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2016年8月6日 · Only 5% was owned by the ‘big four’ power companies. Each year DGRV, the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation, conducts a survey on energy cooperatives in Germany. The resulting report gives us clear insight into the significance of, the growth in, and the uncertainty now being caused by a changing government policy.
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- Plenitude as The Way Forward Out of The Meltdown of Global Capitalism
- Juliet Schor on The Four Fundamentals of Plenitude
- Juliet Schor on The Two Types of Economic Growth
Juliet Schor: "It is a great pleasure to communicate with colleagues in the P2P world. One of the main points I emphasized in Plenitude is that the transition to sustainability can be seen as a knowledge transition. This is a point that is generally not recognized in the sustainability discourse. Technologists think it’s just about a shift in shift...
"One of the key features of P2P activity, which I discuss in Plenitude, is the need for people to have sufficient time outside of their formal jobs to participate in peer production. In the United States, in much of the global South, and among certain groups in Europe, paid working hours have risen in recent decades. The demands of jobs, especially...
Juliet Schor: "There is a way forward, and I call it plenitude. The word callsattention to the inherent bounty of nature that we need to recover. Itdirects us to the chance to be rich in the things that matter to us most,and the wealth that is available in our relations with one another.Plenitude involves very different ways of living than those en...
"From the perspective of the individual, there are four principlesof plenitude. The first is a new allocation of time. For decades,Americans have devoted an increasing fraction of their time andmoney to the market—working longer hours, filling leisure time withactivities that require more income per unit of time, and buying,rather than making, more...
"We need to unpack the idea ofgrowth. This overused term lumps together two very different dynamics,only one of which is really expansion. Intensive growth means usinga fixed set of resources with greater efficiency. This productivitygrowth is rightly understood as the cornerstone of economic progress.As we begin to produce more sustainably, it’ll ...
The spectrum used for these Wi-Fi networks is mostly at 2.4 GHz and 5.2/5.3 GHz. In the US, the 5.2/5.3 band is used for both 802.11a hotspot access as well as outdoor use. The rules for these bands define a different power level and a more integrated antenna and radio than the 5.8 GHz band does.
Description WAMOTOPIA 2023: From December 16, 2023, to January 1, 2024, Wamians will jointly undertake a profound exploration of the future world, weaving a spectacular emergence, a prototype society of the future in Chiang Mai. In August 2022, a group of ...
In 2004, the United States produced 5.61 tons of carbon per person per year, while Japan, Germany and the U.K. each produced less than 3 tons. China was at 1.05 and India at 0.34. This means that to reach an equal per capita annual emission limit of 1 ton, India would be able to increase its emissions three times.
Abstract. "This paper explores a possible new local-to-global system for the equitable governance of the “common pool resources.”. As normally understood, the “Commons” refers to resources that are owned or shared among communities. Such resources (forests, fisheries, etc.) when located within national boundaries are subject to that ...
1) capital’s cooptation and subsequent prevention of a fully freed, digitally empowered general intellect; 2) capital’s continued control and exploitation of the material basis of the economy; 3) the difficulty of establishing commons-based social relations and forms of production given that value is monopolized by markets and money; and.
