About the Author

Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at On the Commons and editor of OnTheCommons.org, created OTC’s book All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. A speaker, communications strategist and writer and editor, he chronicles stories from around the world that point us toward a more equitable, sustainable and enjoyable future. He is author of The Great Neighborhood Book and a senior associate at the urban affairs consortium Citiscope. Walljasper also writes a column about city life for Shareable.net and is a Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces and Augsburg College’s Sabo Center for Citizenship and Learning. For more of his work, see JayWalljasper....

Business Week Praises Sky Trust Idea

By Jay Walljasper

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Business Week gives admiring attention to the Sky Trust as a mechanism to deal with global warming. The piece, “Carbon Dividend?” clearly likes the idea of distributing dividends from a pool of money generated by auctioning off the right to emit carbon into the sky. A commoners’ salute to our colleague Peter Barnes!

Posted February 8, 2008