KoinNews 17 August 24

Time Banking is a cooperative community initiative where people come together in a community to help one another as needed, free of charge. The time spent helping others is tracked using time credits in order to keep the process fair and balanced. 

Join our talk with River Stephens as we discuss the KommunityKoin app, and the economic theories behind a Gift and a Giving economy.

One of the many realizations we came to during our month-long #TheFutureOfWork campaign this past May, is that not only is the standard definition of “work” and how we make a living quite narrow, but that when we expand our definition of work to include the labor that nourishes life, it can trouble our core understandings of family, community, and the kinds of labor we deem valuable.

“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.” Buckminster R. Fuller

Witnessing the ongoing collapse of the American polity, one tries to find words for what is happening. The catastrophic error of our time goes beyond nasty political partisanship, and is not confined to our shores. It is easily described, but almost impossible to fix. Put simply, we’ve forgotten what civilisation is, and who we are without its distinctions and proscriptions: wild and vicious animals.

A new study reveals that protection has become the dominant reason why Americans own firearms, surpassing traditional motivations like hunting or sport shooting.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation.

Plans to introduce live police surveillance cameras that scan people's faces have been branded 'deeply intrusive' and dangerous by a coalition of ­privacy campaign groups.

It’s hard to be anonymous online in China. Websites and apps must verify users with their phone numbers, which are

It might be a while before we find out.

The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework is gradually coming into effect in line with its planned implementation timeline. The initial set of regulations, which took effect on July 1, focused on stablecoins and their issuers.

European scientists are warning in a new study that key places important to keeping global climate stable are in danger of collapsing.

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are in hundreds of consumer goods, as well as our water, and our bodies. These nearly indestructible manmade chemicals pose a significant threat to communities across the globe.