It’s not very different from what we see and will continue to see. David de Ugarte offers a critique of the scarcity movements such as degrowth, as a sign of the decomposition of capitalist society. original article has many links). Both focused on developing a concept familiar today to readers of Juan Urrutia: the economy of abundance. MORE >>

Those that say that the green revolution will save the world should come and see the hundreds of thousands who have committed suicide in India,” he warns. Satheesh points out that as many as 100,000 of the farmer suicides have been in Punjab, which is the centre of industrialised agriculture in India. They emanate hope.”. MORE >>

Excerpted from David de Ugarte : “ October second of this year will be the tenth anniversary of the Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas, the founding business of the Grupo Cooperativo de las Indias. The pioneering p2p group will reach 10 years this October. It wasn’t an idealistic objective. Think in Networks!], But we closed. MORE >>

On April 1st, amidst all that was going on in my family, I had the chance to step into a different “space&# and participate in WeDialog’s first online world cafe on “community.&# Since this was a “audio&# online experience, I grabbed my pens to try and add a visual aspect for myself. Over 550 people registered. MORE >>

Canada, USA, South America, Africa, Europe, India, the Far East and Australia were all represented and at the time of writing 60 people have accessed the Moodle site within the last 3 weeks. On reflection #fslt12 was a SmOOC – a small open online course. We had 151 people register for FSLT12 and 168 register for the Moodle site. MORE >>