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The CREDIT COMMONS is a proposed accounting system to allow users of any local currency to exchange with any other.

Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg via Foter.com / CC BY. Article cross-posted from Bollier.org.

The Market/State is in crisis and representative democracy seems to be broken. Many argue, that both problems need to be adressed for the sake of social coherence and security. We think, that adressing them properly implies rethinking the core ideas state power and representative democracy are based upon. After all, there is nothing in the current institutional arrangment or in the system of representation through political parties defending the commons: nor as a special type of institutions, nor as a world-view, nor as a plethora of social practices.  

The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons.

This morning, I'm reading this article. It's a review of two books charting the changes in fishing practices in the north eastern Pacific over the last century. I've been witness to some of thes

A few times a year, we round up the top new books about cities, sharing, collaboration, social tech, movement trends and more. Here are 21 books worth checking out for Shareable summer reading.

By jose ramos in Energy Economics and Social Policy. Brings together 34 contributions which explore policy options and strategies for creating cities as commons - common pool resources - for urban development and transformation. Each contribution

There are, I believe, four types of commons to distinguish ... The first type is the immaterial commons we inherit, such as language and culture. The second type is the immaterial commons we create. This is where the hugely important knowledge and digital commons come in (since it this digital commons that is currently exploding). The third type is the material commons we inherit, the oceans, the atmosphere, the forests, etc.; and the fourth type is the as yet underappreciated potential for the created material commons, i.e. productively manufactured resources.

Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts —  where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani—  we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →

David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."

How can we use "commoning" as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? In his paper for our "New Systems: Possibilities an

Can the State the re-imagined for a commons-centric world – and, can Commoners come up with creative action initiatives to advance a this vision.

Yet another? But yet another what? One does not even know. Once more tens of people killed, many more injured. Once more, a human being has carried them over towards death and suffering in his trajectory of violence and self-destruction. And both ISIS and most western commentators rush to describe him as the soldier of a cause when one does not even know if and when he discovered it.

In his recent paper, Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm, author, activist and commons scholar David Bollier argues that the commons, which he describes as “at once a paradigm, a discourse, an ethic, and a set of social practices,” holds great promise in transcending the conundrum of imagining and building a “radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change.”

Welcome to “perhaps the geekiest of all cooperative organizations on the planet!” The Data Commons Co-op . The co-op not only serves these communities, it is owned by them. The Data Commons Co-op, like a food or housing co-op, is owned by its members. The members have some fundamental differences, and many differences of emphasis and priorities. But like the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Popular Front of Judea, they have a lot in common. This co-op is a way to share the cost of tending a commons of overlapping data, and realizing the benefits that brings to all.

Pixelache Helsinki wants to bring key members of ZEMOS98 collective to the 2016 edition of their festival, under the campaign title 'CopyLove Helsinki'

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmrGqzl96L8 I recommend this lecture by the famous Yochai Benkler (Harvard). This is spot on since it shows that P2P Cooperatives must have a SHARED CORE ( a Commons) from the start that is not centrally power-controlled (state) or commercialy exploited by selfish greed (market focus). It should be stressed that this does not mean…

Program Professors: Axel Gosseries Maxime Lambrecht   Karl Widerquist  When:  18-20 July 2016 Where:   Auditório novo do Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas (ILCH),  ​ Universit

Earlier this month, Shareable posted a short article about the Little Free Pantry in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Created by Jessica McClard, the Pantry is an easy way for people to share surplus food and household goods, and access items they may need.