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....
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The Commons: The Video
An amusing, enlightening 4-minute introduction to the commons
By Jay Walljasper
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While “the commons” is an evocative term, sparking images in our minds ranging from English peasant revolts to a park in downtown Boston, the full scope of its meaning is not always clear to people upon first encountering it.
That’s part of our mission at On The Commons “to make the idea of the commons and a commons-based society as familiar to everyone as the winner of last year’s American Idol competition.
That’s why we’ve partnered with the New Press publishing house, filmmakers Laura Hanna, Gavin Browning, Dana Schechter, Molly Schwartz and the band Frosted Ambassador to produce an entertaining, enlightening 4-minute introduction to the whole host of ideas connected to the commons.
See it here on You Tube: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/commons_video
The video explores ideas in three recent books about the commons published by New Press: OTC Fellow David Bollier’s just published Viral Spiral, Gar Alperovitz & Lew Daley’s Unjust Deserts and Maude Barlow’s Blue Covenant.
Posted May 11, 2010
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