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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.

An Invitation to Join the Commons Network

September 12, 2012 | by On the Commons Team

If you care about what we share in common, read this invitation

At Last, A New Story for the Future

December 12, 2011 | by Jay Walljasper

Bill McKibben's introduction to OTC's book All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons

Our Common Wealth: Jonathan Rowe's Collected Writings on the Commons

March 23, 2013 | By Jay Walljasper

An author/activist showed us the hidden economy that makes everything else work

Our Hidden Wealth

March 23, 2013 | By Jonathan Rowe

How the commons makes everything else work

A Backstage Look at Love Poems

February 15, 2013 | By Camille Gage

OTC and the Joyface Collective send Valentines

The OTC Dictionary of the Commons

February 9, 2013 | By On The Commons team

From Acequia to Wiki, words to share

A Sampling of Commons Action All Over

February 9, 2013 | By On the Commons team

Citizen journalism in Grand Rapids to an economics summit in Berlin to fighting climate change everywhere

The Triumph of the Commons

January 1, 2013 | By Leland Maschmeyer

An excerpt from 55 Theses For the Future

Our New Commons Book Free to You

December 18, 2012 | By On the Commons team

Download this handy guide showing why the commons matter more than ever in 2013

The Commons as a Transformative Vision

October 29, 2012 | By David Bollier & Silke Helfrich

Essay from a new book explains the world beyond market & state

5 Ways to Save the Commons on Your Campus

September 29, 2012 | By Jay Walljasper

It starts with thinking of yourself as a commoner

Did We Build It? Or Didn't We?

September 4, 2012 | By Harry Boyte

America's vanishing sense of commonwealth can be seen in this year's election