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For authors and their reader-communities, has conventional book publishing become obsolete or at least grossly inefficient and overpriced? 
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While much of the momentum to fight climate change is focused on political channels, there are parallel efforts using law to force government to take specific, enforceable actions to reduce carbon emissions. It’s a difficult battle, but in recent weeks two notable initiatives have gained further momentum – a court ruling relying on the public trust doctrine and a new human rights declaration that has broad international support.
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The Sustainable Development Goals say that we’re on track to ending global poverty by 2030, but only by prioritising economic growth at all costs.
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This report demonstrates how a call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
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Help our friends at Growstuff in their righteous campaign to build a global, open-source database to help foodgrowers around the world. Please read the campaign text posted below and head on over to their crowdfunding page to help in any way you can.
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The P2P Foundation is a full supporting partner of the Cooperativa Integral Catalana, or CIC. We feel that they’re doing essential work in prototyping pre-figurative models of peer production, governance and property. You can find a lot of information about them, their ethics, and long term plans in their excellent English website, or in our own wiki entry on the CIC. We plan to report regularly on the CIC’s activities and our involvement with the group. Today, we want to highlight just one of their most inspiring initiatives: beyond specific target and time based crowdfunding, there is “Coop-funding“. Coopfunding’s own literature describes its platform in the following way. It is:
jean lievens's insight:
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Here’s a very special treat. Originally published on Guerrilla Translation, Movimiento por la Democracia´s “Charter for Democracy” stands out as premier example of citizen-led solution making to the various crises we face. It is a constitution for the commons written by commons.
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Decentralizing the commons is a key requisite for their protection and evolution.
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20 participants assembled to discuss what we mean when we talk about commons and create an action plan for Chicago’s Chamber of Commons.
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The goal of seed sharing is to preserve and promote genetic diversity by having people grow tons of different plants all over the place.
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Sign the global call for sharing and add your voice to the growing demand for a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources within and between countries.
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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Enric Duran on shared and disobedient crowdfunding platform networks
We’ve recently featured Coopfunding, an Open-Sourced crowdfunding platform designed to “…promote the financing of projects with a social, self managed and cooperative nature.” Today we present a guest article by Enric Duran, one of the developers behind Coopfunding and its parent-project, the Catalan Integral Cooperative, explaining the reasons that led to the creation of Coopfunding. This article was originally published inRadi.MS
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Our friend Nadia EL-Imam , from Edgeryders has alerted us to this important campaign. Please read the article below and add your signature to the petition.
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It’s probably too late for most of us to attend, but this Friday through Sunday, June 6-8,Pixelache Helsinki 2014 will host an international two-day trans-disciplinary event on “The Commons.”
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