[P2P-F] Shareable's call for submissions

Sat Jan 8 23:38:33 CET 2011

There are lots of activities that cannot be done alone (even with instructions).
In ecologies this constitutes a minimum sustainable population threshold
and is shown here:

http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=understanding-carrying-capacity

21st century DIO (do it ourselves) requires understanding of how
activities will plummet to zero
if they fall below sustainability thresholds

-p

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Neal Gorenflo <neal at shareable.net> wrote:
>> http://www.shareable.net/blog/share-or-die-youth-in-recession-call-for-submissions
>>
>
>> DIY How-to’s: If we can’t afford to buy stuff, we’re going to have to
>> do a lot more making, repairing, and sharing. Share Or Die is supposed
>> to be a useful guide for young people, so this section is going to be
>> the core of the collection. These are practical tutorials, but they
>> can be as material as building a backyard herb garden or as immaterial
>> as starting a band. We’re concerned with the big stuff here: housing,
>> transportation, food, relationships, non-traditional forms of work,
>> travel, that kind of thing.
>
> A pre-requisite for this part should be that not only are there
> how-to's and practical tutorials, but those tutorials and how-to's
> also include practical descriptions about how people will do these
> activities in a socially cooperative, collaborative or networked
> fashion.
>
> There's actually a massive difference between growing your *own* herb
> garden that is for you, as compared to growing an herb garden that is
> part of a cooperative effort to feed yourself and others who
> participate in sharing with you.
>
> Young people can definitely benefit from the proposed basic practical
> survival skills in the DIY How to's pitch above. Yet, I believe that
> *the* core crucial practical survival skill for young people will be
> to learn to effective cooperate, participate in sharing and pooling
> networks, sustain ongoing collaboration, and generally learn how to
> share what they build.
>
>
> http://www.appropedia.org is a great existing resource for
> collaborating around practical survival designs (I've contributed to
> this project. http://cooperationcommons and http://p2pwiki.net
> http://meatballwiki.org http://communitywiki.org and
> http://collaboration.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page are probably the most
> valuable places for ongoing practical knowledge about how to
> effectively cooperate, collaborate, and share
>
> Douglas Rushkoff is putting together a set of resources as a companion
> to his book Life, inc. too, that promises to be useful for young
> people as well
>
> In addition to this, young people are going to be challenged with
> figuring out how to make whatever they do together work within the
> bounds of the laws of the places they live. Those laws usually favor
> activity arranged as for-profit business. Would young people be
> wasting their time trying to get involved in changing those politics
> in some activist way? And/or, are they better just diving in and
> learning how to navigate and prosper within the existing systems and
> bureaucracies?
>
>
>
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> Sam Rose
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>
> "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>

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