“Environmentalists argue that we are actually approaching and
overstepping material limits to growth and the “carrying capacity” of
the planet’s ecological systems. Meanwhile the mainstream argues that
we don’t need to worry about any such things because technology and
human ingenuity will see us through – so that growth can continue
indefinitely into the future….” Brian Davey

Recommended Texts
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We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Only Fundamental Change
Can Save Us – Maude Barlow
http://www.alternet.org/story/148519/?page=entire

Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
http://pwccc.wordpress.com/programa/

The Non Tragedy of the Commons
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/the-non-tragedy-of-the-commons/

Elinor Ostrom wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/economy/13nobel.html

Imagining a New Politics of the Commons – David Bolier
http://onthecommons.org/imagining-new-politics-commons

How does the idea of p2p / commonism differ from the socialist
tradition? – Michel Bauwens
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-does-the-idea-of-p2p-commonism-differ-from-the-socialist-tradition/2010/08/31

Video – Commons Lecture by Paul Hartzog
http://www.archive.org/details/HowardRheingoldIFTFStanfordHumanitiesLabPaulHartzog

Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
http://fcforum.net/
Knowledge Commons

Chris Martensons ‘Crash Course’
http://www.chrismartenson.com/
Connecting the dots…

Dialogue between Environmental Commons and Knowledge Commons Advocates
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Beware of Fake Abundance – Brian Davey
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/brian-davey-beware-of-fake-abundance/2010/11/13

Response to Brian Davey of Feasta: How Immaterial Abundance can assist
a Steady State Economy – Michel Bauwens
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/response-to-brian-davey-of-feasta-how-immaterial-abundance-can-assist-a-steady-state-economy/2010/11/14

Key Topics and Useful Links
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The limits of Growth – The Club of Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/about/4/
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World Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

Hans Rosling Ted talk on population growth
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

Population Growth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98JmQ0Cc3k

Peak Oil Primer
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
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Peak Oil Links
http://www.postcarbon.org/
http://www.theoildrum.com/

United Nations Convention on Climate Change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change

Kyoto Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

Cop 15 – 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

Cap and Trade
Emmisions Trading – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading

Cap and Share
http://www.capandshare.org/

Cap and Dividend
http://www.capanddividend.org/

P2P Foundation
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/

On The Commons
http://onthecommons.org/

Open Source Ecology
http://openfarmtech.org/

World Changing
http://www.worldchanging.com/
Environmental News

Yale 360
http://e360.yale.edu/
Environmental News

The Story of Stuff
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Transition Towns
http://transitionculture.org
Lifeboats and resilient communities
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Permaculture
http://permaculture.org.au

Appropriate Technology
http://www.appropedia.org

Dark Mountain
http://www.dark-mountain.net/
A cultural response to the environmental crisis

CHIEF SEATTLE’S 1854 ORATION
http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/chiefsea.html

RSA Arts and Ecology
http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/

Environmental Art
http://greenmuseum.org/

Art and Renewable Technologies
http://renewable.rixc.lv/

Recyclism
http://www.recyclism.com

Sustainability and Contemporary Art
http://artandsustainability.wordpress.com/

Wunderkammer a Journal of Environmental Art
http://www.environmentalartblog.com

Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/

Self Repair Manifesto
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-self-repair-manifesto/2010/11/15/ifixit_manifesto_900x1390