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The Commons Explained in 15 Minutes | David Bollier
New to the Commons? | David Bollier
If you’re coming to the commons for the first time, it can be difficult to grok the idea because there are so many different ways to understand the commons. That’s because the commons is not so much a fixed, universal thing as a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing resources -- all sorts of resources: digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, to use some crude categories.
experiments/second-sky/README.md at main · oaustegard/experiments
Random vibe-experiments. Contribute to oaustegard/experiments development by creating an account on GitHub.
A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons
A Revised “Ostrom’s Design Principles for Collective Governance of the Commons” The traditional economic definition of “the commons” are those resources...

The Commons | Join Our Unique Community
Discover The Commons: A multi-generational Co-Housing community fostering sustainable living and connection in Santa Fe. Learn about our homes, lifestyle, and how to get involved.

This Colchester cohousing project will change how you think about community living
Elinor Ostrom’s 8 rules for managing the commons
The commons are those things that we all own together, that are neither privately owned, nor managed by the government on our behalf. Some are large scale and somewhat abstract, such as the English…

Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times | David Bollier
I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series. U!REKA -- which stands for Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance -- is a consortium of eight European universities that studies urban commons. The subtitle of my talk was "Find Answers by Living the Questions."
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Shifting the Suburbs: How to talk with suburban Australians about climate and energy
This guide is for communicators talking about climate and energy with suburban audiences. This guide primarily draws on 2026 research by RedBridge Group for the Climate Council: a survey of 2009 voters across the middle and outer suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, plus focus groups, against a backdrop of war in Iran, fuel price […]

2022 Australian Federal Election Analysis
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

The Commons, Short and Sweet | David Bollier
I am always trying to figure out how to explain the idea of the commons to newcomers who find it hard to grasp. In preparation for a talk that I gave at the Caux Forum for Human Security, near Montreux, Switzerland, I came up with a fairly short overview, which I have copied below. I think it gets to the nub of things.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level - Candidate School
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons
I recently read Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons and have been evangelizing it so enthusiastically that I figured I’d do a quick…
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News
In Brief: Two motions regarding

"Wandering towards dystopia": CSIRO scientists want open discussion of climate impacts before it's too late
Huge gas-fired power station plan quietly revealed amid renewables fanfare
39 Governance Technical Report