“… China is pioneering what I call “networked authoritarianism.&# It also makes most people a lot less likely to join a movement calling for radical political change. China catapulted itself to become the world’s second largest economy by turning itself into the world’s factory. MORE >>

Gideon Rosenblatt Follow me on Twitter RSS Feeds Home About Movement as Network « Powerful Connections Touch the Soul Fairness » China’s Enlightened Billionaire Wow. One can only hope that there are other leaders like him, climbing the ranks of China’s economy. I’d never heard Jack Ma speak before. MORE >>

With this we can create a scenario of cloud intelligence, and as people relay their knowledge into this cloud one by one these changes can reach a certain level. Robin Peckham has interviewed Isaac Mao for Digimag 58. Sharism is moving from a general ideology, to a concrete project. For full details check the original interview. MORE >>

Shift Change delves into some of the limitations of coops, particularly the shift in thinking it requires. (“It’s not for everyone,” said one interview subject.) In order to compete with other global supply chains, Mondragon has purchased non-coop factories in Mexico and China – which it plans to convert them to coops. MORE >>

Article: Interest Rates and Climate Change: Realigning our Incentives through the Power of the Commons. We must reexamine the claim that incorporating higher prices for CO2 emissions into our activities is the only way to change human behavior. Price may be a proximate cause of climate change, but it is not the root cause. MORE >>