As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natu…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braidi…
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
Gifthood — an open gifting community
Neighbors giving freely. Free things, offered and asked for by the people who live near you, on an open network you actually own. No money, no marketplace, no catch.
Papeterie Stationery & Gifts
Wedding Stationery, Custom Stationery, Curated Gift Boutique
Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.
Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.
Craigslist, Wikipedia, and the Abundance Economy
You’ve heard it before. Maybe you’ve even said it. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” “You can’t get something for nothing.” “Somebody has to pay.” People recite these sayings with confidence, as though they were quoting Newton’s Laws of Motion...
A compass for a Life-Affirming Economy
This is an invitation to stand at the intersection of Self, Culture, and Science and imagine what flourishing in a life-affirming economy…
Birds of Berkeley [Paperback] by Oliver James
Now in paperback! This charming, full-color field guide to 25 birds easily found in Berkeley proves that even the city’s avian residents are a little
The book — Good Services
“This book is long overdue. It will become a must-read for the service design community, but this book is also for everyone working with services”
gifthood.community — closed beta
A neighborly way to give and receive — everything free, always. Built in the open on the AT Protocol.
The gift of growing an absurd amount of tomatoes
How my reign as Tomato King brought me closer to the earth and spurred a gift exchange among neighbors I could've never anticipated
‘Doves and food and fun’: the fight to save a farming pioneer
Wakelyns needs £1.2m to save its diverse organic crops and ‘micro’ enterprises including a bakery and honeybee hives
Understanding Abundance, part 1: It’s Caused by Consumers
Hello! If you’re coming here for the first time, thanks for checking out my writing on Medium. I don’t publish much here anymore — I’ve…
Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world
Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.
