Building the energy commons: Marcus Saul of Island Power
Interview with Marcus Saul of Island Power, an energy company with incredible ideas that could be world-changing, in terms of building a new kind of (commons) economy.
My journey from nuclear physics to mutual credit: Tom Woodroof of Mutual Credit Services
This is Part 1 of a conversation between Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org and Tom Woodroof of Mutual Credit Services, who made the shift from the world of nuclear physics to the world of mutual credit.
Two planks – and a bridge – to the new economy
The ‘New Economy’ discussed here is not a proposition for radical discontinuity, and still less an artefact of wishful thinking. Whatever the urgency of a transition to an economy that interacts healthily with the biosphere, no proposition for this transition can succeed that does not present as a beneficial ‘adjacent possible’ for some significant fraction of the billions of pragmatic economic choices that are made each day by people with perfectly reasonable desires for security, dignity, and agency.
Building a new economy around the Credit Commons
Matthew Slater co-drafted the Credit Commons white paper, a proposal for a global solidarity economy money system, based on mutual credit principles. Here he outlines the kind of thinking that has required to escape ‘the Machine’ and build a new economy around the Credit Commons.
The future of money is mutual credit: Interview with Thomas Greco
We thought it fitting to lauch this blog with an interview with the originator of the term ‘Credit Commons’. Thomas Greco taught economics, finance and statistics for 14 years at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and is now an activist and consultant working on alternatives to the current money system. He also wrote the End of Money and the Future of Civilisation.