COMMONS MAGAZINE
A wide number of new strategies exist for assuring that the commons, in its many forms, is protected and enhanced over time. Some involve government and law, others depend on informal governance and social sanctions, while still others work with market mechanisms and other hybrid models.
Tonetta Graham, an leader in the Strawberry Mansions neighborhood, sees Civic Commons as a way to bring investment to low-income areas without gentrification.
By GotCredit under a Creative Commons license.
Since 1597, this acequia (irrigation canal) near Espanola, New Mexico has been collaboratively managed. (Photo by NCRS New Mexico under a Creative Commons license)
Photo by Lawrence OP under a Creative Commons license.
(By Ask the Climate Question under a Creative Commons license)
(By Hoan Luong under a Creative Commons license)
(By Jeremy Hunsinger under a CC license)