Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As long as capitalism has existed, in whichever form, there have been a great many voices of dissent, movements and thinkers crying out and struggling against what they have seen as an unjust, exploitative and destructive system.
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.
Commoning is beyond the just “being together”. In fact, it may be the only way in which we can systemically confront the dysfunctions and corruptions of the market/state system that now govern us.
Commoning may be a hardy social phenomenon with an ancient pedigree, but in modern industrial societies, it enjoys only modest understanding and respect.
Art is a subtle way to groom the populace with new ideas, fast.
Seeing the Forest tells the story of the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon — how it made a successful transition from timber extraction to ecosystem restoration.
What the world and humanity, and all those beings that are affected by our activities require is a mode of production, and relations of production, that are “free, fair and sustainable” at the same time.
At the P2P Foundation, we don’t use the moniker ‘revolution’ with much frequency, preferring the concept of phase transition.
Hank Herrera has a vision of how to be with the land – something ancient that can be reclaimed for the future.
Food sovereignty is a holistic approach to a global need.
This network of cities against the state is being born first as a developing story.
An important new book offering a vision of commons-based law has just arrived!
