be* <http://www.ciriec.ulg.ac.be/> -- 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: Radical Pessimism plus Utopian Action Plan
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Daniel Pinchbeck <daniel(a)pinchbeck.io> Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 9:44 PM Subject: Radical Pessimism plus Utopian Action Plan To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> What do we do now? What do we do now? Radical Pessimism Plus Utopian Action Plan In my new book, *2012 Revisited*, I try to face our situation honestly. To do this, I had to reconsider many of the esoteric ideas I wrote about in *2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl* <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…>(2006) These included ideas from Terence McKenna, Jose Arguelles, Graham Hancock, and so on. Back then, I fully acknowledged the threat of ecological catastrophe. Yet I hoped humanity would rally to embrace indigenous design principles. I thought we would see a global movement to prevent the worst outcomes and launch an antidote to hyper-consumerism. I held out hopes for the tech community — a younger echelon of wealth holders who made their fortunes connecting the world via virtual networks. Some of them explore their consciousness through ayahuasca and so on. I thought they might use their genius to re-organize society around a regenerative model. Instead, most of them embraced the Singularity ideology of Ray Kurzweil, along with self-serving Libertarian or Neoliberal political views. When I wrote *2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl* <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…>, I was already concerned about the evangelical desire to accelerate Apocalypse. Now things are far worse. It turns out a huge contingent of self-righteous maniacs believe that Trump was sent by God to accelerate the "end of the world." As Newsweek reports <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…>, "Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe he'll cause the world to end." That is a tough position to reason with. I still hold out faint hopes for a psychic transmutation that might change the world in some fundamental, quantum-leap kind of a way. For the documentary *2012: Time for Change* <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…>, we interviewed visionaries like the late Barbara Marx Hubbard who promoted "conscious evolution" and psychic researcher Dean Radin, who instigated the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University. However in *2012 Revisited*, I also take seriously the counter-proposal of Julius Evola, who thought we are simply descending deeper into Kali Yuga, the dark age ending with total destruction. He sees this as an inevitable cylical process which all authentic esoteric traditions recognized. There will be a "Golden Age" again — but outside of historical time as we currently experience it. Evola is a complex figure who has been picked up by the Far Right, but that doesn't make him wrong. In my new book, I consider what happens to us if we think human extinction is possible, or even probable, soon. Once past the stages of bargaining and despair, it can be strangely liberating. It still leaves us with the question of how to use our time and resources now. Tenderness, gentleness, and love are probably great ideas. Also, perhaps the over-arching menace can inspire us to seek "enlightenment" or "realization" or "liberation," as the esoteric traditions define it, in an accelerated and disciplined way. That seems worth a shot in any case. Given the severity of the situation, we may as well explore the mystery of consciousness and existence to its ultimate depths. Of course I am still on board to be part of any legitimate, last-minute effort to "save the world." I have many plans, theories, and strategies ready for marshaling a counter-movement to transform our current system and salvage our planet from the destructive forces of imperialism, Capitalism, neo-Fascism, Fundamentalism, etcetera. My 2017 book, *How Soon Is Now <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…>*, put together an action plan. The Regenerative Societies Wiki <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> offers a systemic approach. Here is one example of a potentially world-saving idea: As Newsweek notes: "Jerusalem has a central role as the city of prophecy and the place where the end of times plays out. According to the prophecy, a 1,000-year period of peace must be followed by seven years of tribulation, during which wars, disease, and natural disasters will lay waste to the earth. In the book of Revelation, Israel is described as a nation that exists during the time of tribulation, and Jerusalem's Jewish temple is resurrected during this period. The last temple was destroyed around 70 A.D, and today there is a mosque on the Temple Mount where the previous two temples are believed to have stood. Evangelicals believe that a unified Israel with control over Jerusalem will facilitate the construction of a new Jewish temple, and set the groundwork for the end of times." We could satisfy the prophecies and rebuild the Temple on the Mount in a peaceful way, by projecting a hologram of the Temple of Solomon on the current mosque, rather than having violent conflict around it. Perhaps I will propose some other ideas in future newsletters, in case anyone is listening. Get the new book <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> The Occult Control System Are "aliens" interfering with us and perhaps manipulating our timelines?This short book considers ETs and UFOs from an occult and metaphysical viewpoint. Buy it here <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> When Plants Dream This book is an overview of ayahuasca, considering all aspects of this amazing visionary medicine. I wrote it with Sophia Rokhlin, an anthropologist. Buy it here <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> [image: Facebook] <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> [image: Twitter] <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> [image: Link] <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> [image: Website] <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> *Copyright © 2020, All rights reserved.* Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Fwd: The Year in Platform Cooperatives
by Michel Bauwens 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School < info(a)platform.coop> Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:09 AM Subject: The Year in Platform Cooperatives To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> A newsletter about the Cooperative Digital Economy [image: Cooperatives, Digitally: A Newsletter by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium] *January 06, 2020* *by Trebor Scholz* *The Year in Platform Cooperatives* With this Year in Review, we inaugurate a periodic newsletter updating you on the cooperative digital economy. We’ll share practical and theoretical insights situated in their political contexts -- from research papers, news articles, and podcasts, to emerging projects, events, and job opportunities. This has been a significant year for the cooperative digital economy. In this age of pessimism, we need bold near-term alternatives such as digital cooperatives that build a more democratic future with shared prosperity. Newcomers to this community might not know much about *“platform cooperatives <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>.”* They are businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell goods or services. Platform co-ops rely on democratic decision-making and shared ownership of the platform by workers and users. The newsletter is published by the *Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>* at The New School in NYC. We are a hub that helps you research, start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops. The PCC works with hundreds of platform co-op businesses with tens of thousands of worker-owners around the world. Whether you are reading this in the Bay Area (US), Kerala (India), Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Catalonia (Spain), or elsewhere, write us with news and updates in your language at: *info(a)platform.coop <info(a)platform.coop>* All the best for the year ahead, Trebor Scholz & the PCC *Ecosystem Updates * Start.coop launched its inaugural cohort <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> of cooperatives in 2019 and is now accepting applications for its 2020 crew. Check out their work and consider applying <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ! Several new platform co-ops emerged in the past several months. Explore more about their work below: - SignCo.io <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> in the UK offers health interpreting services for Deaf people - Beceer <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> in Indonesia is a co-operative vegetable delivery service - FoodFairies <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> in Berlin offers cooperative food-delivery services - Kolymar-2 <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> is a new food delivery service also in Berlin - Mensakas <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> is a unionized platform co-op of delivery and messaging workers in Barcelona Also check out this blog on at KU Leuven <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> focused on the platform economy. Learn more about the YouTubers Union <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>, which gets support from Europe’s biggest industrial Union, IG Metall. Don’t miss Leo Sammallahti’s tweets on co-op facts at Co-op Exchange <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . At least two events deserve your attention, too. In October 2019 at Utrecht University, NL, Damion Bunders convened a "Young Scholars Workshop on Platformcoops ‘Governing the platform: Self-help, mutual aid, and cooperativism <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> " Smart, in partnership with Saw-B and Febecoop, convened "Platform COOP Brussels <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ," supported by the Brussels-Capital Region. Beyond these events, Ampled, an ethical web platform for music artists became a cooperative. Read more <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . New School professor and opera composer Stefania de Kenessey composed an anthem for the platform cooperativism movement. Listen to it here <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . Write to us with your new projects to be featured in our next newsletter! info(a)platform.coop *Updates from the PCC* In 2019, we launched the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School with an inaugural cohort of Research Fellows. Read about our Institute <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> and watch highlights from our April 2019 launch event <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>. Learn more about the research topics <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> of our Fellows. Their full-length reports will be published on our website in spring 2020. In addition to Research Fellows, we also formed a Council of Advisors <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> to guide our work. *Who Owns the World? PCC Conference* In November 2019, the PCC brought together 150 speakers from 30 countries, with more than 700 participants and thousands of viewers of the livestream! The event was supported by the PCC Circle of Cooperators, Open Society Foundations, and the Ford Foundation. You can find photo documentation and video archive of the event on our conference site <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>. We added links to the video documentation in the program <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>. You can also download most slideshows and presentations by clicking on the hyperlink to the File Swap folder within each session <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>. You can also watch a series of short video interviews with 39 participants here <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . You can also relive <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> our Friday night keynote conversation between Wilma Liebman and Anand Giridharadas. This really was our most extraordinary gathering, with video contributions from NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives, J. Phillip Thompson <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . Senator Gillibrand noted: “I was proud that my Main Street Employee Ownership Act was passed into law last year. It reforms the Small Business Administration to help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers, consumers, and farmers. That includes co-ops, which have for too long struggled to access this very important federal assistance. I want to extend my gratitude to the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School for all their efforts and pulling together today's event, and then leading the research that is driving new innovation in the cooperative sector.” *The Platform Co-op Development Kit* The Platform Co-op Development Kit continues to evolve and move forward as a collaboration with the Inclusive Design Research Centre. The Kit is supported by a grant from Google.org. The work ahead focuses on building an online resource library hosted on our revamped platform.coop <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> website, and developing first iterations of share infrastructure for platform co-ops. Check out the project’s Fluid Project Wiki page <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> online to read up on what’s next! And consider getting involved with our mapping project, to survey the global movement of digital co-ops! Reach out to Travis Higgins, Survey Project Lead, for how to take our short survey by writing to him at: platformcoop(a)newschool.edu. And check out the richly detailed blog post <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> from the coopathon we hosted on mapping, facilitated by Danny Spitzberg. Community Hangouts from this past year included talks with Namya Mahajan on the SEWA Model, Greg Brodsky and Stephen Gill on Financing Platform Co-ops, Jack Qiu and Gigi Lo on Platform Co-ops in Hong Kong, Jutta Treviranus and Colin Clark on the co-design approach for tech development, and several others! See highlights on our blog page <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . *PCC Out in the World* In 2019, additional meetings and travels by the PCC have bolstered platform co-ops globally. Meetings and collaborations from 2019 included: - A workshop at The New School with immigrant worker advocates <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . - Trebor Scholz met with the President of Sewa, Mirai Chatterjee, discussing future collaborations. Sewa Federation brings together some 300,000 working-class women in the informal economy in India. Sewa is also a union with 1.7 million members. - Interviews at the Brazil Congress of Cooperatives <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> in Brasilia, Brazil. - Trebor presented to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala, India. - A discussion of our research with Kerala’s Finance Minister Thomas Isaac. - Trebor met with the President of Japanese Trade Unions, Mr. Koga and with Prof. Mizukoshi at Tokyo University <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>, Akiko Taguchi, Director of the ILO in Japan, her colleagues, and Osamu Nakamo of Worker Co-ops Japan <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . - Trebor met with the leader of the Preston City Council Matthew Brown to integrate platform co-ops into the “Preston model” in the UK. - We continued exchanges with Dieter Janaschek, a Green Party member of the German Parliament and specifically, the Committee on the Digital Agenda. - In South Africa, Trebor met with leaders Omar Parker, of the National Union of Public Service & Allied Workers (NUPSAW); Myrtle Wittboi, General Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union; Gloria Kente, of WC SADSAWU, and Professor Darcy Du Toit & his research team at University of Western Cape. *Ongoing Research on Platform Co-ops* The PCC has continued its on-going research projects exploring the potential for platform co-ops in India, funded through an Open Society Foundation grant, with additional explorations focused on the potential for platform co-ops in South Africa, Brazil. *Books* Writer Anand Giridharadas wrote about platform co-ops recently: “If it is so easy to build platforms these days … why couldn’t workers and customers create their own platforms? Scholz [has] embarked on a global adventure to locate and study various attempts to do just this. The idea lived already … Here was a rarity: a no-strings-attached idea for actually changing the world.” “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- Book by Anand Giridharadas Keith Spencer's recent book follows the history of people exploited by or made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the present day. “A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- Book by Keith A. Spencer *Articles & Blog Essays* The New York Times shockingly revealed that Big Tech “lost its way” in the past decade. Their report chronicles the growth of various tech companies and their effects on our elections, privacy, and health. "The Decade Tech Lost Its Way" <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> - The New York Times Ryan Hayes at Vice wrote this piece inspired by our Who Owns the World? conference. “Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy’s Exploitation” <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- Vice News Read Rafael A. F. Zanatta's reflections on the event in Portuguese here: "Nem todo Uber é capitalista - Outras Palavras <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> " -- Outras Palavras The Guardian recently reported that London’s transport regulator canceled Uber’s license, showing the need for a taxi app owned by drivers. "Uber’s London woes show the need for a taxi app owned by drivers" <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- The Guardian Our friends at Shareable published a piece showing us how the failures of Pacific Gas and Electric Company are spurring a movement toward electric cooperatives. “Power for the People: How PG&E’s failures are spurring a movement toward electric cooperatives” <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- Shareable Coop News’ Miles Hadfield <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> joined our conference in November. Here is his coverage of the 3-day event: “Fire the bosses: Platform co-ops set out their radical stall” <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- TheNews.coop After many years of hard work, the Fairbnb.coop website launched!! "Fairbnbcoop holiday rental website launches <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ." -- The Guardian Writing about apps-based drivers, legal scholar Hiba Hafiz explores the links between innovative unions, and worker co-ops. "How Drivers Can Beat Uber at Its Own Game <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>" --The New York Times Nathan Schneider and Sandeep Vaheesan demonstrate how workers and small businesses need to join forces against corporate power. “There’s More Than One Way to Fight a Monopoly <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from The Atlantic As we are working with cooperatives in India, we are deeply concerned about our brothers and sisters in that country where Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. "Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India" <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- The New Yorker Equally heartbreaking is the news from Hong Kong. The very campus where we convened our 2018 global conference was turned into a battleground between protesters and police. "How Universities Became the New Battlegrounds in the Hong Kong Protests" <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- The New York Times *Reports & Manifestos* PCC friend Francesca Bria, former CTO of Barcelona, published a widely celebrated report <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> about her work as Barcelona City Council Commissioner for Digital Technology and Innovation. Her report develops a vision for cities worldwide to adopt “ethical, open, and responsible innovation, moving towards technological sovereignty.” In Paris (France), Coop des Communs convened a "Forum of plateformes cooperatives. <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>" The group issued a declaration <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>. In Spain, Stacco Trancoso published the DisCO Manifesto <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>, a deep dive into the worlds of blockchain, commons, cooperatives, AI, feminism, and economics. Co-operatives UK and the Nesta Foundation published “Platform Co-operatives – Solving the Capital Conundrum.” <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> Authored by Simon Borkin, the report is a concise introduction to platform co-ops and the British Community Shares Model of capitalization. Platform co-ops struggle to attract much-needed funding but this report outlines pathways for solving the problem. *Papers* Anna Burnicka and Jan J. Zygmuntowski are exploring the potential of platform co-ops in Europe and specifically in Poland. They write that "The investment potential of platform cooperatives in Europe is significant, as can be seen from the estimation model. There is nearly €1.3 billion of financial resources that could be allocated to such entities annually. In Poland, this potential amounts to 47.7 million PLN." “#CoopTech: Platform Cooperativism as the Engine of Solidarity Growth” <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> -- from Instrat and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Marisol Sandoval explores the platform co-op movement, arguing that it is shaped “by tensions and contradictions between politics and enterprise, democracy and the market, commons and commercialisation, activism and entrepreneurship.” “Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from the Journal of Critical Sociology Massimiliano Nicoli and Luca Paltrinieri rethink ownership of the firm using “the philosophy of the commons.” “Platform Cooperativism: Some Notes on the Becoming “Common” of the Firm <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from South Atlantic Quarterly An international group of researchers authored this paper bringing together researchers from different Human-Computer Interaction sub-communities to “identify future research directions in HCI around cooperativism and platforms.” “Cooperativism and Human-Computer Interaction <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems PCC friend Ricard Espelt studied numerous case studies in Barcelona to build a framework for assessing the pro-democratic qualities of platform economy initiatives, taking into account governance, economic models, technological and knowledge policies, and social responsibility and impact. “A Framework to Assess the Sustainability and the ProDemocratization of Platform Economy: The Case of Barcelona <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from UNTFSSE Haifa-based researcher Yifat Solel recently wrote that “Platforms create opportunities to enhance users’ democratic involvement in different aspects of their economic and social life. The technology allows direct and long distant participation and thus can help develop — perhaps for the first time in such magnitude and scale — a democratic economy.” “If Uber were a Cooperative: A Democratically Biased Analysis of Platform Economy <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> ” -- from The Law & Ethics of Human Rights Ronja Puranen from the Aalto University School of Business compares the business models of platform cooperatives versus investor-owned sharing economy platforms. “Comparing the business models of platform cooperatives and investor-owned sharing economy platforms <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…>” -- from the Aalto University School of Business *Scholars, take note: *The Brazilian Conference on Digital Labor is making a call for papers. The deadline is February 3, 2020. More info here: https://digilabour.com.br/brazilian-conference-on-digital-labor/ <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> *What's Next in 2020?* *Global Conference in Berlin* Mark your calendar for our 2020 global platform co-op conference to be held in Berlin in November. An informal organizing committee is already taking shape -- do let us know if you would like to be involved! So far, several Berlin groups have taken the lead in putting together the conference, in collaboration with the Platform Cooperativism Consortium here in New York City. These Berlin-based groups are: - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> (Berlin Social Science Center) - Weizenbaum Institute <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> - Institute for Ecological Economy Research <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> *A Course on the Cooperative Digital Economy* In Spring 2020, Prof. Trebor Scholz will teach the first university course on Platform Cooperativism <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> at The New School. Guest speakers from across disciplines will join Prof. Scholz. Course materials will be eventually organized into an online course available on platform.coop <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> as part of the Platform Co-op Development Kit. Write to us if you’d like to form a local learning group. info(a)platform.coop *Writing for the PCC* Throughout 2020, we will be publishing short, public-facing articles on Public Seminar <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> focused on the themes of a democratic internet and the cooperative digital economy. Let us know if you are interested in contributing a short article, written for the general public on these issues. Public Seminar is a great venue to promote emerging ideas in support of platform cooperativism. *Summer Course in Italy* This July 2020, Trebor will teach at the Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory focused on “Theory, Technology and the Political Imagination” at The University of Bologna, Italy. Consider applying for participation <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . *Jobs at the PCC* We are building an online resource library of texts, books, articles, and other media that address issues in the cooperative digital economy. We need someone with experience and interest in archiving and libraries to help us catalog and organize resources. Please get in touch if you would like to work with us at the PCC for a few months on this project. *Support Our Work* The Platform Co-op Consortium is a grassroots organization, dependent on the contributions of individuals and organizations who believe in fighting for a democratic, cooperative Internet. Consider supporting our work by joining our Circle of Cooperators <https://platform.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f638bbafd5bc768b7aa06be…> . Your contributions make our work possible. Email us at info(a)platform.coop. 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If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: ICAPE Conference Program, Final Version
by Michel Bauwens 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: r kanth <involutegandhian(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:16 AM Subject: ICAPE Conference Program, Final Version To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Geoff Schneider <gschnedr(a)bucknell.edu> Date: Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 6:48 PM Subject: ICAPE Conference Program, Final Version To: Geoff.Schneider(a)Bucknell.edu <Geoff.Schneider(a)bucknell.edu> Dear ICAPE conference participants, Attached, please find the final version of the ICAPE conference program, including room assignments. I look forward to seeing you in San Diego! Happy new year, Geoff Geoff Schneider <Geoff.Schneider(a)bucknell.edu> Presidential Professor and Co-Chair of Economics at Bucknell University Executive Director, ICAPE <http://www.icape.org/> Office: 128 Academic West Phone: 570-577-1666 Mailing Address: 1 Dent Drive, Lewisburg, PA 17837 Microeconomic Principles and Problems (2019) <https://www.routledge.com/Microeconomic-Principles-and-Problems-A-Pluralist…> Evolution of Economic Ideas and Systems (2018) <https://www.routledge.com/The-Evolution-of-Economic-Ideas-and-Systems-A-Plu…> -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: EPOG+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree - Happy new year!
by Michel Bauwens 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: EPOG - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree <news(a)epog.eu> Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:39 AM Subject: EPOG+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree - Happy new year! To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> View in browser <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/4qOJQ0bKN2L-cyDQrnHFsywO7GP4CFWRvUuSP…> [image: Université de Technologie de Compiègne] <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/WCnp_E9qsO7NHMpJzRD4YZDG93xzxaT-Ewy…> *EPOG+ - Economic POlicies for the Global transition* Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree *Happy new year!* *The EPOG <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/mfFpkLQ43sH8Rtfwtq9uGdvlEnCA_N39KZL…> team wishes you a happy new year!* The year 2020 will be the year of the *first intake for the EPOG+ Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/-ZAQqIFE1caJASW0ET61bRSpGmmsR3e-fid…>*. The new period of funding by the European Commission, with *around 20 scholarships each year* will be a great chance to develop further the programme and create several partnerships in different countries of the world. Various projects are on the way and you will be informed in the next months about the work in progress! The year 2020 will also be the opportunity to *develop our cooperation with EPOG 2 <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/pir4fEImwuY8QfAs_iIT3P2jrSpd-9R6bC0…>* (an international Master's programme launched in 2018) with the aim of promoting pluralism in economics. This cooperation will start with a joint selection process (see reminder below). Both EPOG+ and EPOG 2 are renewed versions of the well-known EPOG (Economic POlicies in the age of Globalisation) Master's programme, created in 2013. *A summary of the differences between EPOG+ and EPOG 2 is available here <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/nb_yz-k12xw395s3Yls-lyv9zXCz6xpz-rA…>.* *Reminder - Call for applications* *Economic POlicies for the Global transition (EPOG+) <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/OpIRs5y05HLYc4a8Xax_QLA9rr5VSSx_Dib…>* is an *Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree* in economics, supported by the European Union. It offers a world-class integrated Master's programme *on the (digital, socioeconomic, ecological) transition processes* with a pluralist approach and interdisciplinary perspectives. The main objective of the programme is to give birth to a new generation of international experts, able to define and assess economic policies and evolve within different political, social and regional contexts. Towards this objective the EPOG+ Master’s programme goes beyond the reach of standard economic theory to include various heterodox/institutionnalist approaches. The full partners (degree awarding institutions) include *a wide set of prestigous institutions*: - University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), - Sorbonne University, - University of Paris, - University of Turin, - Berlin School of Economics and Law, - University of Roma 3, - Vienna University of Economics and Business, - University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). It also involves *more than 30 (academic and non-academic) associated partners in Europe and the world*. *Scholarships* The very best students from all over the world will be eligible for *scholarships awarded for 2 years* by the European Commission, based on our selection: - The *« Programme countries » scholarships* for students from Member States of the European Union (EU) as well as former Yugoslav, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey; - The *« Partner countries » scholarships* for students from all the other countries. More details here <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/R8oF390XIUWhMfDi4mcvZfwZDqPy6wux_4B…> . *When to apply?* *Application deadline: January 30, 2020 - 14:00 (Paris time).* Note that two recommendation letters are needed to apply and have to be provided by the deadline. The course will start in September 2020. *More information* www.epog.eu <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/EmbAL4qcqVRd9nyEQ2SUyTmIgtmIhbawzYb…> *The selection will be organised jointly with the EPOG 2.0 <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4wNZubf87_85zP2OOEkmoMce5GUMtr0xtH4…> programme.* *APPLY* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/D-b3t2LE0CxFl6fdfMFO91FtUXQ9-t29WPr…> *Save the date* *Friends of EPOG - LAUNCHING EVENT - PARIS* The “Friends of EPOG / Amis d’EPOG” is a non-profit organisation which aims to support the EPOG programme. It includes individuals and organisations from the academic and non-academic worlds. An event for launching the association will be organised in Paris at the *historical building of La Sorbonne on March 10, 2020 (from 18:00 to 22:00)*. Even though the number of places is limited, the alumni are particularly welcomed. Please save the date! *EPOG Master's conference - BERLIN* The 2020 EPOG Master's conference, gathering both EPOG+ and EPOG 2 partners, the EPOG 2 students, the EPOG alumni and invited speakers will be held *in Berlin on June 18-21* with a possible spillover on June 17 and/or 22 in order to organise visits and/or enjoy the "fête de la musique in Berlin"... The details have still to be set but already save the dates! *Policy brief - Call for proposals* The *Policy brief* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/QVrGZ8LF3ePw0lMZAfPBtwhYHBMIGWekrIY…> series aims to enrich the public debate with reflections developed in the field of research and in the non-academic world. They are short (4 pages) and rigorous (an editorial board is in charge of reviewing the proposals). They benefit from a large dissemination (academic and non-academic worlds, including journalists, policy makers...). They are primarily written by *EPOG <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Q3pJ_EABKgVQLAuozwbrkbF4NK5Pb5e-lhU…> graduates* but may also be *"invited policy briefs" wittren by guests*. *All EPOG students and graduates are invited *to propose a "Policy brief" or suggest guests for "invited Policy briefs", by sending a message to proposal.policybriefs (at) epog.eu <proposal.policybriefs(a)epog.eu?subject=EPOG%20Policy%20brief%20proposal>. *List of the previous Policy briefs* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/78NxYP7vhfjECTJqoHS8jFdulpoWCq6_Wfu…> *Policy brief #6* *The last PB was on Brexit. More topical than ever...* *No-Deal Brexit: Trick or Treat(y) Uncertainty and the Future of the UK Economy* by Louis Daumas (EPOG 2019) Despite the recently struck agreement between the UK and the EU, the prospect of a No-Deal Brexit remains tangible due to the demand for an unkempth postponement on the part of the British Parliament. Although the question of the consequences of such a shock has given birth to a lengthy literature, little attention has been paid to its financial aspects. This policy brief aims at clarifying the debate by tackling these considerations, while drawing some policy recommendations. *View the Policy brief* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FTTm2FRRJojsFaoLW8Kc5QUPkie-9Bdn71t…> *Call for papers - Workshop - International capital flows (OECD, Paris, April 22, 2020)* Alessandra Celani de Macedo (EPOG 2016) is sharing this call for proposal which may offer an interesting space for discussing topics related to: - Going beyond traditional statistics for mapping of capital flows; - The changing composition of flows: the shift away from banks to non-banks; - Surges, stops and “normals” for capital flows. The workshop is organised jointly by the Bank of England, the Banque de France, the IMF and the OECD. It will be held at the OECD headquarters in Paris on 22 April 2020. *Full papers should be sent* by February 1 2020 (email <internationalcapitalflows_workshop(a)oecd.org>). *Call for proposal* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/gUg2Ra7lbE9uyYtxGPomMxHtlcggig5_iPA…> *EMA (Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association)* The EMA (Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association) <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hzi0cu3KBjfC7wqMikQCDsg_TUsZozBF_md…> is a volunteer organization founded in 2006 by the initiative of the Directorate General for Culture and Education of the European Commission. EMA reaches out to over 14,000 students and alumni members from 170+ countries. EPOG+ will become a Member of the EMA and all the EPOG students and EPOG graduates who were part of the 2-year programme are invited to register (freely). *We are looking for an EPOG graduate who would accept to be a representative of the EPOG programme within the EMA*. If you are a volunteer, please let us know! *More details on EMA* <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/uvqNVkNvnYduWqpio-m4FrHEDwz8AebtmKJ…> *Postdoctoral position for 12 months* *Title*: *Analysis of productivity’s evolution and technological diffusion of digital manufacturing* *Postdoctoral position for 12 months *(with possibility of renewal for 2 more years depending on funding) within the RENIR project <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/mgWjgbO22Jok4K3B-U8gmzA9KsiicvD5CK-…> coordinated by Professor Aldo Geuna. <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ickyvGe9UrwwtXaxhtqoatGPYnTijNN7lWj…> *Short description:* The Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis with the collaboration of the Collegio Carlo Alberto <http://4751f.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VLhrWCjBG5Yj9d7vbAEeC1Vcp0IoXuECGuG…> is opening a 12 months postdoc position within the RENIR project. Depending on ongoing application for future funding, the position can be renewed for up to 2 more years. The postdoctoral fellow will work with Professor Aldo Geuna on the analysis of the impact of digital manufacturing on company productivity. Particular attention will be devoted to the analysis of technological diffusion and to the role of international, national and regional policies in supporting ongoing economic transformation. Candidates should have completed a Phd in economics, innovation studies, economic geography, political science, sociology (or being near to completion with a defence date set) and be fluent in English (Italian not required).For information: contact Professor Aldo Geuna <aldo.geuna(a)unito.it?subject=Post-doctoral%20position>.Interested applicants should send to Prof. Aldo Geuna a recent CV and a statement of Research Interest. *Les Festives de Sorbonne Université* Sorbonne University launches the festival called "Les Festives". The festival is an invitation for all audiences to meet the communities of the Sorbonne University Alliance and its partners in the 4EU+ European Alliance. For its first edition, the festival has chosen as its guiding principle: "Imagine the future". 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Fwd: Philippe Honigman mentioned you in a post
by Michel Bauwens 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LinkedIn <messages-noreply(a)linkedin.com> Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 8:19 PM Subject: Philippe Honigman mentioned you in a post To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Philippe Honigman mentioned you in a post [image: LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/feed/?midToken=AQHngZYzpKhG6w&trk=eml-email_n…> Michel Bauwens [image: Michel Bauwens] <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/in/mbauwens?midToken=AQHngZYzpKhG6w&trk=eml-e…> [image: View Philippe Honigman’s profile] <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/in/honigman?midToken=AQHngZYzpKhG6w&trk=eml-e…> Philippe Honigman <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/in/honigman?midToken=AQHngZYzpKhG6w&trk=eml-e…> *mentioned you in a post* “Peeristes de tous les pays, fréquentez-vous... au Paris P2P Festival, du 8 au 12 janvier ! #p2pfestival #parisp2p...” Peeristes de tous les pays, fréquentez-vous ! <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A66163161650…> Join the conversation <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A66163161650…> Get the LinkedIn app. Stay updated wherever you are Download for free <https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2?e=16n8h-k4o6nci5-w9&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aem…> Unsubscribe <https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2?e=16n8h-k4o6nci5-w9&t=lun&midToken=AQHngZYzpK…> | Help <https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2?e=16n8h-k4o6nci5-w9&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aem…> You are receiving LinkedIn notification emails. This email was intended for Michel Bauwens (Member of the P2P Cooperative). Learn why we included this. <https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2?e=16n8h-k4o6nci5-w9&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aem…> [image: LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/feed/?midToken=AQHngZYzpKhG6w&trk=eml-email_n…> © 2019 LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2. LinkedIn is a registered business name of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company. LinkedIn and the LinkedIn logo are registered trademarks of LinkedIn. -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: Rising to the occasion
by Michel Bauwens 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <douglas(a)rushkoff.com> Date: Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 9:34 PM Subject: Rising to the occasion To: <rushkoff(a)simplelists.com> Happy New Year! I just published a big essay in The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/decade-technology-pri…> about the last decade in tech, and how most critique are still looking at devices, platforms, business plans or even tech CEOs instead of the digital environment in which we’re all trying to function. I’ve pasted it below, but you can see it in its art directed glory here <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/decade-technology-pri…> . Also, a new talk I did in Waterloo, Canada, recorded and posted in its entirety on CBC radio here. <https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/get-thee-behind-me-tech-putting-humans-befor…> They called it "Get thee behind me, tech: putting humans before social media,” which I kind of like. Meanwhile, I’ve started serializing the entirety of Team Human on Medium <http://medium.com/team-human>, one section a week for the next hundred weeks. They’re hoping to get the podcast and my Medium columns posted on that page, too. For now, you can find my Medium columns individually, like this one about Was Humanity Simply Not Ready for the Internet? <https://medium.com/team-human/was-humanity-simply-not-ready-for-the-interne…> And you can hear the podcast at http://teamhuman.fm <http://teamhuman.fm> I’m looking forward to some great projects in 2020 and beyond - a documentary series, a possible TV show, and even some theater. All hopefully aimed at promoting a positive human future. I’ll keep you posted. Take care, and please take time to engage with other people. Eye contact, skin contact, or just the occasional hug are both nourishment and gateways to the meaning of life. Conspiracy means breathing together. - D *We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control* We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand that our digital technologies are not always bringing out our best natures. People woke up to the fact that our digital platforms are being coded by people who don’t have our best interests at heart. This is the decade when, finally, the “tech backlash” began. But it’s a little late. Shoshana Zuboff recently published her comprehensive Surveillance Capitalism to deserved acclaim, but the book is really about some decisions that Google was making twenty years ago to harvest our data and sell it to advertisers. The Center for Humane Technology has called attention to the way that the manipulative techniques of behavioral finance have been embedded in our apps – bringing us all up to speed on the science of captology and addiction, circa 1999. These are necessary critiques, but they’re too focused on the good old days, when the business plans of a few bad actors and the designs of some manipulative technologies could be identified as the “cause” of our collective woes. That’s really only half, or less than half, of the story. It’s blaming the developers, the CEOs, the shareholders, even individual apps, programs and platforms for our predicament, when most of these players have either long since left the building, or are themselves oblivious to their impact on our collective wellbeing. Just because the public is finally ready to hear about these tech industry shenanigans doesn’t mean they are still relevant. We can’t even blame capitalism, anymore. The quest for exponential returns may have fueled the development of extractive and addictive technologies, but the cultural phenomena they gave birth to now have a life of their own. What this decade’s critiques miss is that over the past 10 years, our tech has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function. We don’t “go online” by turning on a computer and dialing up through a modem; we live online 24/7, creating data as we move through our lives, accessible to everyone and everything. Our smartphones are not devices that sit in our pockets; they create new worlds with new rules about our availability, intimacies, appearance and privacy. Apple, Twitter and Google are not just technology services we use, but staples in our retirement portfolios, on whose continued success our financial futures depend. At this point, the digital environment is no more the result of a series of choices made by technology developers, as it is the underlying cause of those choices. What happened to us in the 2010s wasn’t just that we were being surveilled, but that all that data was being used to customize everything we saw and did online. We were being shaped into who the data said we were. The net you see and the one I see are different. Your Google search results are different than mine, your news feeds are different and your picture of the world is different. As the decade began and social media took over society, many people tried to call attention to digital technology’s more environmental effects. In Programmed or Be Programmed, I argued that we have to understand the platforms on which we’re working and living, or we’re more likely to be used by technology than to be the users controlling it. But those of us arguing for new media literacies may have been making our case a bit too literally‘The digital environment is no more the result of a series of choices made by technology developers, as it is the underlying cause of those choices.’ Photograph: Peter Howell/Getty Images/iStockphoto The people and organizations responding to our plea launched the “learn to code” movement. Schools initiated Stem curriculums, and kids learned code in order to prepare themselves for jobs in the digital economy. It was as if the answer to a world where the most powerful entities speak in code was to learn code, ourselves, and then look for employment servicing the machines. If you can’t beat them, join them. But that wasn’t the point. Or shouldn’t have been. What we really needed this decade was to learn code as a liberal art – not so much as software engineers, but as human beings living in a new sort of environment. It’s an environment that remembers and records everything we have done online, every data point we leave in our wake, in order to adapt itself to our individual predilections – all in order to generate whatever responses or behaviors the platforms want from us. The digital media environment uses what it knows about each of our pasts to direct each one of our futures. We can no longer come to agreement on what we’re seeing, because we’re looking at different pictures of the world. It’s not just that we have different perspectives on the same events and stories; we’re being shown fundamentally different realities, by algorithms looking to trigger our engagement by any means necessary. The more conflicting the ideas and imagery to which are exposed, the more likely we are to fight over whose is real and whose is fake. We are living in increasingly different and irreconcilable worlds. We have no chance of making sense together. The only thing we have in common is our mutual disorientation and alienation. We’ve spent the last 10 years as participants in a feedback loop between surveillance technology, predictive algorithms, behavioral manipulation and human activity. And it has spun out of anyone’s control. ‘Russian bots, meme campaigns and Cambridge Analytica’ This is a tough landscape for anyone to navigate coherently. We may be benefiting from the internet’s ability to help us find others with whom we share rare diseases, hobbies, or beliefs, but this sorting and grouping is abstract and over great distances. We are not connecting with people in the real world, but gathered by our eyeballs in disembodied virtual spaces, without the benefit of any of our painstakingly evolved social mechanisms for moderation, rapport, or empathy. The digital media environment is a space that is configuring itself in real time based on how the algorithms think we will react. They are sorting us into caricatured, machine-language oversimplifications of ourselves. This is why we saw so much extremism emerge over the past decade. We are increasingly encouraged to identify ourselves by our algorithmically determined ideological profiles alone, and to accept a platform’s arbitrary, profit-driven segmentation as a reflection of our deepest, tribal affiliations. Since 2016, we have summoned demons to embody and represent these artificially generated worldviews – Russian bots and meme campaigns and Cambridge Analytica. But though these may have amplified and accelerated the effect of the digital environment, that environment would have generated standing waves of cultural angst in primary colors no matter what. Then, all it takes is an ideologue or ideology to jump in and claim that standing wave as their own. Trump is not the originator of his demagoguery so much as the vessel. Ideologically speaking, he’s less a tweeter than a re-tweeter. Likewise, Brexit is not a policy design for an independent England so much as a projection of one group’s collective angst. And these are not even the most monstrous of the phantoms we are generating. ‘We’ve surrendered to digital platforms that look at human individuality as noise to be corrected, rather than signal to be cherished.’ Photograph: Peter Howell/Getty Images/iStockphoto Incapable of recreating a consensus reality together through digital media, we are trying to conjure a television-style hallucination. Television was a global medium, broadcasting universally shared realities to a world of spectators. The Olympics, moon landings and the felling of the Berlin Wall were all globally broadcast, collective spectacles. We all occupied the same dream space, which is why globalism characterized that age. But now we are resurrecting obsolete visions of nationalism, false memories of a glorious past, and the anything-goes values of reality TV. We are promoting a spectator democracy on digital platforms, and, in the process, we are giving life to paranoid nightmares of doom and gloom, invasion and catastrophe, replacement and extinction. And artificial intelligence hasn’t even arrived yet. There is a way out, but it will mean abandoning our fear and contempt for those we have become convinced are our enemies. No one is in charge of this, and no amount of social science or monetary policy can correct for what is ultimately a spiritual deficit. We have surrendered to digital platforms that look at human individuality and variance as “noise” to be corrected, rather than signal to be cherished. Our leading technologists increasingly see human beings as a problem, and technology as the solution – and they use our behavior on their platforms as evidence of our essentially flawed nature. But the digital media environment could be helping us reconnect to local reality and terra firma. This is one of its potential breaks from media environments of the past. In the digital environment, we have the opportunity to remember who we really are and how to take responsibility for our world. Here, we are not just passive consumers; we are active citizens and more. That’s the real power of a distributed network: it is not centrally controlled, but locally generated. The digital environment is also built, quite literally, on memory. Everything a computer does happens in one form of RAM or another – just moving things from one section of its memory to another. The digital media environment functions like a big blockchain, recording and storing everything we say or do for later retrieval. It could be helping us retrieve real facts, track real metrics and recall something about the essence of who we were and how we related before we were untethered from ourselves and alienated from one another. The next decade will determine whether we human beings have what it takes to rise to the occasion of our own, imposed obsolescence. We must stop looking to our screens and their memes for a sense of connection to something greater than ourselves. We must stop building digital technologies that optimize us for atomization and impulsiveness, and create ones aimed at promoting sense-making and recall instead. We must seize the more truly digital, distributed opportunity to remember the values that we share, and reacquaint ourselves with the local worlds in which we actually live. For there, unlike the partitioned servers of cyberspace, we have a whole lot more in common with one another than we may suspect. Happy holidays. ---- This is RushkoffList, a monthlyish update and advance look at work in progress. Feel free to forward to your friends as long as you include this footer. To subscribe, use this link: http://www.simplelists.com/subscribe/rushkoff To unsubscribe: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=grdK4Lvi7veNxafT2DxZrw1oAyoTFsEc -- 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: NEWS (Announcements)
by Michel Bauwens 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:43 AM Subject: NEWS (Announcements) To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >From Paul Raskin [praskin(a)tellus.org] ---------------------------------------------------------- Dear GTN Colleagues, Thanks to all contributors for your thoughtful comments on the November exchange (archived at Corporations in the Crosshairs: From Reform to Redesign <https://greattransition.org/223-corporations-in-the-crosshairs-from-reform-…> ). A representative set is now live on the GTI homepage <https://greattransition.org/> , where you will also find a terrific interview with Kate Raworth on her “doughnut economics” and ways to challenge the neoclassical economics paradigm. Please help spread word of these publications by sharing, republishing, and blogging about them. In January, the GTN discussion—Toward a Great Ethics Transition—will consider the moral and ethical foundations for a Great Transition. Our point of departure will be a reflection on the <https://earthcharter.org/discover/the-earth-charter/> Earth Charter <https://earthcharter.org/discover/the-earth-charter/> , which turns twenty in 2020. We will hear from Earth Charter veterans, and also, *I hope*, from many of you drawing on complementary experiences and approaches. The GTN Bulletin Board <https://greattransition.org/bulletin-board/> is the place on our site to share news of publications, events, etc., with the 1000+ GT Network (submit info to jcohn(a)tellus.org) Recent entries include: • Ashish Kothari, “Earth Vikalp Sangam: Proposal for a Global Tapestry of Alternatives” • Conference announcement—The Great Transition International Conference (not formally affiliated with GTI) • Chico Whitaker, “World Social Forum – Possible Perspectives” As a grim year wanes, we can be forgiven a sense of foreboding and despair. Events are painfully confirming a fundamental premise of the Great Transition scenario: Conventional World paths lead to systemic crises and barbarized reaction. Our task and hope is to confirm another fundamental premise—that the crisis will continue to coalesce a mass movement for deep change. I wish all of you and yours the best of fortune in the year ahead. Onwards, Paul ---------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a comment on the GT Network Read all comments (or reply) here <https://greattransition.org/announcements/news#3097> Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: Financially Advantageous Approaches To Sustain The Ecosystem
by Michel Bauwens 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com> Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 3:19 AM Subject: Financially Advantageous Approaches To Sustain The Ecosystem To: Larae Long <larae.long(a)ethicalmarkets.com> “Ethical Markets highly recommends this article “Financially Advantageous Approaches to Sustain the Ecosystem” by NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell, which outlines the best ways forward to accelerate the shift from fossilized industrial sectors to the fully competitive, renewable, highly-efficient circular economies we have tracked in our Green Transition Scoreboard® annually since 2009, currently totaling a cumulative $10.387 trillion. Also recommended are our six programs with Bushnell in our TV series distributed globally to colleges at www.films.com and our 2010 Statement on “Transforming Finance“ <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/transforming-finance-groups-call-recognizes-f…>, now signed by almost one hundred financial professionals. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Financially Advantageous Approaches To Sustain The Ecosystem Dennis M. Bushnell, NASA Langley Research Center Introduction Humans are shorter term in their approach to problems and solution spaces. For evolutionary, gradual changes/issues with less than major impacts in the longer term, such a tactical approach is/has been successful. Abetting such a prevalent near term focus are two realisms: first, the amygdala, the part of our brain that keeps us conservative and second the power, financial and political of the current status quo/“winners”. The overall result is a reluctance/resistance to change, risk aversion, and shorter-term fixation. Although we have extensively studied climate change and ecosystem degeneration driven by human activities for decades, there has been huge inertia-to-denial until rather serious changes/impacts became readily apparent. Examples of such impacts for climate change include more prevalent and extreme floods, storms, disease, fires, ocean level rise, species extinctions, ocean acidification, ocean circulation changes, and temperature increases and are in fact evident now. In fact, during the Permian Extinction (also known as “The Great Dying”) the ocean circulation changes resulted in increased anoxic ocean conditions, leading to an overgrowth of cyanobacteria/blue-green algae. This alga produces hydrogen sulfide, which, in small percentages in the atmosphere, is a poison and attrite the ozone layer. Therefore, climate change is more than warm days and wet feet. The book “Drawdown” by Paul Hawken provides an extensive compilation of approaches to mitigate climate change. He discusses 80+ ways forward with an estimated total savings of approximately $73T over 30 years (Ref. 1). Current impacts to ecosystems include: fresh water shortages, species extinctions, pollution, deforestation, loss of topsoil, and wildlife habitat. The humans are practicing anti-terraforming, with many and rapidly increasing costs (e.g. financial, human/species lives, quality of life, etc.). Fundamentally, humans have been too successful as a species. We have pursued ever greater human numbers and an overall growth mantra as the economic basis without consideration of the finite size and capacity of available resources and the dumping ground (e.g. the major human uses of the finite ecosystem). The ecosystem provides the essentials for life including water, air, food, soil, plants, minerals, etc. and we are seriously now degrading it at our peril. Water regulation, pollution filtering, waste sink functionality, soil retention, nutrient cycling, and waste decomposition are all becoming degraded. Ever greater growth with a fixed resource is only possible via utilizing technology and approaches to alter resource utilization and/or controlling population. For many centuries, as humans depleted local resources, they have simply moved to other regions where resources were available. That is no longer an option as the present technologies and processes are degenerating the entire planet. There appears to be general agreement that we are short approximately 50% of a planet now. As world population growth continues and living standards rise, projections include a shortage of some three planets (i.e. ecosystem resource utilization and dumping will have to reduce considerably). Altering technology and approaches to adapt to such growth is termed sustainability, with various alternatives termed green growth, reusability and The Circular Economy. It also involves the valuing, protection, and strengthening of what are termed “ecosystem services” (Ref. 2). The purpose of this report is to consider the examination and application of financial gain incentives to greatly accelerate the development of sustainability as a whole. This financial approach is responsible for the now hugely successful growth of renewable energy generation and storage. During the last decades, technology has reduced the costs of renewables and storage to the point where they are below parity and still reducing in cost. Not much happened with regard to application and utilization of renewables until their costs reduced such that financially they were the best solution (Ref 17). The major determiner of their application was financial gain and not the climate downsides enumerated above. Also, inexpensive renewable, green electric generation and storage are the pivotal key or enabler for climate mitigation as electrification can be applied widely to the other major sources of CO2 besides electric generation (e.g. transportation, industrial and commercial operations, building HVAC, etc.). Many functions and processes now producing CO2 can be electrified, so the renewables growth will have a seriously major overall impact on climate. It is perhaps useful to examine the particulars regarding this financial driven renewables success story, and then to collect and ideate some similar financially overarching approaches and technologies for ecosystem rejuvenation/sustainability to hopefully greatly accelerate such. There are two obvious high-level sources of financial benefit for both the ecosystem and the portion of the ecosystem currently being seriously worked (i.e. climate). These financially beneficial approaches strive to mitigate the trillions of dollars of negative effects due to ecosystems and climate if the current negative trends continue, and to alter technology and approaches to situations with major profit potential. First, the current financial approaches for climate will be examined and then secondly, a similar overall approach will be applied to the rest of the ecosystem to enable sustainability, the circular economy, green growth, etc., obviating continued ecosystem degradation in the process. The overall bottom line of business as usual is an average loss of some 7% (or more depending upon actual temperature rise) of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2100 (Ref. 3). On the other hand, seriously working mitigation of the ecosystem including climate is projected to increase global GDP by some 5% by 2050. It is not possible to change things for the overall financial and ecosystem good without, in fact, changing some things. There will be winners and losers. In the case of climate, for renewable energy the winners are the public with reduced climate impacts across the board, reduced energy bills, cleaner air, and firms that successfully manufacture and sell various types of renewable energy. Losers thus far, due to availability of lower cost options, include coal and nuclear power. As renewables and storage continue to reduce in cost and become more efficient, gas and petroleum will probably be seriously affected. Investors in these previously dominant industries will be left with stranded assets even though the amounts invested in these fossil carbon industries were, are, still remain, major. Therefore, as we change our approaches to reverse the current climate and ecosystem trends, there will be financial difficulties associated with such losers that will have to be considered/worked. For example, the stock market value of the U.S. coal industry in 2011 was worth approximately $37B. As of 2019, its worth was about $2B (Ref. 4). Historically, there have been concerns regarding the costs of ecosystem/climate remediation. However, now action has shifted to concerns going forward regarding the even greater costs of not taking action/remediation (Ref. 5) along with not taking advantage of the financial opportunities associated with those remediation approaches (e.g. green growth and the circular economy). As mentioned previously, there will be some cases where specific major industry/resources will be negatively impacted. An indication of this 180 degree shift is mirrored in the increasing importance of climate/environmental performance upon the evaluation of top management. The governor of the bank of England stated that companies that fail to respond to the challenges of climate change will go bankrupt without question. The value of the rapidly growing Global Green Economy in 2015/16 was at least $7.87T (Ref. 6). A Simplex Look at The Climate Financials Story Part One – Negative Climate Change and Financial Avoidance 1. Avoidance of huge insurance*, personal, productivity, commercial/industrial losses from climate change induced/increased phenomena including: - Flooding - Storms - Fires - Sea Level Rise - Droughts - Disease - Temperature increase/heat - Landslides *Insurance is some 11% of the U.S. GDP (Ref 5). 2. Avoidance of negative impacts on fields such as: - Agriculture - Fishing - Health services Infrastructures - Mining - Supply chains - Food systems - Asset prices (including real estate) - Land/labor productivity 3. Projections indicate that the U.S. economy could shrink on the order of 10% to 25% by 2100 depending upon the effects of positive feedbacks. 4. Recent estimates of the social monetized cost/ton of CO2 emissions on the economy is on the order of $100/ton in 2018, with 37B tons emitted, resulting in $3.7T/yr societal costs or approximately 4% of GDP (Ref. 7). Other recent estimates of the social cost of carbon range from $220 (Ref. 8) to $500+ per ton of CO2 emissions, depending upon what costs are included. 5. Given the cost of raising children, it is of interest that in terms of reducing carbon emissions at the personal level, having one fewer child saves the most by far, 58 tons of CO2 emissions/yr (Ref. 9). 6. Consumers, given the now obvious manifestations of climate change, are increasingly demanding climate friendly operations and products across the board, producing loss of business for those who do not deliver such 7. Almost a quarter of all disease is caused by adverse environmental exposure (Ref. 10). 8. Estimates indicate a two degree C temperature rise would reduce GDP by 15% and a three degree C rise would reduce it 25%. In 2100, temperature rise is slated for 4 degrees C, producing a 30% reduction in GDP (Ref. 11). 9. Yearly cost for unmitigated climate change would total at least 5% of GDP and the yearly cost could be as high as 20% of GDP (Ref. 12). 10. Warming of 6 degrees C could lead to present value loss of $43T or 30% of the global total (Ref. 13). 11. Since 1980, extreme weather has cost $1.6T (Ref. 11). 12. Over a decade the U.S. EPA Regulations cost $45B and produced $640B in benefits (Ref. 14). 13. In the U.S., $23 trillion will be lost if temperatures rise four degrees by 2100 (Ref. 15). Part Two – Prospective Financial Gains from Mitigating Climate Change 1. Due to technologies and economies of scale, renewable energy generation is now at or below cost parity with fossil carbon fuels and still plummeting. Energy storage costs are reducing rapidly, leading to cheaper electricity and electric transportation, new markets, and reduced costs of living and manufacturing costs. Indicators show large job increases in related fields, reduced health issues from fossil fuel pollution, along with much reduced cooling water requirements. 1. Less costly energy enables more profitable desalinization, aluminum production, ocean mining, etc. 1. Distributed energy, including at home energy generation, constitutes a more reliable, robust, and less expensive system. 1. Energy conservation developments enabled efficient buildings that produce energy vice constituting a sizable source of energy load, major costs. 1. There are potentially huge profits from switching from Glycophyte/fresh water agricultural approaches to halophyte/saline (Ref 16) agriculture. It allows for utilization of massive currently unexploited planet resources such as deserts/wastelands and saline/seawater. This new approach would: - Produce biomass for replacing petroleum for petrochemical feedstock - Produce massive amounts of food/free up a sizable portion of the 70% of the fresh water now used for agriculture - Produce massive amounts of biofuels - Sequester major amounts of CO2 - Address resource challenges relating to land, water, food, energy, and climate - Reduce costs of, and the need for, ever more courageous water conservation 1. This new approach would result in a wholly new agricultural industry with a huge environmental upside utilizing ultra-inexpensive land and water. 1. Battery/energy storage markets are huge, and increasing rapidly. Battery prices have fallen some 85% in a decade (Ref 17). 1. Renewable energy investments over the past decade are estimated at $2.5T, with a major growth in related employment (Ref 18). 1. Reportedly, investing $1.7T in climate change mitigation over the next 10 years would yield $7T in economic returns, due to avoidance and increased productivity of new equipment (Ref 19). A Look at the Potential Ecosystem Financials Outlook Part One - Negative Ecosystem Degradation Financial Avoidance 1. Avoidance of major personal, commercial, industrial, and agricultural losses from ecosystem degradation due to: - Loss of topsoil - Fresh water shortages - Species extinctions - Pollution including trash and industrial waste - Deforestation - Loss of fish stocks - Depletion of natural resources 1. Avoidance of some 9 million deaths/year from pollution (e.g. ozone, CO, NO2, particulates, SO2, ammonia, lead, chemicals), which is 15 times the number of deaths from wars and 16% of global deaths/year. Costs of pollution are some $4.6T on the global economy (Ref. 20). 1. Marine plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5T a year (Ref 21). 1. Nine out of 10 people in the world breathe highly polluted air (Ref 22). 1. The world’s terrestrial ecosystem services have been valued on an annual basis to be approximately equivalent to the annual GDP (Ref. 25). 1. The cumulative loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services between 2000 and 2050 could be equivalent to 7% of the 2050 world GDP (Ref 24). 1. Between 1997 and 2011, estimates indicate the world lost up to $21T in ecosystem services due to land cover change and land degeneration (Ref. 23). [Note: certain references calculate ecosystem services loses differently based on certain variables.] 1. Ecosystem services vital to human well-being (e.g. crop pollination, water purification, flood protection, and carbon sequestration), are evaluated at an estimated $125-140T/ year, 1.5 times greater than the global GDP (Ref. 23). [Note: certain references calculate ecosystem services differently based on certain variables.] Part Two – Prospective Financial Gains from Approaches to Reverse Ecosystem Degradation 1. Halophytes, salt plants on wastelands, deserts using saline/seawater The immense advantages of switching to halophytes (Ref. 16) include: - Saline-tolerant plant biomass utilizing what we have a surfeit of (and what could be our last major play regarding the ecosystem): wastelands, deserts (which make up 44% of the land area), and seawater (97% of the planet's water resources). - Seawater contains 80% of the nutrients needed to grow plants, and researchers are developing new techniques to extract nitrogen from the air, thus requiring little fertilizer. - Advanced technology is not required and cultivation uses inexpensive land and water, so the economics are very favorable. The shift to halophytes could be accomplished in relatively short order. - Halophyte cultivation for food would free up 70% or more of the total freshwater used for conventional glycophyte agriculture, and which we are now running out of for direct human use, thus solving both water and food problems - Cultivation of halophyte biomass would similarly obviate the necessity of using arable land and freshwater for biofuels and provide petrochemical feedstocks for plastics and other industrial products, essentially eliminating the need for petroleum feed stocks. It is literally green energy and chemicals. - Halophytes sequester up to 18% of their carbon dioxide uptake in their deep roots (5 tons of CO2/Ha) removing CO2 from the atmosphere. - Seawater contains trace elements essential to healthy human physiology, which we have largely depleted from arable land due to overuse. 1. Ocean mineral extraction using inexpensive renewable energy instead of hard rock mining which is a major source of pollution. 1. Recycling (aka the circular economy) for nearly everything including solids, liquids, and gases. Tech companies to do this at ultra-low costs and increasingly local including printers. 1. The University of Nottingham is attempting to utilize atmospheric nitrogen for agriculture, incurring far less fertilizer costs, runoff, and reducing ocean O2 loss. 1. On less than a half-acre and with help from developing technologies, going forward we could: - Grow own food - Print what we want/need - Recycle on site - Use distributed energy generation - Conduct tele-education and tele-medicine - Utilize five senses virtual reality (VR)/tele-travel This could all be done with far less physical travel needed. Many in the gig economy (based on flexible, temporary or freelance jobs connecting to customers through an online platform) and those tele-working/commuting can live just about anywhere. Going forward some may not need a job since these opportunities could result in huge personal financial independence and minimal impacts upon the ecosystem. 1. The ongoing major shift in wealth generation from exploiting natural resources to inventing things has a far smaller ecosystem impact in general. 1. Various adaptations/resilience approaches to ecosystem and climate changes have overall benefits estimated at $7T (Ref 26). 1. Mckinsey estimates business opportunities on the order of $60B/yr for new approaches to plastics recycling (Ref. 27). 1. 3-D printing will transform manufacturing by allowing the manufacturing of products to be accomplished at the individual level. This would reduce waste, enable use of new/different materials and much more complex/optimized designs/functionalities, while using 90% less material and at greatly reduced costs. 3-D printing is set to be an emerging, ecosystem friendly evolving market. (Ref. 28). 1. U.S. green economy estimated at $1.3T/yr, 6.8% of our $19T/yr economy. There are greater returns in the green economy than in the stock market. Estimated GDP climate losses/yr are some 4% of GDP. Therefore, the total effect of mitigating the losses and the green economy is 4 plus 6.8 or some 11% of GDP, which is nearly 2T (Ref. 29). The global green economy is approximately $8T. 1. There has been $10.4T in private investment during 2009-2019 in the Global Green Economy (Ref 30). Concluding Remarks Favorable financials and increased profits are, due to massive reductions in the costs of renewables and storage, currently on a path to mitigate/fix climate in a few decades. It is more than conceivable, given the huge economic value of the ecosystem and the major financial upsides of various mitigation approaches/alternatives, that the financials could also fix the rest of the ecosystem issues. These considerations, options, and experiences refute the long held conventional wisdom that fixing the ecosystem issues, including climate, would be extremely costly and anti-growth. In fact, considering both the avoidance of financial downsides and evolving markets for mitigation approaches and their offshoots, fixing the ecosystem and climate is the way forward to excellent financial growth and success. It will require changes, which are either already underway or available for financial exploitation. So, yes, decarbonization and a circular economy/green growth are both achievable in the midterm, and are very financially advantageous. In the case of climate, there was minimal progress until the financials became advantageous. That same power of the financials can, and should be successful in regards to greatly improving the outlook for the rest of the ecosystem. References 1. Hawken, Paul, Ed., “Drawdown”, Penguin Books, 2017. 2. Newcome, Jodi, et al, “The Economic, Social and Ecological Value of Ecosystem Services”, EFTEC, Economics for the Environment Consultancy, London, January, 2005. 3. Kahn, Matthew E. et al “Long -Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change: a Cross Country Analysis”, NBER working paper, No. 26167, 2019, Univ. of Cambridge. 4. Cho, Renee, “How Climate Change Impacts the Economy”, June 20, 2019, State of the Planet, Earth Institute, Colombia University. 5. Makower, Joel, “Capitolisms’ Change of Climate”, Greenbiz, 6 August, 2019, https://www.greenbiz.com/article/capitalisms-change-climate. 6. Georgeson, L. and Maslin, M, “U.S. Green Economy Worth $1.3 T Per Year, But New Policies Needed to Maintain Growth”, Phys. Org., Oct. 15, 2019, University College London, https://phys.org/news/2019-10-green-economy-worth-trillion-year.html. 7. Daniel, Kent D. et al, “Declining CO2 Price Paths”, PNAS, Oct. 15, 2019, https://www.pnas.org/content/116/42/20886. 8. Than, Ker, “The Economic Damage From Climate Change May Be More Than You Think”, Stanford Engineering Research and Ideas, 26 Feb. 2016, https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/economic-damage-climate-c… . 9. Mcdonald, Fiona, “Here Are 10 Not-So-Obvious Things You Can Do To Help The Planet Today”, 22 Sept. 2019, Science Alert, https://www.sciencealert.com/here-are-10-not-so-obvious-things-you-can-do-t… . 10. World Health Organization, 2006, “Almost a quarter of all disease caused by environmental exposure,” https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr32/en/. 11. Amadeo, Kimberly, “Climate Change Facts and Effects on the Economy”, The Balance, June 25, 2019, https://www.thebalance.com/economic-impact-of-climate-change-3305682. 12. Sandberg, Maria et al, “Green Growth or Degrowth, Assessing The Normative Justifications For Environmental Sustainability And Economic Growth Through Critical Social Theory”, J. of Cleaner Production, v. 206, Jan. 2019, ppgs. 133-141. 13. Intelligence Unit of The Economist “The Cost of Inaction: Recognizing the Value at Risk From Climate Change”, 2015, https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sites/default/files/The%20cost%20of%2… . 14. Liu, Hannah, “Why Environmental Regulation is Good For the Economy”, Sept. 24, 2016, Wharton School of The University of Penn., Public Policy Initiative, https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/live/news/1380-why-environmental-reg… . 15. Kompas, Tom, “U.S. $23T Will Be Lost If Temperatures Rise By 4 Degrees C by 2100” Phys. Org., August 15, 2018, https://phys.org/news/2018-08-trillion-lost-temperatures-degrees.html. 16. Glenn, Edward P. et al, “Irrigating Crops With Seawater”, Scientific American, August 1998, ppgs. 76-81. 17. 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Fwd: Help write the story of us
by Michel Bauwens 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Neal from Shareable <neal(a)shareable.net> Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:01 PM Subject: Help write the story of us To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> If you’re a believer in people power like we are, if you want to change the story with us. View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/shareable/weekly-newsletter-11-20-2284939?e=785614fc16> Dear Michel, By the end of 2019, Shareable will have published four, yes four, e-books of up to 170 pages each. Each topic was chosen carefully for the opportunity it presented to challenge the dominant narratives that are guiding society down the wrong paths. With climate change and extreme wealth inequality shaking our world, it’s critical that we create a new story together that puts sharing and cooperation at the center of our imaginations and lives. <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8…> For instance, we started off the year with an e-book on the loneliness epidemic, arguing that it’s not just a public health problem, it’s a threat to the integrity of society. Sharing can help re-weave the social fabric. Next we focused on community response to disaster. We pointed out that those affected aren’t just victims, but are often part of a heroic shared effort to recover and rebuild on a new, more resilient basis. Another highlight was our in-depth exploration of U.S. land use and housing policy where we explored how racism shaped the housing crisis and how that history should inform solutions to it. We’re topping off the year with an e-book on waste reduction reframing it as a challenge that communities can and must tackle too, not just industry. What I hope you see in our work is a fierce commitment to the idea that ordinary people are powerful. That you can change your circumstances for the better with neighbors starting today. This is social change that’s one door knock away. This is Shareable’s story of us. Shareable challenges the idea that change only comes from powerful individuals, organizations, and governments. We show with our solutions journalism that people-powered solutions not only work, but their impacts add up mightily. If you’re a believer in people power like we are, if you want to change the story with us, if you want more of what we did this year in 2020, then please support our work with a donation. <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8…> If you need a tiny nudge to donate, we have a special offer right this way. If you begin a recurring donation of any amount or give a one-time donation of $50 or more by the end of the year, we’ll send you five books! Yes, FIVE books. We’ll email you a link where you can download all four of Shareable’s 2019 ebooks. AND, we’ll snail mail you a hardback copy of “Team Human” by acclaimed media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, a long-time ally who donated 250 books for Shareable donors. DONATE TO SHAREABLE TODAY <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8…> Please come along with us in 2020. To the story of us, Neal Gorenflo Executive Director Shareable This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net *why did I get this?* <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/about?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8dd&id=…> unsubscribe from this list <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8…> update subscription preferences <https://shareable.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=9a850b8fb9f84ddaf1fc2f8dd&i…> Shareable · 487 Central Ave · Mountain View, CA 94043-4859 · USA -- 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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