By Laura Flanders, David Bollier, Laura Flanders Show
A new world based on community and collaboration is closer than you think. We can steward resources together, in fact, millions of people are doing just that. And not just in the history books. This week, from Kingston, NY, author and activist David Bollier, Co Founder of the Commons Strategy Group, explains what it means to Think Like A Commoner.
By Neal Gorenflo, Shareable
I want to share three similar examples of how citizens, when faced with a big challenge like we were, chose commoning and not only succeeded, but further developed their collaborative capacity ensuring they could better meet future challenges.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
But what makes the Nidiaci garden special is the commoning that occurs there. The neighborhood decides how to use the space to suit its own interests and needs.
By Jannis Kühne, Patterns of Commoning
A wide variety of urban commons around the world are challenging the idea that people’s needs can only be met via city governments, urban planners and lawyers.
By David Bollier, P2P Foundation Blog
What changes in state power must occur for commoning to flourish as a legal form of self-provisioning and governance?
By Marianne Gronemeyer, Patterns of Commoning
“Conviviality” is still a foreign word, one that triggers the question, “Well, what does it mean?”
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?
By Silke Helfrich, STIR
In such a context, the minimum wage – which is supposed to create a minimum level of equality in formal terms – can never create a feeling of social justice.
By Cat Johnson, Shareable
You have to start talking about the commons as this organic whole, and not as this machine you can break down into parts or dissect. It’s a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
There is often a potential for sharing and mutual accommodation that is being ignored.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
This chapter explores the features of sustainable commons and the extent of commons today. It describes the practice of commoning as a possible response to the ecological crisis.
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
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.