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  1. A “do-ocracy” operates on the idea that those who mobilise more resources towards a certain task and demonstrate their merit to the community have the legitimacy to make decisions that relate to that task, rather than legitimacy being based on arbitrary rules that consolidate power representing a threat for their creative impulses (Levy ...

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    By Gary Horvitz: "Does the term thriving actually mean anything? Or is it a merely artificial distinction? As Peter Block has said, all transformation is linguistic. What does the word thrive convey that the word sustainable does not? I would suggest four principles of Thriving: 1. Thriving is the spiritual dimension of sustainability. What sustain...

    Jean Russell

    Interview in Worldchanging: Jon Lebkowsky: Let's start with the definition of thrivability I found at http://thrivable.wagn.org/wagn/Nurture, that it's "our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them. Using whole systems approach, it demands that we evolve our way of being together, of collaborating, so that our collective wisdom and action bring forth a flourishing world and thriving life." W...

    Lonny Grafman

    Lonny Grafman is the president of the Appropedia Foundation. Interview by Todd Hoskins: " I think that sustainability has a common connotation, especially in poor communities, that we are sustaining the status quo. Or at the maximum trying to be zero impact – minimizing our footprint. I see thrivability as engendering a sense that we are trying to go past minimizing our impact, instead aiming for a positive impact. Sustainability is about conserving resources and thrivability is about savorin...

    By Gary Horvitz: "I’ve encountered a lot of talk about thriving lately. Everywhere I turn I am hearing that word: movies, meetings, online and personal conversation. It used to be that sustainable was sufficient. That word has now become inadequate. Now we need something more. Maybe “sustainable” has been used so much it’s missing the clearly principled clarity it once had. With all the machinations of the billion dollar public relations campaigns bent on greening corporate images, we can har...

    Anneloes Smitsman: "The concept that is offered for exploring this transformational change process is called thrivability. Here are two definitions and ways of thinking about thrivability that have inspired the research that forms part of this dissertation. Firstly, from one of the founders of the thrivability movement, Jean Russell: - Thrivability...

    Thrivable.orgis a solution-focused, collective space for learning, connecting, and evolving thrivable awareness and possibility.

  2. Discussion Peter Turchin on the Topography Effect on European and Chinese History = Peter Turchin disputes the geographical theory of Jared Diamond: "The contrast between politically fragmented Europe and perennially centralized China has been often noted. It ...

  3. This is an excerpt from the P2P Foundational Essay which also appeared in our blog. "This articulation of modernity, based on a autonomous self in a society which he himself creates through the social contract, has been changing in postmodernity. Simondon, a French philosopher of technology with an important posthumous following in the French ...

  4. Of whiteness/white fragility as defined by Di Angelo, by Helen Pluckrose: "the belief system around these concepts of whiteness, privilege and fragility includes the truth claims that: An invisible power system exists that perpetuates racism throughout every aspect of society.

  5. Jean Russell: 1.2.1 Disruptive Innovation 1.2.2 Combinatory Innovation 1.2.3 Efficiency Innovation 2 Key Innovation Trends 3 Discussion 3.1 A critique of the concept of innovation 3.2 Discussion topics 4 Examples 5 Key Books to Read 6 Listen and watch 7 Policy

  6. Bertie Russell: "The question of “what makes municipalism radical?” might find its answer in the where, how and who of directional demands. In bringing these together, we’re suggesting that it’s at the municipal scale that we may find our best chance in producing ‘practices and processes’ that can really be considered as contributing to ‘beyond-capitalist dynamics’.