A new film from the folk who brought you ‘The Story of Stuff’.

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the  leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating table at Copenhagen and in other capitals.

Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis.

If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

www.storyofcapandtrade.org

In the links below some articles point us to the science of sharing.

Hierarchies vs collaboration.

The internet enables some of these new ways to become real.

Thus a new paradigm of sharing (eg Metcalfe's Law. A network of 2 allows for 2 transactions (back and forth buying and selling), a network of 3 allows for 8 transactions, a network of 4 allows for 16 transactions) show us that we are heading into a highly organised but distributed power structure and that managing the transition to a new society that is sustainable means we will see old power structures fade and new ones emerge that will look completely different.

Read more at this Wikipedia article 

Small World Networks

New language such as 'small world networks' inform us about how many connections we can manage in a shared social program such as Transition Towns Read more at this Wikipedia article 

Network Theory

To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, we shape our networks and then our networks shape us.

Read more at this CNET artcile on Network Theory