We want to build cultural, economic and legal incentives into our organizations that makes longevity the stable-state goal and an 'exit' unattractive or even impossible.
Muni projects always look for ways to funnel any excess profits right back into the open source ecosystem which we are building on top of.
That’s a core tenet of post-growth entrepreneurship.
TED - Melanie Rieback
Melanie Rieback: Post-Growth Entrepreneurship
For more information on Melanie Rieback, please visit our website www.tedxberlin.de.
For a persuasive rendition of the world-as-it-is when seen through the lense of post-growth, this animated series on ‘The Great Simplification’ provides an introductory model.
TGS as a living community resource provides a re-educational framework grounded in post-growth:
The Great Simplification
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here.
The through-line of post-growth movements and ideologies is their shared ideal of non-extractive practices.
The trick is make all *things* in a non-extractive manner.
Non-extractive organizations pursue systemic health by setting objectives that contribute to the communities in which they operate. They are conscious of the various ways they impact upon people and the planet and make this explicit in their weighing of interests.
Wealth
Intros (5-15 mins)
TED - Kate Raworth
Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.
DEAL Community Platform
About Doughnut Economics | DEAL
Meet the Doughnut and the concepts at the heart of Doughnut Economics.
Books (4-24 hrs)
worldaftercapital
The World After Capital
The World After Capital by Albert Wenger