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Globalisation Increases Cooperation at an International Scale | Seed ScienceBlogs
Globalisation breeds cosmopolitan attitudes, not insular ones.
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Yochai Benkler: The End of Universal Rationality | Edge
People systematically and predictably behave in ways that are much more cooperative than would be predicted.
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Jeffrey Sachs on Global Cooperation
Suppose we knew the technical answers. How do we get to the global change that's necessary?
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Tim Flannery: Montreal Protocol Day
The agreement on the Montreal Protocol represents a moment in history of great significance.
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The Tragedy of Climate Commons | RealClimate
Imagine a group of 100 fisherman faced with declining stocks and worried about the sustainability of their resource and their livelihoods. Clearly, fairness demands that the top catchers lead the way in moving towards a more sustainable future.
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Elinor Ostrom: Boundary Rules and Governance
The role of trust and reciprocity is crucial to people getting in and either cooperating in a harvest situation or, more importantly, trying to decide what kind of rules they want to design for themselves.
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Bell, Richerson and McElreath: Culture, Genetics and Altruism | PNAS
Socially learned behavior and belief are much better candidates than genetics to explain the self-sacrificing behavior we see among strangers in societies, from soldiers to blood donors to those who contribute to food banks.
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Peter Kollock Remembered - Markets, Currencies and Cooperation
As remarkable as the products of online cooperation and collaboration have been, it may be that for the most part we have been picking the “lowest hanging fruit” – supplying interesting digital goods that can be provided by single individuals while ignoring duller, more complex, but no less useful public goods.
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Michael Tomasello: Why We Cooperate
I do not believe altruism is the process primarily responsible for human cooperation. … The star is mutualism.
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Yochai Benkler: After Selfishness
Now that we know that social production is here, how do we begin to harness it? How do we begin to think in a stable way about how to structure relations that integrate the social with the productive and that build a more realistic model of human motivation and human action, than those in the past have dominated our systems for organizing production?
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Alex Evans, Bruce Jones, David Steven: From Risk to Resilience
A society must be resilient in two ways: it needs to deliver lasting benefits from cooperation (functional resilience), but it must also stimulate the will to cooperate, thus ensuring its own structural integrity and durability (formal resilience).
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Rob Hopkins: Transition as a Pattern Language
I am taking the original Transition model and throwing it up in the air, using A Pattern Language as a way of recommunicating and reshaping it.
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Architecture of the Commons | Heinrich Boll Foundation
The idea of the commons is inconceivable without it being linked to people engaged with each other to manage a resource in specific social milieus.
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Matthew Stadler: Between City and Countryside | Oregon Humanities
How can we finally leave the long, divisive story of the city and the countryside behind us?
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The Commons as an Engine for Innovation
The most innovative thing we can do is to step out of the market paradigm and begin to develop different ways of relating to each other and to the Earth.
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Spencer Beebe: The Magic Canoe | TEDxPortland
Ecotrust President Spencer Beebe wraps up the first TEDxPortland with the story of the magic canoe.
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