Showing posts with label co-ops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label co-ops. Show all posts

Monday, May 06, 2013

What if we all enjoyed meaningful social connections?: Lisa Cook at TEDxMahtomedi


Something that might seem obvious to a traditionalist, who has no intellectual commitment to explaining the world in terms of evolution -
Survival of the ... Nicest? Check Out the Other Theory of Evolution
A new theory of human origins says cooperation—not competition—is instinctive.

Men have the drive to do both - compete and cooperate, within their community. Competition for the sake of improvement, status, and establishing some hierarchy, cooperation for their own benefit and for the benefit of the group.

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Yes! Magazine Issue on Cooperatives

Here's one article: The Cooperative Way to a Stronger Economy by Sarah van Gelder
Co-ops—just like people—can get more done together than anyone can do alone. They come in many forms, and are more common than you might imagine.

More articles.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Items of Interest, 9 November 2011

The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'
"Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'"
mp3)

Book Review: Radical Gardening: Politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden
by Chuck Morse (EB)

BALLE: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.

"This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (julietschor.org)."

Italy's co-ops form a different sort of economy (archive)

Slow Food USA: Have a Slow Food Thanksgiving

Kelley Vlahos, The Ministry of Truth: Justices Invoke 1984

OWS:
Tomgram: Frances Fox Piven, The War on the Home Front
Talking with Matt Taibi
End Bonuses for Bankers

Richard Heinberg, MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A Post Growth Economy)


The Roots of the Protest
by George Leef
Occupy Wall Street might never have started If politicians hadn’t oversold higher education.



Guerilla Gardening at Occupy Wall Street

Peak Oil:
Eric Curren, Who Will Sound the Peak Oil Alarm
The biofuel grind by Tom Murphy (EB)

Collapse:
Three paths to near-term human extinction

Catholic:
College of St. Mary Magdalen: New England College Celebrates EF and OF, Ad Orientem

Catholic Life After the Ivy League: The Church of Our Saviour, NYC
(One of my favorite spots in New York. I still haven't been to St. Vincent Ferrer. Next time I'm in the city, perhaps.)

Word on Fire: Spirituality: The Monks of New Melleray
New Melleray Abbey

Music:
Four the Record: Miranda Lambert Comes to Terms with Herself