Commoning and Changemaking
Please accept the invitation made by The Commoner’s Catalog and apply your talents and imagination to the challenges of commoning. We have much to learn from each other and a new world to build!
David Bollier
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1
Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.
On Technology’s Past and Future
Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements.
The hour is getting late – our expanded “Surviving the Future: Conversations for our Time” offerings
In these benighted times, I am delighted to be able to offer something wonderful!!
In partnership with Vermont’s Sterling College, the new and expanded ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time‘ offering – now featuring three elements, in response to requests from our growing community…
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
Our conversations at the ORFC are so valuable, especially as we move forward in a world that sits on a tipping point. We need to share these conversations with people outside our relatively small circle of believers.
Living without ‘machines’
How remote my own life is from taking “responsibility for my own material needs”, and how unskilled I am for that life—to the point where even if I wanted to, or needed to, I’m not sure how I would acquire the skills I needed for it.
Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back
In these and many other battles, commoners heroically fought to preserve their land and rights, but they were unable to stop the growth of a highly-profitable industry that was supported physically by the state and legally by the courts. As elsewhere, capital defeated the commons.
The uncertain prospects for us multicell types
You and I and termites have a lot in common. For one thing, we are all dependent on microbes to stay alive. Besides, humans and termites, along with every other multi-celled living creature, belong to just one small branch on the evolutionary tree of life, where we’re vastly outnumbered by bacteria.
House Divided
We are told we are divided. The narrative of division reinforces white male privilege by setting us against ourselves and not them.
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
How we put out the fire
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
