Tomorrow is the New Jersey premiere of Close Encounters of the 34th Avenue Kind, a documentary about a street that began to see itself as all streets are: a connector and a common. Pedestrian harm was reduced by 61%, and crashes dropped by 34%. What could we do with Bloomfield Avenue, the most DEADLY street in suburban NJ, if we stopped viewing it as a thoroughfare and began to view it as a commons?
We hope this 60-minute documentary will inspire you for the second part of the evening: a talk on the following idea.
If Bloomfield Avenue is a commons, what would it take for everyone to feel they belong here?
From Newark to West Caldwell and everywhere in between.
Join us for this groundbreaking event.
Now ON to the regularly scheduled programing!
Zelensky took out the Bot Farms and once again proved that humans aren’t naturally evil. Homo economicus is not real. Without the meddling of hegemony, we would actually be pretty decent to each other. In this episode of Auto Asphyxiation, Kimberly and Lark discuss Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons,” why its amplification stemmed from its usefulness as a co-sign for supply-side economics, and how Elinor Ostrom proved it wrong in Governing the Commons. Join in as we discuss human nature, a nicer internet, and the idea that A BETTER INTERNET IS Possible.
