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Michael Howard teaches Philosophy at the University of Maine, and is the author of Self-Management and the Crisis of Socialism and the coordinator of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network.

CDF brings together the funds and partners to incubate and replicate innovative programs through new and existing cooperative enterprise.

Aaron Fernando is the Development and Communications Director at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He is also a freelance writer focusing on local movements, new economy initiatives, and behavioral economics.

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About Reinvent: Reinvent gathers top innovators in video conversations to fundamentally reinvent our world.

J. Gabriel Ware wrote this article for YES! Magazine. J. Gabriel is a solutions reporter at YES! Follow him on Twitter @JGabinator.

George Dafermos is a researcher of technology policy and management and a copyleft activist affiliated with the P2P Foundation. He holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology and is an internationally recognised expert on issues related to the governance of the commons, peer production, open/user innovation, open licensing and new organisational structures enabled by the Internet.

Colin Doyle is head of sustainability education and events at nonprofit Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter, Oregon, and lives onsite in Meadowsong Ecovillage. He enjoys thoughtful conversation, experiencing different cultures and ecosystems, and exploring huge, craggy mountains.