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Engaging Commons - Update on The Knight Foundation News Challenge
The finalists of the Knight Foundation News Challenge were announced on April 13th, and unfortunately, our project did not make it. We will nonetheless pursue it as we believe time has come for such a...
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To Bring About a Sustainable Economy We are facing a systemic crisis of great magnitude, which requires radical thinking and action at all levels. We find ourselves in a logic that tells us that the...
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The Commons at the Core of our Next Economic Models?
Photo: Sylvan Sunset | Scott Carpenter CC BYEvery day new voices speak up against the toxicity of an economy based on credit-fueled growth depleting finite resources and destroying much of the social...
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Rio+20 – Tragedy of the Commons 2.0?
Are the discussions on sustainability at Rio about to end once more with no serious commitment to the fundamental transformations needed? These coming three days will be decisive with heads of state...
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'Common-Sense Commons' as a guiding vision for a Self-Caring System &...
Our World is in crisis as its systems have been pushed toward exceeding their limits of resilience. Much of what we care for and need in the various aspects of our lives is under threat. We need a...
View ArticleGrowing the Commons as Meta-narrative?
How about 'Growing the Commons' as a meta-narrative for a paradigm shift?Ann Pendleton-Jullian in her Power and Ecosystems of Change talk suggests that a new type of metanarrative is much needed to...
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Economics and the Commons Conference - Highlights
The Economics and the Commons Conference in Berlin closed last month. Everyone acknowledged the ground that had been covered since the last edition in 2010. Now is the moment to digest and reflect on...
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Rethinking Sustainable Development in terms of Commons
Wouldn't sustainable development initiatives, mechanisms and policies considerably gain in effectiveness if they were planned and assessed in relation to the principles, processes and practices of the...
View ArticleFederating disparate efforts towards a thrivable word...
Federating efforts towards a thrivable world from Helene Finidori I gave this presentation as part of the Cultural Diversity and the Common Good panel at the ‘Imagine the...
View ArticleReinventing movements
There has been a very interesting roundtable in the US last november on reinventing movements following Occupy.Douglas Rushkoff had initially talked about the need for "bringing together all these...
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