Archivo del autor: Sylvia García

The hacker economy

Many people assume that evolution is about the survival of the fittest. It’s not. What really drives evolution is adaptation to changing environments. That’s why our planet is made up of more than just one super-fit organism. Instead, we have a complex ecosystem. New things come in and displace old ones, but the old onesSigue leyendo «The hacker economy»

P2P production and the coming of the commons

By Hilary Wainwright : Rethinking Michel Bauwens work. Illustration: Andrzej Krauze  ‘At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto.Sigue leyendo «P2P production and the coming of the commons»

The end of an era

Authored by Dr. Tim Morgan, Tullet Prebon, The economy as we know it is facing a lethal confluence of four critical factors – the fall-out from the biggest debt bubble in history; a disastrous experiment with globalisation; the massaging of data to the point where economic trends are obscured; and, most important of all, the approach ofSigue leyendo «The end of an era»

Ecovillages

Robert Gilman set out a definition of an ecovillage that was to become a standard: «human-scale full-featured settlement in which human activities are harmlessly integrated into the natural world in a way that is supportive of healthy human development, and can be successfully continued into the indefinite future.» You can find a couple of directoriesSigue leyendo «Ecovillages»

Sharing communities

This is not the first time I talk about collaborative consumption and I am sure it will not be the last. This movement is growing as the same pace as the sharing phylosophy; the most we can use anything we own, the best for the planet and a highest return for our investment. Economies of scaleSigue leyendo «Sharing communities»