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.
New economy
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.