Useful Links

Links

• Australian Earth Laws Alliance
  Australian Earth Laws Alliance - AELA is committed to supporting the creation of thriving local economies, dominated by small scale enterprises and community initiatives that nurture the Earth community.  [8 Jan 2017 - fb likes = 2,871] …
• Avaaz.org
  Avaaz.org -  meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere… …
• bHive
  bHive - a new cooperative for Bendigo, an online platform that will allow local enterprises and people to own Bendigo’s sharing economy. Likely enterprises supported by bHive include car sharing, bike sharing, stuff sharing, peer-to-peer energy, skill… …
• Calafou
  Calafou - since its inception, the intent is to develop a network based on a network of cooperatives, individual projects and housing in a collectivised area.This seeks to facilitate the sharing of ideas, goods and resources to foster synergies in a… …
• Centre of Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
  Centre of Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance - a research centre of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia. [3 Feb 2017 - no fb page] …
• Cicada
  Cicada- Breakthrough decentralized application and distributed direct democracy platform [14 Apr 2017 - no fb page] Delivers anonymous, un-riggable, end-to-end verifiable voting Delivers a practical Universal Basic Income (UBI) Solves the… …
• Collaborative Consumption
  Collaborative Consumption - The collaborative consumption movement has truly become a global phenomenon. After more than 800 posts spanning five years, covering the collaborative consumption movement from its inception, we will no longer be adding new… …
• Collaborative Economy Library
  Collaborative Economy Library - Curating the highest-quality research being done on the collaborative economy. [ 4 Mar 2017 - no fb page] …
• Common Good Forum
  Common Good Forum - As a Bridge-Builder, the Common Good Forum brings together Thinkers and Practitioners for Innovative Commons-Based Solution - 1. to facilitate exchange of information and best practices and build synergy between local civil society… …
• Commons Transition
  Commons Transition - The Commons Transition Platform is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. [12 Jan 2017 - fb likes = 2,747] …
• Commons Transition Coalition
  Commons Transition Coalition - (Melbourne/Aust?) aims to connect leaders of groups, organisations and enterprises that support commons-based initiatives. [29 Jan 2017 - fb likes = 124] …
• Community Economies Collective
  The Community Economies Collective (CEC) and the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) are international collaborative networks of researchers who share an interest in theorizing, discussing, representing and ultimately enacting new visions of… …
• Community Exchange Systems
  Community Exchange Systems - A World Free of Money - There are many ways of exchanging what we have and can do for the things we need. Money is just one of them. The internet revolution has brought us new ways without the unnecessary step of acquiring… …
• Community-Wealth.org
  Community-Wealth.org - Few Americans are aware of the steady build-up of innovative community wealth building strategies throughout the United States. Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of… …
• Democracy Collaborative
  Democracy Collaborative - Through our cutting edge research and our many diverse programs, The Democracy Collaborative works to carry out a vision of a new economic system where shared ownership and control creates more equitable and inclusive outcomes,… …
• Democracy Earth
  Democracy Earth - Become Sovereign. With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no longer necessary. We are building Sovereign, a protocol with smart contracts that allows decentralized governance for any… …
• Doing It Ouselves
  Doing It Ourselves (DIO) - engages the broader community to talk about the harmful systems in society, encourage resistance against them, and inspire people to take part in empowering alternatives... because they do exist! We want to live in a world… …
• Duniter Project
  Duniter Project - a free currency system. A project to implement Basic Income through Libre Currencies. To a libre economy.  (And the site for their Cesium Application) [19 Mar 2017 - fb page likes = 176] …
• Earthworker Cooperative
  Earthworker Cooperative - brings together people on common ground for direct action, to solve the social and environmental, problems faced by local communities, and the planet. Earthworker is working to provide local, sustainable, wealth-creating jobs… …
• Economy for the Common Good
  Economy for the Common Good (and http://movement.ecogood.org/)- an alternative economic system built on values that promote the needs of the entire population. It is a tool for economic, political, and social change – a bridge to a better future. [28… …
• Enspiral
  Enspiral - More people working on stuff that matters - Collaboration, autonomy, transparency, diversity, entrepreneurialism, non-hierarchy A vision to make the world a better place through meaningful work. Diverse professionals drawn together by shared… …
• Evonomics
  Evonomics - Ideas change the world, for better and for worse. And with the exception of religion, perhaps no ideas are as powerful as economic ideas. Think Adam Smith. Marx, Hayek, Keynes, a host of others. In the political sphere: FDR. Deng Xiaoping.… …
• FabLabs and Fab Foundation
  FabLabs and Fab Foundation - Formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations. The Fab Foundation is a US non-profit 501(c) 3 organization… …
• Fair Coop
  Fair Coop - Earth’s cooperative for economic fairness - an open global cooperative, self-organized via the Internet and remaining outside nation-state control. Its aim is to make the transition to a new world by reducing the economic and social… …
• Fairmondo
  Fairmondo.de and Fairmondo.uk- Fairmondo is the project to create a global online-marketplace - owned by its local users. This will be realized through a network of autonomous local co-operatives in every country that joins in. We seek to rethink and… …
• FairShares
  FairShares - The association for multi-stakeholder co-operation in member-owned social enterprises. FairShares is a brand and development model for self-governing social enterprises operating under Association, Co-operative and Company Law. It offers a… …
• Friends with things
  Friends with Things - Connect with your neighbors. Borrow things from them or share things with them. Share skills, expertise, local knowledge and more. It’s about collaborative consumption, sustainability and neighborhood and it’s free. [4 Mar 2017 -… …
• Global Alliance for Banking on Values
  Global Alliance for Banking on Values - a network of banking leaders from around the world committed to advancing positive change in the banking sector. Our collective goal is to change the banking system so that it is more transparent, supports… …
• Global Hub for the Common Good
  Global Hub for the Common Good - an open and participative think tank made up of people/organisations around the world that share the Vision to “co-create a new political, economic and social system aimed at the global common good”. We call it "think… …
• GNH Centre Bhutan
  GNH Centre Bhutan - Gross National Happiness, or GNH, is a holistic and sustainable approach to development, which balances material and non-material values with the conviction that humans want to search for happiness. The objective of GNH is to achieve… …
• Green Agenda
  Green Agenda - A collection of articles and opinion pieces providing "an opportunity to explore new ideas and opportunities for the left in an ever unstable world, linking these both with contemporary debates and left-wing theory". [3 Feb 2017 - fb page… …
• Happy Planet Index
  Happy Planet Index - An initiative of the New Economics Foundation which measures what matters: sustainable wellbeing for all. It tells us how well nations are doing at achieving long, happy, sustainable lives. Wealthy Western countries, often seen as… …
• Impact Hub
  Impact Hub - Impact cannot happen in isolation. It requires collective action. Impact Hubs make up a global network of people, places, and programs that inspire, connect and catalyze impact.  Impact Hubs are where change goes to work. Part innovation… …
• Initiatives of Change
  Initiatives of Change - a world-wide movement of people of diverse cultures and backgrounds, who are committed to the transformation of society through changes in human motives and behaviour, starting with their own. [27 Jan 2017 - no fb page] …
• Institute for Solidarity Economics
  Institute for Solidarity Economics - (UK based) formed to promote Solidarity Economics (SE) and the Solidarity Economy Movement (SEM). Its purpose is to commission and conduct research in SE, to raise awareness of the SEM among the general public and… …
• Ithaca Hours and Ithacash
  Ithaca Hours - Here in Ithaca, New York, we've begun to gain control of the social and environmental effects of commerce by issuing over $110,000 of our own local paper money, since 1991. Thousands of purchases and many new friendships have been made… …
• LabGov
  LabGov - LabGov was created, on the impulse of the LUISS Guido Carli Department of Political Science to train a brand-new breed of professionals, the “experts in the governance of urban commons.” These are young women and men able to create forms of… …
• LibreTaxi
  LibreTaxi - Free and open source alternative to Uber/Lyft connecting passengers and drivers. LibreTaxi makes ridesharing affordable by getting rid of the third party between passengers and drivers. Negotiate the price before the ride is confirmed, pay… …
• Lift Economy
  Lift Economy - consulting agency - mission is to create, model, and share a locally self-reliant economy that works for the benefit of all life--one that meets the needs for all people everywhere while enhancing and regenerating the ecosystems within… …
• Living Economies Educational Trust
  Living Economies Educational Trust - an educational network (NZ based) promoting systems of exchange that foster community wellbeing. We aim to strengthen and help sustain regional economies by promoting interest-free means of exchange - currencies… …
• Local Futures
  Local Futures - Economics of Happiness - To protect and renew ecological and social well being by promoting a systemic shift away from economic globalization towards localization. Through its “education for action” programs, Local Futures develops… …
• MiVote
  MiVote - an information platform that presents you with a variety of perspectives on all major issues up for debate in the Australian Parliament and many others that affect our lives, via the MiVote App. The MiVote App enables you to make an informed,… …
• Moneyless Society
  Moneyless Society - Our Goal is to provide an open information source and platform, and bring together organizations, people, ideas, and communities to collaborate, with the intention of transitioning to a world without money, where technology is implemented fully and all resources needed to sustain life are abundant to all individuals. [31 Jan 2017 - fb likes 2,943] …
• Mutual Aid Networks
  Mutual Aid Networks - a new type of networked cooperative creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community. Through the HUMANs (Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, formerly the Main MAN),… …
• Network of Wellbeing
  Network of Wellbeing - (UK/Totnes based) committed to holistic wellbeing. We believe that a person’s wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of the community in which they live and work, while the wellbeing of their community depends on the wellbeing of… …
• New Earth
  New Earth - the new earth nation portal is the centre of coordination for the self-organisation of new earth nation by you its members. we offer a central networking platform to all people to support the creation and development of sustainable,… …
• New Economics Foundation
  New Economics Foundation - There has never been a greater need for a new economy. The New Economics Foundation exists to make it happen. We’re rooted in real lives, workplaces and communities. We equip people with the tools they need to take action,… …
• New Economy Coalition
  New Economy Coalition - The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in… …
• New Economy Network Australia (NENA)
  New Economy Network Australia (NENA) - is an emerging network, created at the 2016 ‘Building the New Economy’ conference held in Sydney.  NENA is being created to support the fantastic work being done by individuals and organisations around Australia,… …
• New Economy Organisers Network
  New Economy Organisers Network (NEON) - an independent network of activists working for an economy based on social and environmental justice. [26 Jan 2017 - no fb page] …
• NewStories.org
  NewStories.org - a 501(c)(3) educational organization incorporated in the state of Washington. We serve as a collaboratory of people and a constellation of projects gathered around a central flame of nurturing the emergence of new stories for who we are… …
• One Community
  One Community - One Community is a 100% volunteer-operated non-profit and non-governmental organization creating open source resources and solutions for all aspects of sustainable and globally regenerative living. [31 Jan 2017 - fb likes = 5,892] …
• Open Source Ecology
  Open Source Ecology - The mission of Open Source Ecology (OSE) is to create the open source economy.  An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set… …
• Open Value Network
  Open Value Network - A shared hub for an evolving and growing ecosystem - It has become apparent that the development and promotion of the OVN model of production and other alternatives for distributed organizations requires a focused effort by the… …
• OuiShare
  OuiShare - THE THINK AND BE-TANK FOR A COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY. OuiShare connects people and accelerates projects for systemic change. We experiment with social models based on collaboration, openness, and fairness. Our mission is to build and nurture a… …
• P2P Foundation
  P2P Foundation - The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is "Together we know everything,… …
• Parecon
  Parecon - short for Participatory Economics - is a vision for how to conduct economic affairs consistent with liberatory values including solidarity, diversity, equity, self management, ecological sustainability, peace, and classlessness. [18 Jan 2017 -… …
• Participedia
  Participedia - "Strengthen democracy through shared knowledge" - a website with case studies from around the world on projects undertaking participatory and deliberative democracy. [6 Feb 2017 - fb page likes = 1,953] …
• Platform Cooperativism
  Platform Cooperativism - As a growing movement facing the tsunami of low-wage work, platform cooperativism maps new terrain: it is about the convergence of 21st-century technologies and the rich, global heritage of cooperativism. The platform co-op eco… …
• Platform Cooperativism Consortium
  Platform Cooperativism Consortium - supports the cooperative platform economy through research, experimentation, education, advocacy, documentation of best practices, technical support, the coordination of funding, and events. Built upon the concept of… …
• Pollen.world
  Pollen.world - digital currencies for communities - the economy made by people.  [17 Apr 2017 - no fb page] …
• Post Growth Institute
  Post Growth Institute - Post Growth is a catalyst for identifying, inspiring and implementing new approaches to global well-being.  We are an international network of people committed to tackling the cause, rather than the symptoms, of a myriad of… …
• Project Dèmos
  Project Dèmos - (demos meaning people) is about freedom and empowerment through technology. We know there is a much more efficient way to communicate, organize, and co-create on a worldwide basis, and therefore believe the time has come to update… …
• RBEM Wiki
  RBEM Wiki - a website devoted to collecting and sharing objective and empirical information about the Resource-Based Economic Model (RBEM), originally described by Jacque Fresco. It also welcomes its use by any movements, projects and supporting groups… …
• Reconomy
  Reconomy - Give the money back to the people - Competition for low prices is the principle driver of irresponsible development and corrupt stewardship around the world, because it punishes the conscientious and empowers the unscrupulous, with the… …
• Rethinking Economics
  Rethinking Economics - an international network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom. Through a mixture of campaigning, events and engaging projects, Rethinking Economics connects people… …
• Ride Austin
  Ride Austin - AUSTIN HAS A CHOICE:  WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS OR TAKE ACTION TO CREATE OUR OWN SOLUTIONS - Ridesharing is valuable to all citizens, empowers drivers and riders, saves lives and is part of any transportation future. The… …
• RIPESS
  RIPESS - a network of continental networks that connects social solidarity economy networks throughout the world. The continental networks (RIPESS-LAC, RIPESS-EU, RIPESS-NA, RAESS and ASEC) in turn bring together national and sectoral networks. RIPESS… …
• RSA - The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
  RSA - The mission of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) is to enrich society through ideas and action. We believe that all human beings have creative capacities that, when understood and supported, can be… …
• Schumacher Center for a New Economics
  Schumacher Center for a New Economics - To educate the public about an economics that supports both people and the planet. We believe that a fair and sustainable economy is possible and that citizens working for the common interest can build systems to… …
• Sensorica
  Sensorica - The first commons-based peer production network focused in hardware development, production and distribution on the world, created in early 2011. Sensorica is partially a market-based economy and partially a gift economy. For the first part,… …
• Shareable
  Shareable - an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. [8 Jan 2017 - fb page likes = 45,742] …
• ShareTraveler
  ShareTraveler - a place to find information about lodging alternatives for those who want to travel cheaply - new sharing economy services that are useful for travel: transportation, food tourism, local guides, and other resources. [28 Feb 2017, fb page… …
• Simbi
  Simbi - Keep your money - It's no good here. The economy isn’t working for 99% of us, so we’re building a new one. By joining Simbi you’re accepting a new lifestyle, one of symbiotic exchange, abundance, and human capital. Together, our talents are… …
• Smart CSOs Lab
  Smart CSOs Lab - an international network of civil society leaders*, researchers** and funders aiming to develop and put into practice strategies that embrace the cultural and systemic root causes lying behind the social and environmental crises of our… …
• Smart Urban Villages
  Smart Urban Villages - The team are proudly pioneering a new urban housing development model to create next generation sustainable communities. After a decade of exploring sustainable living models globally, we have developed a solution which combines… …
• Social Progress Indexes
  Social Progress Indexes - A new way to define what it means to be a successful community. The Social Progress Index is based on a range of social and environmental outcome indicators organized within three dimensions of social progress: Basic Human… …
• Stir to Action
  Stir to Action - a community organisation that publishes a quarterly magazine, runs workshop programmes and short courses, produces how-to resources for setting up co-operatives and community enterprises, commissions original artwork and facilitates… …
• Sustainable Communities
  Sustainable Communities - developed to help communities across Europe interact with each other, get inspired by real life stories of action elsewhere and keep up to date with what’s going on. European policy makers recognise that grass roots initiatives… …
• Swarm City
  Swarm City - the first truly decentralized peer to peer economy, enabled by the SWT token, running on the Ethereum blockchain. [18 Jan 2017 - fb group members = 2,736] …
• TESS (Towards European Societal Sustainability)
  TESS (Towards European Societal Sustainability) was a European research project active from November 2013 to November 2016, which explored the role of community based initiatives in creating a sustainable, low-carbon Europe. We aimed to contribute to… …
• The Auravana Project
  The Auravana Project - The Auravana Project exists to co-create the emergence of community through the openly shared design, construction, and operation of a socio-economically unified network of integrated city systems in which purposefully driven… …
• The Converging World
  The Converging World - We are all connected - Our vision is of a converging world where everyone has access to the resources they need, within the limits of our planet's capacity. We believe that many of the big world issues such as climate change,… …
• The Internet of Ownership
  The Internet of Ownership - The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy. Its purpose is to advance platform cooperativism—a vision for online platforms that share democratic ownership and governance among the… …
• The Metacurrency Project
  The Metacurrency Project - Building the tools & technology platform to open source the next economy -CEPTR -- P2P management of value & currencies which embody and account for value. [10 Feb 2017 - fb page likes = 1,387] …
• The Next System
  The Next System - THERE ARE REAL ALTERNATIVES We can create the kind of society—and world—we’d like now and for future generations. The Next System Project is an ambitious multi-year initiative aimed at thinking boldly about what is required to deal… …
• The Open Coop
  The Open Coop - founded in 2004 with the purpose of “building a world-wide community of individuals and organisations committed to the creation of a collaborative, sustainable economy”.  The idea was to help people collaborate and co-opareate on a… …
• The Real Economy Lab
  The Real Economy Lab - The Real Economy Lab provides an interactive platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of the new economy movement can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action. [22 Jan 2017… …
• The Rules
  The Rules is a worldwide network of activists, artists, writers, farmers, peasants, students, workers, designers, hackers, spiritualists and dreamers, linking up, pushing the global narrative in a new direction. We’re tired of the incremental reforms.… …
• The Seasteading Institute
  The Seasteading Institute - The technology to foster the fluid mechanics of voluntary societies is at hand. The Seasteading Institute is a nonprofit think-tank working to provide a machinery of freedom to choose new societies on the blue frontier. The… …
• The Venus Project
  The Venus Project- Beyond Poverty, Politics and War - an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change, one that works towards a peaceful and sustainable global civilization. It outlines an alternative to strive toward where… …
• The Zeitgeist Movement
  The Zeitgeist Movement - Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media… …
• TransforMap
  TransforMap - works towards an online platform to visualize the myriad of alternatives to the dominant economic thinking on a single mapping system. It will give everyone the opportunity to map the initiatives, communities, projects, worker-owned,… …
• Transition Network
  Transition Network - a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. [3 Feb 2017 - fb page likes 20,333] …
• Trustroots
  Trustroots- Travellers' community - Sharing, hosting and getting people together.  We want a world that encourages trust, adventure and intercultural connections.  Our willingness to help each other should not be monetized. Trustroots is completely free… …
• Upstream Podcast
  Upstream Podcast - Here at Upstream, we look at economics a bit differently. Forget everything you associate with ECON 101: all the jargon about supply and demand, the mathematics, the indecipherable theories. Of course, there's a place for all that… …
• Wheel Of Well-Being
  Wheel Of Well-Being - designed in 2008 as part of a Big Lottery Well London’s programme. It is an ongoing collaboration between the Mental Health Promotion Team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Uscreates. Our work is currently… …
• Youtube results for 'Sharing Economy'
  Youtube results for 'Sharing Economy' …