Commons: A Frame for Thinking Beyond Growth
You cannot think about the commons if you don’t ask yourself at the same time who creates them, who cares for them, who protects them and who reproduces them.
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John Thackara’s Intimate Tour of the Emerging New Economy
In the burgeoning genre of books focused on building a new and benign world order – a challenge variously known as the “new economy,” “Great Transition,” and the “Great Turning” among other terms) – John Thackara’s new book stands out.
The People’s Forest
In the Remscheid-based project ‘Wald 2.0’, everyone can have ‘their very own’ piece of forest. At the root of it is a coop that champions conservation and the common good.
The System of Rice Intensification and Its International Community of Practice
SRI is open-source. It does not belong to anyone, but is shared as a commons. Nobody “owns” either SRI theory or practice.
Re-imagining the Polity for a Networked Humanity
Can we envision some sort of transnational polity that could leapfrog over the poorly functioning state systems that prevail today?
10 Ways to Accelerate the Peer-to-Peer and Commons Economy
Let’s engage in a way to produce goods and create value that is free, fair, and sustainable! What is peer production and commons economics? More importantly, how can they help bring about a thriving economy that work for people and planet?
New Forms of Network-based Governance
To return to our original question: How can we develop new ways to preserve and extend the democratic capacities of ordinary people and rein in unaccountable market/state power?
Transnational Republics of Commoning
In moments of crisis, when the structures of conventional governance are suddenly exposed as weak or ineffectual, it is clear that there is no substitute for ordinary people acting together.
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.
6 Ways We’re Already Leading an Economic Revolution
While progress is never strictly linear, I believe that we are beginning to see an accelerating development of the foundations for a system that looks a lot like the Pluralist Commonwealth, and a growing recognition of how they begin to fit together.
Notable Commons Around the World
A wide variety of urban commons around the world are challenging the idea that people’s needs can only be met via city governments, urban planners and lawyers.
Sebastian Junger’s Meditation on Tribes
Why is it that American combat veterans experience the highest rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the world, while soldiers from other countries have far lower levels? Amazingly, warriors of the past, such as Native Americans, rarely experienced PTSD-like symptoms.