Posts in BUILD THE ECONOMY
A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out
Crypto and Web3 may help to bring us to a "fully political money" - one which we design and shape as citizens
Nudges don't work because they're 1) limited and fragile 2) unethical, 3) they backfire and 4) lack theoretical backing
"The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking is born of a simple realisation: The world we have inherited is no longer working"
The playfulness of Web 3.0 and crypto culture - the coming era of the internet - is a feature, not a bug, says Pat Kane
A Lancashire village self-regenerating—via community centre, library, shop, pub—is good to see. But not every place has enough capital, human or financial, to succeed
Web 3.0 can be a bewildering, competitive place... so let DisCO CAT tell you how it could be cooperative, creative and caring
A BETTER MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ECONOMICS, INGENUITY, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, BUILD THE ECONOMYpat kaneblockchain, DAO, DCO, crypto, ledger
Alternative Editorial: What Is A Good Country?
Stacks and doughnuts to illustrate how Civic Square has progressed its vision, through collective dreaming and meticulous building
DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, COMMUNITY, INGENUITY, BUILD THE ECONOMY, FUTURESpat kanecivic square, urban studies, suburban, dark matter labs, birmingham
If AI and blockchain managed all our economics, could we live by simply pursuing human presence together? How would that work?
Urban land keeps getting sold off, instead of functioning as a commons for citizens. England’s first Land Commission, in Liverpool, can change this
We tell ourselves we are consumers 3000 times a day. A new book asks: what if we told ourselves we were citizens?
Post-growth initiatives live in a teeming eco-system, supporting each other from every angle
Our response to Black Friday? Shareable’s 9 free e-books, on how to live a vibrant, cost-free community life
Woe is us - the UK's productivity is low. But high productivity tears through the planet's resources, says Adam Lent. So should we celebrate it?
Locavore, and Glasgow Community Energy, show off the city’s appetite for green businesses, under a global spotlight
“A revolution in how we produce the stuff of life”: cosmolocalism gets its first full reader, launching next week
🎶I never Meta world like you before…🎶 But Zuckerberg’s parallel digital universe is something we’ve been anticipating at A/UK
BIG PICTURE, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, FUTURES, TECHNOLOGY, TELL THE STORY, INGENUITY, 4TH SECTOR, BUILD THE ECONOMY, NEW ECONOMICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneparallel polis, metaverse
What's a "landscape partnership"? Like a bioregion, or a CAN, it uses technology to bring humans and nature into alignment
House farmers, caravan dwellers, and the home that cost £1: Lynsey Hanley listens to the voices living out the UK’s housing crisis