Last month we had the opportunity to attend the Economics and the Commons Conference in Berlin, where commoners from around the globe gathered to discuss the commons as a worldview and practical approach for addressing today’s most pressing problems.
At the conference we were inspired by the sheer number of people working to protect and advance the commons all around the globe, and we would like to highlight the breadth of the commons movement here.
The following list of networks, organizations, initiatives, and groups are working to build community and create a better future for us all. Their efforts are advancing the commons approach, a worldview and set of practical tools that can help protect and promote all that we share.
By no means is this a complete list, and we invite you to help us build it! Please contact us at info@onthecommons.org with your suggestions. Don’t forget to include website URLs when available.
- P2P Foundation
- Commons Strategies Group
- Remix the Commons
- School of Commoning
- Foundation for Ecological Security
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- Natural Justice
- Co-operatives UK
- Netzwerk Wachstumswende
- UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies
- The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Commons Abundance Network
- Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
- Barrabes Next
- IGOPnet: Internet, Politics, and Commons
- Open Source Ecology Germany
- STIR
- Shareable Magazine
- Futura Media
- Gemeingut in BürgerInnenhand
- Global Community Initiatives
- Comunes Collective
- Código Sur
- Labsus.org
- WIKISPEED
- Green Economics Institute
- Forest Peoples Programme
- Co-operative Women’s Guilde
- Commons und Solidarische Okonomie
- Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation
- Accès aux Savoirs
- School of the Rain Forest
- Icelandic Digital Freedom Society
- Creative Commons Croatia
- Telepolis
- La Red Vida
- Africa Water Network
- Psycommons
- Kosmos Journal
- Tellus Institute
- Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy
- The Institute for Economic Democracy
- Agua y Vida: Mujeres, Derechos y Ambiente A.C.
- International Society of Biourbanism
- Malmö Living Labs
- Focus on the Global South
- Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales
- Openflows Network
- Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
- Free Knowledge Institute
- Free Technology Academy
- OuiShare
- Commons.fi
- GLS Treuhand.
- Bread for the World
- Open Design City, Berlin
- Stadin Aikapankki
- Red Pepper Magazine
- Appropedia
- Commons Law Project
- Schumacher Center for a New Economics
- CommonSpark
- Goteo
- Ghana Dams Disloguewhich
- Cooperativa Integral Catalana
- Aurea Social
- Common Ground
- Petaluma Water Ways
- Philabucks
- Common Good Forum
- ColaBoraBora
- HowlRound
- Great Lakes Commons
- Great Lakes Commons Map