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COMMONS MAGAZINE

When Civil Disobedience Becomes Law Enforcement

August 26, 2013
Applying the public trust doctrine to protect us from climate change

Waterkeeper Alliance Declares Great Lakes a Shared Commons

May 25, 2012
A new resolution passed by the international organization founded and chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vermont Protects Public Rights to Groundwater

September 29, 2008

Quebec May Declare Water a “Collective Resource”

June 9, 2008

Vermont Steps in to Protect Water

May 8, 2008

Blue Pastures in a Public Trust

May 3, 2007
A proposal to open our coastal water to intensive fish-farming raises thorny environmental and legal questions.

Commons and Indigenous Communities: Overlapping Histories and Legal Tactics

February 6, 2007
Native American history offers lessons on the dangers of the public trust doctrine.

Ten Tenets: The Law of the Commons of the Natural World

March 10, 2006
The ten commons commandments, which already are enshrined in legal traditions and many state laws.