Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals.
Who secretly owns Britain? Map of hidden UK property owners
Explore an interactive map of nearly 100,000 UK properties owned by offshore companies. In over 40% of cases, the real owner is hidden.
Company as a Commons
What if excess wealth derived from business couldn't be privatized? Through the levers of steward-ownership, companies can protect their purpose-oriented long term mission from the maligned incentives of absentee stakeholders.
Download the Full Report — Passing the Message Stick
We pay respect to our Elders and acknowledge the Traditional Owners who’ve cared for country since time immemorial. Sovereignty over this land was never ceded - it always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
Circular economy in demolition: Repurposing waste to fuel new builds
Evelyn Long discusses the importance of the UK’s circular economy in demolition and how it should not only be maintained, but pushed further
Steward Ownership, Sustainability, and Capitalism: Part 1
Reclaiming the Computing Commons
Hunter writes: The commodification and exploitation of nature; the enclosure of the intellectual and informational commons in medicine, agriculture, and other areas of technical knowledge; the expropriation of public space to secure profit-all define an economic system supposedly premised on freedom.
Oligarchy In the UK
This week: have Reform UK misunderstood their audience; some alternative UKs; and some notes on Kiwis.
On whose land?
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of on whose land will these be built? How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like meh.
Part II: USENET — Let's Return to Public Spaces
Usenet was what the Web is missing nowadays: a genuinely public space, with unclear ownership
Our Allies | Stop The Fuckery
Victorians for Nature exists to hold governments and corporations to account for the systematic destruction of nature in Victoria. And to demand better.
Think Like a Commoner | A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State.
Authority as Possession: Permissioned Spaces Deserve Better Than ACLs
Why Capability Trees are the right governance primitive for permissioned spaces.
The Ecology of Freedom
Murray Bookchin The Ecology of Freedom The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy 1982 Converted September 2018; footnotes, section spacing, and...
The sell-off of British businesses like ARM must stop | John Mills
As foreign investors buy up UK companies such as the technology firm ARM Holdings, we lose the profits and skills Britain so desperately needs
Community wealth building
As the UK’s leading organisation for community wealth building, we work with places to build fairer, more inclusive local economies.