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
Re-imagine the Future: A List of Resources for Commoning
Commons-oriented resources and links on the growing world of system-change activism, legal and policy innovation, academic research and political analysis.
Progressive Philanthropy Needs to Spur System Change
The weak reforms enacted after the 2008 financial crisis….the ineffectuality of climate change negotiations over the course of twenty-one years….the social polarization and stark wealth and income inequality of our time. Each represents a deep structural problem that the neoliberal market/state seeks to ignore or only minimally address.
Seeing the Forest
"Seeing the Forest" makes a powerful point about the potential of open collaboration is successfully managing something as large and biophysical as a forest.
Who May Use the King’s Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time
"In King John’s time, enclosure was mostly about the forest. Today it’s about everything, including life itself." The Magna Carta and Law for the Commons.
Here’s What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like
Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-Based Economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
Property Rights, Inequality and Commons
David Bollier describes how the Commons (and Commons-based law) might be a force for reducing inequality
A New Alignment of Movements? Part II: Strategies for a Convergence of Movements
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part two of two.
A New Alignment of Movements? Part I: The General Challenge
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together? Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? Part one of two.
Toward an Open Co-Operativism:
The P2P economy needs bridges between cooperative culture and the organizational forms that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.