A propos #LibraryEconomy : ich empfehle die Graphothek im Märkischen Viertel (hab ein Bild von Eduardo Paolozzi und eins von Kurt Mühlenhaupt ausgeliehen)

As a big #Library fan, this seems to me as one of the best ideas ever for a sustainable egalitary future.
Which is not at all utopian or far fetched, but could be implemented little by little even today:

https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk

#libraryEconomy
#climateJustice
#anarchism

I think the reason I love solarpunk so much is twofold:

1. Solarpunk recognizes that our environment plays a huge role in our we survive. Adapting to our environment and working with nature not only protects us but also keeps the environment thriving for future generations. Technology is only used to assist people and the environment - not for profit.

2. Solarpunk definitely has a degrowth sort of approach to the economy. How society is rebuilt in a solarpunk world tends toward anarchist communes, participatory economies, library economies, and anti-capitalist modes of existence. Solarpunk is perfect for what Arturo Escobar calls the Pluriverse (taken from the Zapatistas of Chiapas description of a better world).

These ideas heavily influence how I build Elivera, my world-building project (that is the setting for majority of my stories).

I wrote a manifesto of my Solarpunk ideas here: https://cohost.org/TheBirdWrites/post/859437-my-solarpunk-ethos

What are your thoughts on solarpunk, fellow Mastodonians?

#Solarpunk #RandomThoughts #Degrowth #Anarchism #ParticipatoryEconomy #Pluriverse #LibraryEconomy

The Rise of Tool Lending #Libraries

https://inthesetimes.com/article/tool-lending-library-alternative-economy
@inthesetimesmag #sharing #libraryeconomy #countereconomics

Continuing down the thought thread of connecting ecovillages or federated communities into a common tech stack. This time about #libraryeconomy and #librarysocialism, and how communities might be able to request and offer goods and services without the need for monetary exchange, and in a way that kinda follows a library of everything approach to things.

A big thing I see in subverting capitalism, and building new forms of living and organizing, is by decommodifying as much as we can. A great way to do that is to look at meeting people's basic needs, and having a way for people to both ask for something, and give something, without paying money. I guess it comes down to social capital, but I don't really like that term, and it fits better with the term gift economy anyways. In some forms it can be mutual aid, other times it can just be meeting a need when it comes up.

The concrete "how" on doing this might look like timebanks. I really like the software from timebanks.org though it doesn't have a self host option and requires an internet connection. Locally to me https://denton.timebanks.org is a great example where people can offer things, and request things as well. So it can be a very quick way of seeing the needs of people, and trying to meet those needs.

In terms of lending libraries, there isn't anything so far that I found that is free and open source that can handle things well. Most of the FOSS stuff is related to libraries. https://koha-community.org/ is a good example of this. I wish there was a way to have a library of things as well (though I guess with some finessing you could make it work)

I think it would be awesome to have the two combined, in the way that timebanks works, where people can request and offer things, combined with a more concrete way of tracking what has been lent to who.

Different communities could have their own internal sharing sites, on their own internal intranet-networks. But also they can connect, federate or be interoperable with other communities as a whole. So if a request in the community net is there, an offer can be found to meet that need. That way each community maintains their autonomy, while also being well-connected with the world at large and able to help move resources around. It would be great to have something that combines these ideas together in one place to make it alot easier, and also have it free and open source, so anyone can use it.

It's the start of an idea at least. It might be a good place to start for a real world #solarpunk experiment, of federated, interconnected communities that use technology as a way to connect with others, while organizing things horizontally and equitably, while maintaining a balance with the ecosystem by making bioregional+permaculture+indegenous knowledge led ecovillages.

We Need A Library Economy (26m55s)
https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk

It's pretty clear that capitalism isn't working great, but I've seen few concrete proposals for alternatives. I liked this video because it proposes a practical starting point. We can start building libraries *now*, without waiting for an electoral majority or a revolution that may never happen. We can start making mistakes and learning from them now, figuring out what problems make this difficult and how to solve them.

#LibraryEconomy

"Our obsession with economic growth is deadly"

Can we stop this obsession about owning stuff? Let's push and fight for a #LibraryEconomy

https://yewtu.be/v/KLiXmteCvUI

#degrowth #anticapitalism #consumerism #plannedobsolescence

"Our obsession with economic growth is deadly"

Can we stop this obsession about owning stuff? Let's push and fight for a #LibraryEconomy

yewtu.be/v/KLiXmteCvUI

#degrowth #anticapitalism #consumerism #plannedobsolescence

Gonna be updating the autonomous digital libraries with a new repo with all the setup files and an automated script to quickly get everything up and running!

This will make it alot easier for people to make portable digital library servers that create their own Wifi network, and also host digital books.

Also got inspired by andrewism's video about Library Economies and updated the #Solarpunk book repository as well.

This is an extension of the Banned Book Library project, but I also wanted to make it pretty apparent that anyone can pick this up and modify things to make any kind of autonomous library!
Once the new repo drops I'll let y'all and Twitter know.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/bannedbooklibrary

#library-economy #libraryeconomy #bannedbooks #censoredbooks #informationwantstobefree #fuckcensorship #anarchy #directaction #autonomoustech #autonomoustechnology #anarchisttechnology

Gonna be updating the autonomous digital libraries with a new repo with all the setup files and an automated script to quickly get everything up and running!

This will make it alot easier for people to make portable digital library servers that create their own Wifi network, and also host digital books.

Also got inspired by andrewism's video about Library Economies and updated the #Solarpunk book repository as well.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1up1sVOsX3Hbz7eME0s7-Ie8iI6Nm-nS4/view

This is an extension of the Banned Book Library project, but I also wanted to make it pretty apparent that anyone can pick this up and modify things to make any kind of autonomous library!
Once the new repo drops I'll let y'all and Twitter know.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/bannedbooklibrary

#library-economy #libraryeconomy #bannedbooks #censoredbooks #informationwantstobefree #fuckcensorship #anarchy #directaction #autonomoustech #autonomoustechnology #anarchisttechnology

The ideas we need to create a better world for everyone are already around us.
Please imagine if we moved to a #LibraryEconomy like the one Andrew describes in this video.
We just need to choose this path and work together to make it real. #Solarpunk futures are possible.
Watch "We Need A Library Economy" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk