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Occupy wall street, occupy money talk

The real possibility of Occupy Wall Street is not about physical occupation of a street, but about replacing the role that Wall St. plays in wealth creation.

We spoke at Re-Visioning Money Day on October 24, 2011 at 60 Wall St.

Thanks to Katie Teague for filming!

 

MIT-KIT webkit on ceptr

We gave this presentation at the invitation of MIT’s Kerberos and Internet Technology team. “Just a Spoonful of Ceptr” is an introduction to Ceptr , a low-level system for organizing computing and communications. Ceptr emerged from the MetaCurrency Project’s efforts to build platforms that enable systems to be resilient and distributed at the lowest level.

 

Transitioning to the new economy

Arthur Brock - transitioning to the new economy, from Ben Levi

 

Currency Interview

An amusing and brief interview of some of us currency folks at the Impact Economy Summit

 

Deep Wealth Breakout Session Recap

At the Impact Economy Summit we had a breakout group exploring the concept of Deep Wealth that I had presented briefly. This is a brief report back.

 

Deep Wealth talk at New Economy Conference

Arthur and Eric do a post-monetary jazz ensemble at the Strategies for a New Economy Conference at Bard College - May 2012.

 

Footage from the panel “Monetizing Intangible Capital” at the Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco, February 28, 2011

 

ELL Gratitude

This video is from the second year of Emerging Leader Labs sharing our gratitude with the people who supported us. August 2013.

 

Emerging Leader Labs - Seed Project

Summer 2012 Eric and I ran a gift-economy based social change incubator. It was awesome! Ben Brownell captured much of the spirit of it in this video.

 

Our first video/interview outlining the basic concepts of the Metacurrency Project.

 

Milk & Honey - Tracks In The Snow

Currencies are like tracks in the snow.

 

Footage from the panel “Monetizing Intangible Capital” at the Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco, February 28, 2011

 

Footage from the panel “Monetizing Intangible Capital” at the Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco, February 28, 2011

 

Colorado Local First - Introduction to the Colorado Local First Campaign from the Mile High Business Alliance.

 

A brief recap of the principles of Deep Wealth, how to “see” it and build it together.

 

Stages of Development of Economic Capacities and Ingredients

 

The presentation we used in our MIT-KIT Webinar. I recommend you watch that video to get voice narration about how this all works.

 

Local Flavors - Recirculating Gift Certificates which support local business, build community and enhance neighborhood appeal and local flavor.

 

New Economy, New Wealth - We are entering a post-industrial age with a very different economy and needs for a different view of wealth. What does this mean for us?

 

Transitioning to the New Economy - How your business can transition to the new economy.

 

Marti Spiegelman interviews Arthur about deep value on her Awakening Value Radio show on Voice America.

 

Jerry Michalski interviews me about Alternative Currencies IFTF FutureCast Interview

The FutureCast series is a new way to track some of IFTF’s research-in-progress and join the behind-the-scenes conversations that help shape our forecasts in global trends, technology, innovation, health, and sustainability. These open conversations will be recorded and made available as podcasts on the Future Now blog.

 

Douglas Rushkoff interviews Arthur Brock about currencies for a New Economy on his Media Squat radio show.

 

Currency Resources Section for Life Inc.

Modern technology makes it realistic for us to perform the accounting and transaction functions that banks have traditionally done for us. We have the means to put an end to their money monopoly and their currency monoculture which they have fostered to make it easier for them to control the economy and channel wealth into the hands of the few.

 

Designing for Social Flows: Designing Incentives.

Find my contribution to Chapter 6 of Designing for Social Flows on Designing Incentives. It is still pending final edits and publication with Triarchy Press](/triarchy-press):

Personally, I wanted the book title to be “Designing Social Flows…” but others felt that was a bit to heavy handed. :)

 

Financing for Local Business

Pages 128-130 in Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne outline one of the Capital Programs that we’ve been building at the Mile High Business Alliance.

 

Where the Game Layer Really Counts: Sharing & Peer Communities

Game mechanics should be fun and playful, as well as rewarding in an real world sense-like leveling-up on Couchsurfing opens up new places, people and offline experiences to you, Aare most game-based apps fun, though?

 

Bernal Experiments With Local Currency

Residents of Bernal Heights have a new reason to shop locally, one that rewards loyalty to the neighborhood's mom-and-pop businesses with discount savings. Under a homegrown benefits program launched this summer, people who open accounts with a local credit union are awarded specially branded VISA debit cards they can swipe at participating businesses to rack up discounts called Bernal Bucks.

 

Gaming for Better Communities

Gamification has become a full-fledged movement. It started with social media, then spread across industries as marketers discovered the allure of points, badges, challenges, and rewards as mediums to making almost anything seem like more fun.

 

Users for Sale: Has Digital Illiteracy Turned Us Into Social Commodities?

The web-based email, chat and message boards that came online in the '90s were poised to revolutionize interpersonal communication. Then companies tried to monetize the Internet.

 

Regenerative Organizational Design - Jacki Saorsail

Jacki Saorsail compiled a whole output packet as part of her capstone project for her Masters from Gaia University. Be sure to note there are SEVEN TABS OF CONTENT across the top of the page. That's where most the beef is, not on the "cover page." Gaia University - Capstone Output Packet for Masters Degree

 

Integrity as important as profit at Dream Team Technologies

An oldie, but goodie. An article written by Rebecca Self about my old company Dream Team Technologies around the time we received the Colorado Ethics in Business Award (2001). Bizwest

 

Thesis Presentation @ Emerging Leader Labs

M’Lissa (Roulson) Story did her Masters thesis using Emerging Leader Labs as a case study for Social Innovation Incubators. This is her presentation of her thesis. Okay, it’s not exactly news/press, but it’s actually kind of cooler. Somebody did a whole Masters thesis about ELL!