Roland: Do you have any recipes for a better world, regarding such issues as energy, environment, education or even politics? Howard: Pay attention. Practice compassion. ;-)

"A member of an archaic culture who acknowledges the limits of his own model and compares it to the one that is being formed as an alternative, from inside or outside his model, is creating.... in a positive sense, 'counter-culture.' Counter-culture is thus the active critique or transformation of the existing social, scientific or aesthetic paradigm.... It is the only cultural manifestation that a dominant culture is unable to acknowledge and accept.

Collective Action is not Collectivism

I'm not going to get into a critique of Jaron Lanier's Digital Maoism -- indeed, I agree that new notions about collective intelligence and peer production should be viewed cri

Global Gathering on the Commons Press Release By Anne MacKinnon and Charlotte Hess UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA - Recent research from all over the world offers a new approach to combating poverty and other difficult problems worldwide, an international group of scholars says. An organization of those scholars will hold a major international conference in Bali this June including a special session to make their alternative approach better known to policy-makers. Examples from all over the world show th