Commons Movement

The commons is a newly rediscovered but ancient paradigm for managing shared wealth.  With deep historical and legal roots, it is also a social and ethical discourse that critiques market capitalism while moving beyond it with creative, self-organized systems for meeting needs.  With projects that range from online cooperatives to alternative currencies and relocalized food production to community-based fisheries and forests, a diversified global movement is building a parallel economy around all sorts of commons.  With this section, GEO will showcase some of the more notable developments in the commons world on an ongoing basis.

Commons Basics

• Reclaiming the Commons: An Audiovisual Primer -Charlie Tims
• The Commons as an Approach to Governance, Sustainable Resource Management and Social Wellbeing -James Alexander Arnfinsen and David Bollier
• Building the Commons Beyond Markets and States: Celebrating the Work of Elinor Ostrom
• A Conservative Case for the Commons: Dusting Off Distributism -Jay Walljasper
• Community Development and the Commons: A Framework for Equitably Stewarding Resources -Chris Tittle

Ownership from the Commons Perspective

• Property as Fetish and Tool: Duncan Kennedy on Property, the Commons, and the Law
• From Homo Economicus to the Commoner: Beyond the Neoliberal Subject -David Bollier and Ezra Rosser
• Defining and Protecting the Commons -David Bollier and Ezra Rosser
• The Commons and the Legal Left at Harvard Law School -David Bollier
• Who Owns the Commons? -GRITtv

Commons, Cooperatives, and Collective Action

• How to Start a Seed Sharing Campaign in Your Town -Cat Johnson
• A Commons Cure for Emotional Distress -Cheyenna Weber
• Toward an Open Co-operativism -Pat Conaty and David Bollier
• Video: Open Co-ops and the Commons -Michel Bauwens

Financial Commons

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons: Executive Summary -David Bollier and Pat Conaty
• How a Complementary Currency is Improving Lives in Kenya -Will Ruddick
• Faircoin as the First Global Commons Currency? Spanish Co-op Creates Tools for a Decentralized Economic System -David Bollier
• Financial Hacking with Faircoin -Matthew Slater

Cooperatives and the Commonwealth

• The Commons is the Future: Rediscovering a Paradigm Beyond States and Markets -Yavor Tarinski
• Fairness and the Commons: An Interview with Eric Duran
• Commons-based Coalition Wins Big in Barcelona Election -Anna Bergren Miller
• Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons -Carlos Delclós

• Commons Strategies Group
  • The Wealth of the Commons
  • Patterns of Commoning
• Commons Transition
• David Bollier | news and perspectives on the commons
• On the Commons
• OuiShare
• Shareable
• The Ostrom Workshop

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