Rift

11/26/2011

"Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies" Wyspa Institute of Art (Ed.), English/Polish, 240 pp., 2007

11/23/2011

Nice overview on service>product and more.

The emerging service economy will require some fundamental restructuring of business and society. The organizations that got us to this point have bee

11/22/2011

H.G. "Skip" Brack salvages tools from all over New England to resell at affordable prices, in an effort to support his local economy and craftsmen. Read the full Etsy blog post: http://etsy.me/libertytool

10/03/2011

Also, the Guggenheim Lab has a couple of relevant events on Wednesday. http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/whats-happening/calendar/event/film-screening-end-of-suburbia-?instance_id=165

As consumers, we move through the world in a very particular manner. Our habits of consumption shape our cities, our bodies, and our thoughts. Is it possible to map new habits and ways of being in the city? How can sensing our environment activate nonconsumer patterns? What are the bodily and enviro...

10/03/2011

Juliet Schor discusses several ideas we are working on at RIFT. She'll be speaking Friday and Jason and I will be there to listen. Join us: http://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/whats-happening/calendar/event/juliet-schor?instance_id=489

This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy.

10/01/2011

Greeks squeezed by wage cuts, tax increases and growing fears about the euro have looked for creative ways to cope with a radically changing economic landscape.

09/27/2011

A global culture of consumerism has firmly taken hold – the average British woman buys half her body weight in clothing every year; a typical American purchases more stuff every day than an average American weighs; more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in the US in 2009; and the ...

09/06/2011

We can now say with some certainty that one advantage of the Cold War was that it placed many of the complexities and contradictions of economic problems within a clear and singular binary between capitalism and communism. On top of that, arguments in favor of one or the other had massive geopolitic...

08/17/2011

Is this dragged-out downturn an opportunity to make the U.S. economy stronger, or to rethink American work life?

07/20/2011

The next social and industrial order has more to do with abundance and trust than with scarcity and stickiness. The key assets are trusted relationships.