The Great Awakening: Excerpt
It is these commons-based transformations that allow overshooting systems to find new ways to work within the biocapacity of their own regions.
Michel Bauwens
Reweaving ‘The Web of Meaning’
On December 15th I had one of the most enjoyable conversations of this year with de delightfully polymathic Jeremy Lent about his path towards becoming one of the most elegant voices of humanity’s search for new and at the same time very ancient meaning.
The Rosewood Public Orchard
The orchard has created bonds where there were none before. Our volunteer network, our relationship with the university, the friendships of people who first met under the mulberry tree — these connections may be vital for our future.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Five
The transition into this future will be painful but it will be even more painful unless we radically rethink what is going on and how we all need to respond.
Living with natural gas pipelines: Appalachian landowners describe fear, anxiety and loss
More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region.
Overwhelming odds, unexpected alliances and tough losses — how defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement
When President Biden rescinded a crucial permit for the Keystone XL pipeline last week, it marked the culmination of one of the longest, highest-profile campaigns in the North American climate movement.
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism
An important factor in the rise of the Dutch merchant-industrialist class, scarcely mentioned in many accounts, was the absolute dominance of the Dutch fishing industry in the North Sea.
Planning for Food Commons in a Post-COVID World
The vision of a food commons seeks to embed economic relations into society and the natural world, through utilising the various forms of ecologically available resources in sustainable ways.
Drought, Disease and Isolation: The Urgent Situation of the Wayuu in La Guajira, Colombia
Why is it that the peoples that hold the least responsibility for the problems inflicted upon our living planet, are the ones who always seem to suffer the most?
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy
Australian mining firms seeking to strip-mine metallurgical coal in Alberta’s eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains knew well ahead of Albertans that the government was planning to rescind a law that stood in the way.
Jimmy Buff and the Radio Kingston Commons
Radio Kingston may be the closest thing to a commons that I’ve encountered in the world of radio. It’s a community-minded, noncommercial platform that lets the people of Kingston, New York, and the Hudson Valley, see and hear themselves on the air.
Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism
The challenge before us is that if we want a Green Left Transformation we must forge a cross-class alliance built around the aspirations of the Progressives in the precariat, a revival of the commons and a green-blue vision of a sustainable balance between humanity and nature.
