She weaves hard facts, witty animation and an engaging "everywoman" narrator role to illuminate complex problems that threaten the commons, and offer promising commons sense solutions.
A Notre Dame business school professor incorporates the commons into MBA and undergraduate courses. He predicts that all B-schools will eventually teach courses on the importance of the commons.
This grassroots inner city group takes an out-front role in many water issues, and is in the forefront of an emerging campaign to claim water as a commons throughout the Great Lakes region.
Pat Mooney paints a sobering picture of just how far enclosures of the commons are proceeding: Companies are turning all sorts of agricultural crops and even basic elements of matter into proprietary products. As executive director of the Canadian-based ETC Group, Mooney has long fought the corporate consolidation, biotechnology abuses, and wrong-minded public policies that are accelerating these enclosures.
For Saulo Araujo, the commons idea of open source extends far beyond software, beyond even the Internet itself all the way to villages in northeastern of Brazil.
