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Co-operative Commonwealth: De-commodifying Land and Money Part 3

Today we present part 3 from Co-operative Commonwealth: De-commodifying Land and Money a paper prepared by Pat Conaty for the 13th International Karl Polanyi Conference at Concordia University,...

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Toward an Open Co-Operativism:

Toward an Open Co-Operativism: A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons by Pat Conaty and David Bollier “The power of open source principles, now proven beyond...

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A New Alignment of Movements? Part I: The General Challenge

by Pat Conaty and David Bollier “In September 2014, the Commons Strategies Group convened a three-day workshop in Meissen, Germany, of 25 policy advocates and activists from a variety of different...

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A New Alignment of Movements? Part II: Strategies for a Convergence of Movements

by Pat Conaty and David Bollier “In September 2014, the Commons Strategies Group convened a three-day workshop in Meissen, Germany, of 25 policy advocates and activists from a variety of different...

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From basic income to social dividend: sharing the value of common resources

By Rajesh Makwana It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform...

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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...

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Community Land Trusts, Urban Land Reform and the Commons

How do Community Land Trusts relate to the Commons? Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty developed this argument in detail in their book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state...

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Toward Regenerative Society: Plan for Rapid Transition

The Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team was pleasantly surprised while reading the Center for Planetary Culture‘s Plan for Rapid Transition, authored by Daniel Pinchbeck. It is a thorough and...

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The EU and the Commons: A Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy

How can we address the high prices of medicines that are straining health budgets? How can openly sharing green knowledge help an agreement at the climate change talks in Paris this year? How could...

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A Charter for Democracy

Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go? Four years after the groundbreaking revolutionary ruptures of 2011, violent repression and media invisibility have relegated these thriving...

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Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about...

COP21 is over but what do we do next? In the following paper Richard Heinberg and David Fridley argue that not only do we need a plan but, in fact, we need lots of them. Their essay, now republished...

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Unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy

The following text, written by Christian Siefkes, Johannes Euler and Gunter Kramp, showcases an idea for unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy that’s easy and...

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Policies for a Post-Growth Economy

Why are there limits to growth? How can we bring about a flourishing post-growth economy? Dr. Samuel Alexander — a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs  — originally wrote this paper for...

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The Real Circular Economy

How Relocalising Production With Not-For-Profit Business Models Helps Build Resilient and Prosperous Societies This Commons Transition Special Report was written by Sharon Ede, a sustainability ideas...

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Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth

This Commons Transition Special Report was originally authored by Jessica Gordon Nembhard for The Next System Project’s series of publications on systemic alternatives. It is now republished here with...

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A Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent

The context and structure of the report Executive summary by Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation, research) and Yurek Onzia (project coordination) This study [1] was commissioned and financed by the City of...

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The Catalan Integral Cooperative: an organizational study of a...

In this Commons Transition Special Report, George Dafermos documents the organizational model of one of the most interesting cooperative projects to have emerged in Europe in the age of crisis – the...

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