🌱 Grassroots Economics - Book Published!🌱. After years of learning, listening, and working alongside incredible communities, I’m thrilled to share Grassroots Economics: Reflection and Practice—a book exploring how we can rebuild trust, pool commitments, and create resilient

Kuota in Kiswahili. I am no linguist, just a student of soft words that carry rain and root in the same breath. They tell me kuota means to sprout. A seed below the soil, waiting for the right light, the right hush of water to remember itself. They also say kuota means to.

Lets imagine a Physics of Intention …. The study of how commitments move, bind, cluster, and ripple across systems. In this frame:. Trust has mass. Commitments have momentum. Fulfilled promises generate stabilizing force. For now, let’s define a type of intention (around its

no so long ago

Mzee Evan. Aliongea juu ya mambo muhimu. Last night I attended a community Dhome (gathering) a tradition among the Giriama tribe in the village where we live. It was a time to hear about all that has been built: farms, houses, trust, friendship … and to mourn the loss of some

Many studies show the strongest driver of behavior change is seeing your peers change. The worst? Negativity . like when you try to rub poop off something . it just spreads itself. So please . share what you’re doing to support your community & planet. Hope is contagious.

💳 Visa was just the beginning: Dee Hock built a global trust network among banks. Now it’s our turn . to build trust networks among communities. Commitment pooling lets us share food, care, skills & time . just like banks share credit (but better). Not just money. Not

💳 What if your next credit card came from your community?. Commitment Pools are a simple, ancient way to access shared resources through trust. You contribute what you can (labor, food, care) and receive what you need, when you need it. Just tracked promises, fulfilled over

Grateful for this thoughtful and beautifully crafted piece by Icarus Complex Magazine on the heart of our work at @grassEcon . It captures the spirit of Mweria (beyond transaction, to trust) and how ancestral commitment-pooling practices are alive, evolving, and deeply relevant.

Zealot by Reza Aslan . liking this as much as I did his book on Islam (No God but God)

What if the universe is not just collapsing, but reproducing?. Physicist Lee Smolin proposed that black holes may birth new universes . cosmic reproduction through gravitational collapse. This essay explores how the human mind mirrors that pattern: a projection from the cosmos

RT @mbauwens: < From the birth of free cities to modern cooperative ecosystems, a red thread runs through it all: solidarity-based autonomy….

Radical Reseeding: A Call to Commoning. There are moments in any relationship (personal, professional, or communal) when momentum isn’t enough. What began with fire now asks for presence. At Grassroots Economics and the Sarafu Network, we’re exploring how to reseed trust.

RT @RelearningEcon: "The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is,….

Gros calins seulement le matin froid.

We are doing weekly drop in sessions here! Every Tuesday and Wednesday. (now extended based on demand) We can do breakout-rooms!. It’s fun. @grassEcon.

Time with Muga💞

Commitment pooling is about coordinating real resources through tracked promises. It has always enabled communities to borrow and share labor, goods, or funds. It's ancient - its everywhere once you start looking.

RT @wor: @JamieBonkiewicz Sadly and typically the framing is not an analysis . it's ideological caricature. Capitalism, socialism, communi….

RT @TheSilvioGesell: Join us tomorrow (Tue) at 1pm ET for an Economy 2.0 round table w/@wor, @lovegrovegeo, @f1ypa2rn and Teun van Sambeek….