Rebulding the Commons: A Global Network of Rebel Cities Takes Place
The city vs. the state. The Cities of the Commons vs. global neoliberalism. These are more than phrases – they could be understood as slogans or horizons of a new global order.
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Bringing New Economic Forms to Life
Really, when it comes down to it, we MUST completely transform our current system, for the good of the species and the planet.
How Do We Integrate Activism and Governance?
For the first time, one of the European Parliament’s 28 Intergroups – groups made up of members from different political groupings, and that focus on certain issues – is devoted to discussing and defending the commons.
Who May Use the King’s Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time
NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed. The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days. I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, "Reinventing Law for the Commons." The following public talk, which I gave at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on September … Read more
Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity
Stephanie Rearick and her friends and co-workers have been constructing a solidarity-based economic network in Madison, Wisconsin and beyond:
The Strategic Value of Developing Law for the Commons
Having surveyed a rather remarkable array of commons-based law initiatives, it is worth pausing for a moment to reflect on their significance for law, governance and politics.
More Legal Innovations for Beating the Bounds
There are a number of legal and organizational innovations transforming co-operatives these days, making them moreoriented to commoning and the common good than just marketplace success.
Legal Innovations in Beating the Bounds
The point of this section is to identify specific initiatives that are trying to transform the legal paradigm or carve out new “protected zones” of enforceable rights within existing legal frameworks.
Reinventing Law for the Commons: Introduction
Although it is customary for mainstream economists and politicians to consider the commons a failed management regime – the “tragedy of the commons” – it is in fact a pervasive and highly generative system for meeting people’s needs.
Should We Move to Bioregionalism?
“It’s time to consider that bioregional self-sufficiency—the principle of meeting human needs within the constraints of resource areas—is really what leads to democracy and prosperity.”
A Good Life is the Business of us All
Digital culture is changing society: the way we relate to each other, how power flows, decisions are made, and politics is done, shaping environmental stresses.
Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious?
One of the great economists of the twentieth century had the misfortune of publishing his magnum opus, The Great Transformation, in 1944, months before the inauguration of a new era of postwar economic growth and consumer culture.