Casa Robino

Anyone can join The People's Supermarket - and as a member you must work in the shop for a few hours every month. Because the workforce is nearly all volunteers, staff costs are kept low - which means your shopping can be cheaper. And any profits we make go back into making the food even cheaper still.

See original: about " The People's Supermarket

Social identity is another driver for cooperation. The more connected people feel to a community, the more willing they are to work together for that group's interests.

See original: "guide to how to cooperate"

Folks involved with the Transition Towns and the Fair Trade Cities movements and alternative community energy programs joined in to network and begin to develop strategies for future collaboration.

See original: JASecon Grassroots Economy Festival - JASecon

The name PPP ("Public Private Property") is choosen because the private owner keeps the good's property rights and/but decides to establish public co-usage's terms for it.

See original: Public Private Property (PPP) is a proposal for effective sharing of physical goods.

Unlike liberal conceptions of rights that emanate from a conceptualization of the individual as the fundamental agent of social activity, a biocultural approach to rights takes as its primary focus the community and the myriad relationships that bind it together.<br />
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In a biocultural context, however, in which TK rather than private property is one of the primary agents mediating human relations, the biospiritual virtues that determine a TK user’s responsibilities to the community and the ecosystem provide the basis for a somewhat different rights perspective that focuses on communal ties as well as the individuals that share them.

See original: [p2p-research] Fwd: Introducing a biocultural approach towards Traditional Knowledge Commons licensing

See original: Integral City

See original: INTERSEL.BE • Page d'index

A while ago now I had a conversation with David Holmgren about how his 12 principles of permaculture might apply to business.

See original: David Holmgren on Permaculture, Business, Resilience and Transition » Transition Culture

See original: DumpsterWorld - Index - 9

See original: Let' Reclaim The Commons