COMMONS MAGAZINE
Commons Strategies 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.
Gustavo Esteva voices provocative views on human rights, economic development and flush toilets
(By Ijirawu Jimbo under a CC license)
Conservatives, progressives and everyone else likes farmers' markets, local food, mom-and-pop stores and other qualities of a thriving community. Can they all connect around the commons? (Photo of the Barberton, Ohio, Downtown Farmers Market by the Barberton Community Foundation under a Creative Commons license.)
A chart from the Ecuador Transition Plan by Michel Bauwens.
"The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania", a painting depicting a scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Sir Joseph Noel Paton.
(Photo by Stephen Melkisethian under a Creative Commons license.)
EFF’s new website helps Internet users fight unfair terms-of-service contracts.
Today's rigid attitudes about property rights break with tradition
10 Questions for working together
