The Third Revolution
My thesis is that all these things that we are describing are the seed of a new political economy, of a new system of civilization.
the commons
Why Peer Production Thrives in the Field of Theater Arts
What happens when you apply the tools of the sharing economy to the mission of an enterprising arts organization?
Fertile Health: Parallels between Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Medicine
The future of health care…involves…returning to the commons of care.
Meet the young hackers finding new ways to live
If the expectations we’ve been brought up with have now become dreams, how we cope with the shock will affect not just how we can build a better future, but whether we can conceive of a better future at all.
Homegrown urban parks in Toronto
To the people of Toronto, city parks are not something that the city government simply provides. They are a passion that engages ordinary citizens acting as commoners.
A Human Factor: Conservation Requires More Than Just Parks
When it comes to conservation, maybe local people are not the problem, but the solution.
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom: Review
Both the conventional “privatization” and “state regulation” approaches amount, when all the legal fictions are stripped away, of substituting the judgment of managers working for some absentee central authority for that of users.
Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
This essay attempts to simplify possible outcomes by using two axes or polarities which give rise to four possible future scenarios.
Electricity commons: Towards a new industrial society
But if we must obtain our electricity supply from planetary, common resources… it is worth exploring how the commons perspective might guide a reorganization of the electricity industry.
Art for Everyone’s Sake
Is art a commons? Or does collective creativity violate the individualistic nature of artists themselves? That’s a topic I’ve explored both in my art and in conversations with artists around the U.S.
A Review of Shiney Varghese’s “Water Governance for 21st Century”
Water Governance for 21st Century, by Shiney Varghese at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, makes a compelling case urging advcates and policy makers to advance an approach combining the commons framework and the Public Trust Doctrine principles.
Cartographers of the Commons
This truly is how new movements take shape — by self-organizing a new mental map of the world that lets people begin to navigate in new ways.