As more states enact and implement legal marijuana programs, there is a growing urgency for federal policy change to ensure that states regulate as responsibly and safely as possible.
MoneyLab #3: Arthur Röing Baer. Cooperatives and the Commons
There is fresh interest in initiating and maintaining a digital commons to provide vital restbite against the wave on demand mobile apps and share economy services. This can be witnessed in tech start-ups and entrepreneurs shifting towards a co-operative business model, in what has been named as platform co-operavatism. The introduction of unions and crowd-owned companies, not only attempt to secure some stability for the precarious worker in the digital economy but also attempt to move towards a more circular economy over the dominant extractive monopolies such as Uber and Air’n’b. The pl...
Conversation avec Bernard Stiegler : « Faire de Plaine Commune en Seine-Saint-Denis le premier terri...
Le philosophe nous présente le projet éducatif qu’il initie en Seine-Saint-Denis. Au programme, entre autres objectifs inédits, des actions de recherche contributive associant habitants et thésards.
A series of “superblocks” underpin a forward-thinking and pedestrian-oriented urban design strategy being deployed in Barcelona. These innovative block configurations are designed to reduce car-relate...
Portugal has announced the world's first nationwide participatory budget | Apolitical
Portugal has announced the world’s first participatory budget on a national scale. The project will let people submit ideas for what the government should spend its money on, and then vote on which...
Why we need to bring back the art of communal bathing – Jamie Mackay | Aeon Ideas
For most of the history of our species, in most parts of the world, bathing has been a collective act. In ancient Asia, the practice was a religious ritual believed to have medical benefits related to the purification of the soul and body. For the...
Soigner la ville par l’acupuncture urbaine - Demain La Ville - Bouygues Immobilier
L’acupuncture appliquée aux villes. L’idée fait son chemin depuis 2005, notamment grâce au collectif Rebar, basé à San Francisco, et grâce à Jaime Lerner, architecte urbaniste brésilien. L’acupuncture...