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This development arises at the close of the year providing an opportune time to reflect on where we have been and are heading.</p> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer cf"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/black-oaks-center/" rel="tag">Black Oaks Center</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/blackonomics/" rel="tag">Blackonomics</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/coop-4-lib/" rel="tag">Coop 4 Lib</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/cooperative-development/" rel="tag">Cooperative Development</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/cooperative-economy-summit/" rel="tag">Cooperative Economy Summit</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/cooperatives/" rel="tag">Cooperatives</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/degrowth/" rel="tag">Degrowth</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/reflection/" rel="tag">Reflection</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/the-let-us-breathe-collective/" rel="tag">The Let Us Breathe Collective</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/the-next-system/" rel="tag">The Next System</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/timebanking/" rel="tag">Timebanking</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/year-in-review/" rel="tag">Year In Review</a> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1664" class="post-1664 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-readers-guide tag-alternative-economy tag-coproduction tag-emergent-strategies tag-mycelium tag-network tag-relationships tag-resiliency-guild-2018 tag-space tag-timebanking no-post-thumbnail"> <div class="entry-featured"> </div> <div class="entry-wrap"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/between-you-me-conversations-on-space-time-and-the-economy-of-relationships-w-lara-oppenheimer/" title="Permalink to: "Between You & Me: Conversations on Space, Time and the Economy of Relationships w/Lara Oppenheimer"">Between You & Me: Conversations on Space, Time and the Economy of Relationships w/Lara Oppenheimer</a> </h2> </header> <div class="entry-content excerpt"> <p>Editor’s Note: This article was originally written for The Literate Epoch聽in 2014 at a time when Chicago Time Exchange was experiencing a revival and is the product of a timebank trade for which I received tickets to the show. 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Philanthropy as an element of an extractive economic model values a charity downstream which does not serve to prevent people from falling into a river upstream. We need … </p> <div><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/lewis-hyde-tyranny-gift/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer cf"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/gift-economy/" rel="tag">Gift Economy</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/labor-theory-of-value/" rel="tag">Labor Theory Of Value</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/philanthropy/" rel="tag">Philanthropy</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/social-infrastructure/" rel="tag">Social Infrastructure</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/solidarity-ecosystem/" rel="tag">Solidarity Ecosystem</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/story-of-money/" rel="tag">Story of Money</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/values-before-value/" rel="tag">Values Before Value</a> </footer> </article> <article id="post-900" class="post-900 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-listeners-guide tag-complex-adaptive-systems tag-currency-of-social-structure tag-local-economy tag-mycelium tag-permaculture tag-redesign-the-money tag-resiliency-guild-2018 tag-solidarity-ecosystems tag-you-economy no-post-thumbnail"> <div class="entry-featured"> </div> <div class="entry-wrap"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/selections-money-paradox-ted-radio-hour-npr/" title="Permalink to: "Selections from The Money Paradox : TED Radio Hour : NPR"">Selections from The Money Paradox : TED Radio Hour : NPR</a> </h2> </header> <div class="entry-content excerpt"> <p>THE DESIGN OF MONEY: Whether discussing the evolutionary irrationality wired into our brains, contemplating how futured versus futureless languages change what and how we accumulate, or experimenting with the types of incentives that shift human behavior, a central premise of the episode that money is a technology capable of being iterated, upgraded, deprecated, or rendered obsolete based upon its utility … </p> <div><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/selections-money-paradox-ted-radio-hour-npr/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer cf"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/complex-adaptive-systems/" rel="tag">Complex Adaptive Systems</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/currency-of-social-structure/" rel="tag">Currency Of Social Structure</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/local-economy/" rel="tag">Local Economy</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/mycelium/" rel="tag">mycelium</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/permaculture/" rel="tag">permaculture</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/redesign-the-money/" rel="tag">Redesign The Money</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/resiliency-guild-2018/" rel="tag">Resiliency Guild 2018</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/solidarity-ecosystems/" rel="tag">Solidarity Ecosystems</a><a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/tag/you-economy/" rel="tag">You Economy</a> </footer> </article> <article id="post-831" class="post-831 post type-post status-publish format-video hentry category-viewers-guide tag-complex-adaptation tag-emergent-strategies tag-mycelium tag-network-theory tag-permaculture tag-resiliency-guild-2017 tag-social-infrastructure post_format-post-format-video no-post-thumbnail"> <div class="entry-featured"> <div class="x-video embed mvn" ><div class="x-video-inner"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2U-tOghblfE" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div> </div> <div class="entry-wrap"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"> <a href="https://kolanutcollab.org/nicholas-christakis-the-hidden-influence-of-social-networks/" title="Permalink to: "Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks"">Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks</a> </h2> </header> <div class="entry-content excerpt"> <p>“Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we’re residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network. 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