President of the Blue Frontier Campaign, an effort to protect oceans and sea life. Author of Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness.
The Panton Principles seeks to promote "open data" commons in science.
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.)