Clik here to view.
The Man Who Quit Money
What does it mean to live without money? Is it possible? And how does it change one’s outlook on life and human relationships? I stumbled across a wonderful book, The Man Who Quit Money (Riverhead...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Quiet Realization of Ivan Illich's Ideas in the Contemporary Commons...
For the past three days I've been attending a fantastic conference, "After the Crisis: The Thought of Ivan Illich today," in Oakland, California, at the Oakland School for the Arts. Illich was an...
View ArticleThe Thought of Ivan Illich Today
I had always admired Ivan Illich for his penetrating insights into the pathologies of modern life and the human condition. Like dormant seeds, they sprouted at just the right time in my life and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dougald Hine on Commoning in the City
The Summer issue of STIR is rich with thoughtful, provocative articles on the commons: pieces on urban aquaponics and student housing coops, a how-to guide for saving the seeds from your tomatoes,...
View ArticleDavid Harvey on the Tyranny of Exchange Value
David Harvey, the Marxist geographer, is working on a new book, The Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism. He has a illuminating interview on this theme in Red Pepper, the UK political magazine....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bauwens Joins Ecuador in Planning a Commons-based, Peer Production Economy
Here’s a development that could have enormous global implications for the search for a new commons-based economic paradigm. Working with an academic partner, the Government of Ecuador has launched a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gandhian Economics and the Commons
In a recent post on her blog, Fearless Heart (a post that also appears at Psychology Today), Miki Kashtan, cofounder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, brought forward some fascinating connections...
View ArticleMy Dialogue with 'Corporate Sustainability Architect' Bill Baue
A few weeks ago I had an extensive dialogue with Bill Baue, a “corporate sustainability architect” who works with corporations and others to design “systemic transformation and company-level...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HowlRound Brings Commoning to the Theater
American culture has been dominated for so long by Hollywood, Broadway and the nonprofit industrial complex that it is hard to imagine theatrical performance without the stars, the spectacle, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Zealand's Freerange Explores the Commons
A New Zealand publication, Freerange, has published an artful collection of essays about the commons for a popular readership. The publication focuses on a wide range of commons themes, including...
View Article