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Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity

Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene Anatomical heart drawing I’ve spent most of the past 2 years travelling with my partner Nati, trying to discover what is the most strategic & wise action to take in a world that […]

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Book Review: The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft

Book Review: The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft The threat posed by global warming and environmental degradation are the most pressing examples of what has become known over the past several decades as the ‘tragedy of the commons’. In this book, Derek Wall explores the work of the late Nobel Laureate, […]

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Community Development and the Commons

Community Development and the Commons The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. Last August, 200 people from across Oakland, California came together to envision and design a development plan for a small parcel of public land. For months leading up to […]

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Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society

Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society Christian Arnsperger: My colleague Dominique Bourg (also from the University of Lausanne) and myself have just released a new book in French, entitled Ecologie intégrale: Pour une société permacirculaire(translation: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society), published in Paris by Presses Universitaires de France. It’s the culmination of a […]

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Property Rights, Inequality and Commons

Property Rights, Inequality and Commons I recently spoke at a conference, “Property and Inequality in the 21st Century,” hosted by The Common Core of European Private Law, an annual gathering of legal scholars, mostly from Europe.  They had asked me how the commons might be a force for reducing inequality.  Below are my remarks, “The […]

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In Defense of the Commons

In Defense of the Commons “Enclosures have appropriately been called a revolution of the rich against the poor.” Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation. 1944. (p. 35)          Shared access, reliance, use and governance of natural resources is a common form of tenure in the world, North and South, rural and urban.  The specific rules and institutions […]

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