No Organism is Truly Autonomous – Including Us
Many people say we need to focus on solutions that scale, but to me that’s globalisation-thinking wearing a green coat.
the commons
How Collaboration is Saving Rare Coastline and Ancient Olive Farms in Southern Italy
Food in Italy is not just about nutrition, it’s also about lifestyle, culture, and sharing.
Community Development and the Commons
The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. If we have a collective right to a resource, we should be able to participate in decisions about that resource’s use.
A new wave of climate insurgents defines itself as law-enforcers
One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse.
Andreas Weber’s “Biology of Wonder”: Aliveness as a Force of Evolution and the Commons
Drawing upon a rich body of scientific research, Weber outlines a different story of evolution, one in which living organisms are inherently expressive and creative in a struggle to both compete and cooperate.
Science as Public Good and Commons as a Science
The truth is that science isn’t only public, it’s also private, and the crossbreeding between academia, government and business is old, deep, and sometimes murky.
One Cheer for the Commons
A recent article on Resilience.org proclaimed that ‘the commons is the future’, so let me state my thesis plainly at the outset: no it isn’t…
City as a Commons: Flint to Bologna
The disaster with Flint, Michigan’s drinking water, incited by political leaders more devoted to fiscal austerity than the common good, illuminates why it’s important to think of our cities as commons–human creations that belong to all residents, not just the wealthy and politically well-connected.
The Climate and the Commons
The Paris agreement that ensued from the COP-21 summit states that “climate change is a common concern of humankind”.
The Transition Movement in Global Perspective
The importance to Transition of both community and cultural commons is deep-seated.
Minimum Wage or Commoning?
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.
The Commons is the Future
In their book The Economic Order & Religion (1945), Frank H. Knight and Thomas H. Merriam argue that social life in a large group with thoroughgoing ownership in common is impossible…
