How Do Community Land Trusts Relate to the Commons?: Part 1
CLTs are a strategy that removes land from the housing market without disconnecting residents from their interest in owning, maintaining, and improving buildings.
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Closed In and Crowded Out: Urbanising against the City
European institutions were designed to direct flows of global capital. In doing so, they’ve become less accountable to people.
Here’s What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like
So what might a commons-based economy actually look like in its broadest dimensions, and how might we achieve it?
Property Rights, Inequality and Commons
I’d like to focus on the obsession in modern industrial societies to propertize everything, including life itself, and to use law as a tool to impose a social order of markets and private property as expansively as possible.
What Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common? A People’s Historian Explains
The Magna Carta turns 800 years old today. Known as the "Great Charter," it is widely considered the foundation of parliamentary democracy, human rights and the supremacy of the law over the crown.
There’s Nothing Heroic About Stealing Water from the Commons
It’s not every day that someone who steals water from the commons for private use on his large estate gains folk hero status in the sustainability movement.
The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing
It is clear that the transition to a post-capitalist, sustainable economy will not happen overnight, or even in a few years.
Bologna, a Laboratory for Urban Commoning
Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down priorities of institutions, especially corporations and government.
Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia
Important lessons can and should be learned in our struggles to defend the land and commons from what took place and continues to take place in Bolivia.
In Defense of the Commons
This article identifies some of the threats to the commons and highlights the resistance of local people.
The Care-Centered Economy: A New Theory of Value
By identifying “care” as an essential category of value-creation, Praetorius opens up a fresh, wider frame for how we should talk about a new economic order.
Crisis, Opportunity and Climate Austerity in Drought-Stricken California
In the midst of a severe drought, California Gov. Jerry Brown has enacted the state’s first mandatory water cuts.