Spain’s CIC Tries to Build a New Economy from the Ground Up
The Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC, pronounced “seek”) is surely one of the more audacious commons-based innovations to have emerged in the past five years.
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How Can Open Cooperatives Grow and Thrive: A Proposal
Unlike their traditional for-profit counterparts, Open Cooperatives are oriented towards the common good in their statutes.
The Rise of Biocultural Rights
Biocultural rights represent a bold new departure in human rights law that recognizes the importance of a community’s stewardship over lands and waters.
Roaming the Rift: Development and Pastoralists in Northern Kenya
When the people are allowed to be pastoralists what we have is a successfully managed commons.
Buen Vivir and the Commons
I think Buen Vivir is a proposal aimed at making visible and expressible aspects of reality that are ignored by the dominant paradigm.
From basic income to social dividends: sharing the value of common resources
It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
The “Naturalness” of the Commons
When you live in a community, you see how it’s the most natural and spontaneous thing in the world that everything is shared, that everything must strengthen everyone to work…
Adjusting the Fifth to a Finite Planet, Part II
“Are individuals entitled to wealth created by society . . . or should this wealth belong to society as a whole?”
Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
Now in the throes of artificial scarcity, U.S. cities, counties and states are running out of water even as they turn control over managing water supplies to private corporations.
Fierce Assaults on the “Attentional Commons”
Sellers are using every possible technique to colonize our minds and emotions at the most elemental levels in a relentless attempt to prod us to buy, buy, buy.
Barcelona en Comú: the City as Horizon for Radical Democracy
…there is a new cycle of struggles for democratic governance unfolding at the level of the city.
Review: Blue Future
Blue Future details both progress and regress in the struggle for water justice.