[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Josef Davies-Coates]

I really like these Schumacher Breifings:

Ecovillages
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ecovillages-Frontiers-Sustainability-Schumacher-Briefing/dp/1903998778

Gaian Democracies
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gaian-Democracies-Schumacher-Briefing-Madron/dp/190399828X

Bioregional Solutions
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bioregional-Solutions-Living-Schumacher-Briefing/dp/1903998077

All highly recommended. Especially the first two :)

Josef.


2008/10/3 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

> Kevin, Joseph, Eric:
>
> would it at all possible to get some bibliographic help from you guys. What
> I would like is at least one link and a 1-2-3 line annotation.
>
> I would add it here for later usage:
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Manufacturing_Bibliography.
>
> I think's Eric list now contains practical guides, while the books here,
> which make a political/technical case, would go in a separate listing.
>
> Kevin, you must have a good list after writing your book?
>
> Let's help others in the same quest go up to speed!
>
> Many thanks for considering your assistance,
>
> Michel
>
> What we have now is:
>
> Natural Capitalism
>
> Shuman's The Small-mart Revolution
>
> Callenbach's Ecotopia
>
> "The Second Industrial Divide
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Kevin Carson <
> free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/2/08, Josef Davies-Coates <josef at uniteddiversity.com> wrote:
>>
>> > "Building Blocks", Chapter 5 of Natural Capitalism by Lovins et al, was
>> one
>> > of the first books that got me thinking and excited ecovillages. It told
>> the
>> > story of Village Homes in Davis California:
>> >
>> > http://www.villagehomesdavis.org/
>>
>> I'd read
>
>
>
>
>> a couple years ago, and absorbed mostly
>>
>> the stuff on energy conservation.  But this year I read a book on lean
>> production, with an introduction by a lean expert who saw networked
>> local production on the Emilia-Romagna model (rather than in a giant
>> corporation like Toyota) as the optimal application of lean
>> principles.  And when I contacted him privately, he recommended the
>> lean chapter in Natural Capitalism, which had gone right over my head
>> when I first read it because I was going through a rather intense
>> anti-Tom Peters backlash at the time.
>>
>> He also recommended Shuman's The Small-mart Revolution, btw.
>>
>> > (as well as ING Baring doing some sensible stuff in Holland)
>> >
>> > I also learnt recently that Kim Stanley Robinson (author of the classic
>> > Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy which totally inspired loads of my friends)
>> > lives at Village Homes :)
>> >
>> > I've heard his latest trilogy is all about permaculture essentially.
>>
>> I've never read Robinson, but now I'll definitely have to.  I love sci
>> fi that attempts to depict decentralist economic ideas in practice.
>> Right now I'm rereading Callenbach's Ecotopia, and wondering how much
>> of it inspired Vinay's vision in "The Unplugged" (particularly the
>> prefab houses).
>>
>> > > >  There's a book, "The Second Industrial Divide" which Marcin and
>> Smari
>> > say
>> > > > makes about the same case for light manufacturing, and that was
>> written
>> > in
>> > > > the 1980s.
>>
>> > > Is it by Piore and Sable?  I'll have to get a copy, and soon.
>>
>> > I believe that is the one. Hope so, because I just ordered it :)
>>
>> Me, too.  The good thing about Amazon is that the bookstores give away
>> used stuff almost free if it's to a marginal enough market niche--this
>> was priced at $1.25, I think.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Carson
>> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
>> http://mutualist.blogspot.com
>> Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
>> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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>> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
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