The Conservative Case for a Commons Way of Life
At its root, the Distributist movement sought a practical, community-oriented alternative to the inequality of capitalism and the bureaucracy of socialism.
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The Great Promise of Social Co-operatives
The austerity agenda is often presented as inevitable, which is really just a way for corporatists and conservatives to dismiss any discussion or debate.
Resisting water privatisation under austerity
Despite explicit opposition from hundreds of thousands of European citizens, the sovereign debt crisis has given new momentum to the privatisation of water services in many European countries.
A Charter for Democracy
Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go?
Will Detroit’s Water be Privatized or Recognized as Commons?
When it comes to a person’s fundamental needs being met – nothing is more basic and human, than to share.
Global economic sharing: the most important debate of our time?
The implications of moving towards a global sharing economy are immense, but there are many reasons to embrace this simple concept
A new model for ecological governance
The overriding challenge for our time – as outlined in our three previous CSRwire essays – is for human societies to develop new ways of interacting with nature and organizing our economic and social lives.
Imagination to Action: Building Commons Movement From the Ground Up
What do we really want our communities to look like?
Economy: There Are Many Alternatives
The New Economy Coalition hosted their third annual conference in Boston this June with a packed house of over 650 people.
In search of the commons
The good thing about losing everything is that it forces you to become flexible and to search for new opportunities.
Elinor Ostrom, The Commons and Anti-Capitalism
Both Elinor and her husband Vincent…were concerned with two essential problems of how resources could be managed in an ecologically sustainable way and how a self-governing system could be promoted.
What is the Lifeblood of a Commons?
We have so internalized the logic of neoliberal economics and modernity, even those of us who would like to think otherwise, that we don’t really appreciate how deeply our minds have been colonized.