Dave Darby

Dave Darby founded Lowimpact.org in 2001, spent 3 years on the board of the Ecological Land Co-op and is a member Mutual Credit Services. His role is managing website content, blogging and fundraising.

cows on the commons

Explaining the commons economy

It’s an economy in which the essentials of life – housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care, the means of exchange etc. are owned in common, in communities, rather than by absentee landlords, corporations or the state.

January 9, 2024

Worried about fruit & veg rationing? Let’s grow our own, in our communities.

But we need to start considering food production as normal as housework. We could start with our gardens, but better is to club together in networks and press for participation and support from organisations with resources and power, including local authorities.

March 8, 2023

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