How do you make a global citizens movement? Like bees to flowers, connect across profoundly different realities, says Jose Ramos
Why a planetary commons is better than a global commons, how cities and businesses can respect earth-system boundaries, and more
Do we produce enough to live dignified, meaningful and creative lives? Yes. And “public-commons partnerships” can get us there, says Abundance
The Stroud Commons aims to shift housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care & the means of exchange into community ownership
How can AI become a "machinery of the commons"? First, we deal with its powers to rank, classify and exclude
“Alternative futures are being created around the world—but not, for the most part, in plain sight.” Bollier and Thackara in conversation
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Explore technology, society and the future, or energy as a commons, at the Cosmolocalism summer schools
"The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking is born of a simple realisation: The world we have inherited is no longer working"
Urban land keeps getting sold off, instead of functioning as a commons for citizens. England’s first Land Commission, in Liverpool, can change this
Cosmolocalism: "a human being is not only a self-interested entity programmed to maximize profits, but also loves to communicate, work for pleasure, and share"
Many things can be a commons - even an ageing commercial oldies radio station. How Radio Kingston (covering NY and the Hudson Valley) became its community's mirror
The Commons meets the Doughnut - and crumbs fly... A conversation between David Bollier and Kate Raworth
How do you fund Earth Regeneration? Colombia’s Joe Brewer is working out a new finance model, via the commoning of land
Peer-Designing, Open Blueprints and Maker Machines: how to put design and production in the hands of people and communities
If we want a post-Covid recovery to come with stronger communities, then “commons thinking” will be vital
"To achieve a sustainable balance of private sufficiency and public luxury, land is the key": the 40th E.F. Schumacher Lecture, given by George Monbiot
Towards a commons economics: maps, pointers and examples that help you imagine what a post-capitalism would look like
A pill dispenser for those with Parkinson's, which copes with shaky hands? Cosmolocals made and designed a solution (via TikTok)
We should aim for “Co-Cities”, says Prof. Sheila Foster - meaning we reimagine the city as a commons
"Beyond markets and states": Elinor Ostrom's studies of the commons can help put community power at the core of British society