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The Lucas Plan was a January 1976 document produced by the workers of Lucas Aerospace Corporation, organized as the Combine.[1] The shop stewards at Lucas Aerospace published an Alternative Plan for the future of their company.[2] The plan was in response to the company’s announcement that thousands of jobs were to be cut to enable industrial restructuring in the face of technological change and international competition.[3] Instead of being made redundant the workforce argued for their right to develop socially useful products.[4]

The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or reducing carbon over there. The means is, of course, commodification. Offsets privatize planetary metabolism.

MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day.

Central Saint Martins graduate Luke Talbot has created a portable charger that can be hooked up to rental bikes to allow people experiencing homelessness to charge their phones for free.