Commons Framework

Our Great Lakes Commons: A People’s Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever

Nine Core Commons Principles

The importance of belonging, participating, creating, restoring, redefining

Handy Tools for Achieving Commons Based Solutions

10 Questions for working together

December 3, 2010

Twelve Commons Dispatches for These Times

Drawing from our work with the commons, we offer the following ideas and observations that we believe can help us constructively and creatively make the most out of this movement moment

July 30, 2010

On the Commons and the 2010 U.S. Social Forum

June 2010 – Detroit, Michigan

June 30, 2010

Developing a Commons-Based Approach to Security

Redefining security in terms of our relationships and shared resources

April 28, 2009

The Commons is About 'Commoning'

Professor Louis Wolcher's impassioned video on the "meaning of the commons."

August 13, 2006

Latin American Mayor Fights for Equal Access to Happiness

Enrique Peñalosa improved the lives of Bogotá's poor

January 23, 2006

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Public Life in Private Places

June 30, 2001

The Hidden Commons