The Radical Open Access Collective: Building Better Knowledge Commons
The Radical Open Access Collective is one of the key forces trying to show how commoning in scientific and scholarly publishing can actually work.
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Right-to-Repair Activists are Heroes
Everywhere we look, heroes of information freedom are contesting the corporate state’s lockdown on the free sharing of knowledge.
Open Knowledge Society
Can our societies distribute knowledge to enable healthy forms of production and consumption as a template for a decentralized and equitable post-growth economy? On Extraenvironmentalist #78 we discuss the FLOK Society Project with Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation & John Restakis, author of Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital.
10 Open Hardware Projects to Save the Earth
On the coattails of the rise of intellectual property and economic monopolies, the Open Source movement is thriving, expanding public access to knowledge, culture and tools.
Why Peer Production Thrives in the Field of Theater Arts
What happens when you apply the tools of the sharing economy to the mission of an enterprising arts organization?
Practicing Commons in Community Gardens: Urban Gardening as a Corrective for Homo Economicus
“In these times of ever more blatant marketing of public space, the aspiration to plant potatoes precisely there – and without restricting entry – is nothing less than revolutionary,” writes Sabine Rohlf in her book review of Urban Gardening.1 Indeed, we can observe the return of gardens to the city everywhere and see it as an expression of a changing relationship between the public and the private. And it is not only this dominant differentiation in modern society that is increasingly becoming blurred; the differences between nature and society as well as that between city and countryside are fading as well, at least from the perspective of urban community gardeners.