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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. 
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Portrait of a Paradigm Shift: The New Emerging from The Shell of the Old, an essay by David Bollier on the realities, and possibilities, of system change
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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A policy framework for dealing with the social and civic impacts of network platforms that enable new sorts of micro-rentals and piecemeal work.
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One of the more complicated issues facing most commons is how to raise capital in the face of dominant systems of finance hostile to commoning.
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For the Uncommons conference in Berlin on October 23, Michel Bauwens recently distilled his years of thinking about digital collaboration into a short text, “Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics.” The document describes the key pillars of “a mode of production and value creation that is free, fair and sustainable.” I am reproducing his entire text here because I think it is so succinct and seminal.
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For authors and their reader-communities, has conventional book publishing become obsolete or at least grossly inefficient and overpriced?
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Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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From open access platforms to managed digital commons: how can we unleash the enormous value that distributed, autonomous production can create.
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
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The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days. I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, "Reinventing Law for the Commons." The following public talk, which I gave at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on September 8, is a kind of companion piece. The theme: this year's celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and its significance for commoners today.
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The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days. I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, “Reinventing Law for the Commons.” The following public talk, which I gave at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on September 8, is a kind of companion piece. The theme: …
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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
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Portrait of a Paradigm Shift: The New Emerging from The Shell of the Old, an essay by David Bollier on the realities, and possibilities, of system change
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How can commoners meet their needs without replicating (perhaps in only modestly less harmful ways) the structural problems of the dominant money system?
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For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage resources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. In a short but influential essay published in Science in 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin gave the story a fresh formulation and a memorable tagline.
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One of the more complicated issues facing most commons is how to raise capital in the face of dominant systems of finance hostile to commoning.
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A new anthology of essays, Build the City: Perspectives on Commons and culture,powerfully confirms that the “city as a commons” meme is surging.
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The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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While much of the momentum to fight climate change is focused on political channels, there are parallel efforts using law to force government to take specific, enforceable actions to reduce carbon emissions. It’s a difficult battle, but in recent weeks two notable initiatives have gained further momentum – a court ruling relying on the public trust doctrine and a new human rights declaration that has broad international support.
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Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
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A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days. I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, "Reinventing Law for the Commons." The following public talk, which I gave at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on September 8, is a kind of companion piece. The theme: this year's celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and its significance for commoners today.
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Common wealth trusts address the two greatest flaws in contemporary capitalism—its relentless destruction of nature and widening of inequality.
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