Tom Llewellyn on Collective Resilience and Activating the Commons
A conversation with Tom Llewellyn, a lifelong commoner and a core member of Shareable, a magazine dedicated to all things sharing and commons-oriented.
Polly Robbins on Prototyping Cooperative Projects for Social Change
Outlandish is a worker cooperative and the profits they generate are invested in prototyping and developing new projects for social change.
Nathan Schneider on Cooperatives, the Commons and Ownership
Nathan Schneider, a co-originator of the Platform Coop movement, talks about cooperatives, ownership, the commons and the future of the digital economy.
David Bollier and Silke Helfrich on Free, Fair and Alive lives
Silke Helfrich and David Bollier answer the question, "How can people get into the commons?" and much more
Sophie Varlow on how the Commons can help us reconnect
The Commons Platform is values-based social media, built and owned by everyone, for everyone.
P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival
"If you want to flip your economic mind, and leap to the cutting edge of commons-based thinking, simply read on." - Kate Raworth
Peer to Peer: A Commons Manifesto
As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. This book explores it in depth.
The commons, the state and the public: A Latin American perspective
What are the commons and what is their political, social and economic relevance? An interview with Daniel Chavez from the Transnational Institute.
Everything for everyone: Michel Bauwens interviews Nathan Schneider
This book followed especially naturally from the Occupy one, Thank You, Anarchy. After the protests died down in 2012 and 2013, I started noticing that some of the activists I’d been following got involved in cooperative businesses. The first business I know of that started at Occupy Wall Street was a worker co-op print shop. Other people were helping create co-ops in areas of New York hit by Hurricane Sandy. There was this euphoria about the idea of co-ops among many of these people—a way of earning a livelihood while retaining the democratic values of the protests. I experienced a bit of that euphoria myself, which turned to a more serious fascination as I realized how long and deep this cooperative tradition has been.
Elena Martinez and Silvia Díaz of P2P Models on Blockchain, Feminism and Affective P2P
Silvia Díaz Molina is an anthropologist specialized in Gender Studies and a social researcher seeking to ground her work in more humane and sustainable organisations. She has experience in development cooperation and has been involved in different NGO projects giving awareness-raising workshops. Elena Martínez Vicente is a product designer, specialized in designing better processes and […]