Commons case studies: the Guassa-Menz community conservation area in Ethiopia
Recommended by Dr. Andreas Weber: The Guassa-Menz community conservation area (Ethiopia)is a 400 year+ old grazing commons which helps protecting the world’s most endangered carnivore (Ethiopian Wolf,...
View ArticlePotential of Open Data for nature commons?
This is a question that came out quite clearly at the Commons Conference in 2010, but never got a complete answer (not one that was shared during that conference, at least, AFAIK): Open Data movement...
View ArticleSeeds as Commons
Anyone interested in special discussions on seeds and the commons? meeting at 1.30pm today(Thursday) at the flipchart at 1st Floor or contact Gregor at grek at jpberlin.de
View ArticleCare, Nature, Culture, Infrastructure and Money
Listening to the presentations this morning and yesterday afternoon, it was clear to me that the structure of money needs to be considered as a meta-element of the discussion of the commons, rather...
View ArticleCommons Cases: Open Source Energy in France
A contribution from Geoffroy Levy from Nantes: “A few words about a French project named Open Source Energy. This project is intended to enable the design of open hardware solutions to capture the...
View ArticleDialogue between Joshua Farley and Ugo Mattei: Reform vs. Revolution
Saki Bailey send us the following text from the preparatory Land and Nature stream discussions: “There are many beautiful examples of commons management in natural resources from the most ancient...
View ArticleRecommended policy reading: Monetary and Fiscal Policies for a Finite Planet
Recommended by Saki Bailey: * Paper: Monetary and Fiscal Policies for a Finite Planet. By Joshua Farley, Matthew Burke et al. Abstract “Current macroeconomic policy promotes continuous economic growth....
View ArticleNiyamgiri’s tribe protest against mining on their sacred mountain
Video and text provided by Soma Parthasarathy: Video 1: A second video: Some additional details: “Under a scorching sun, after walking miles and miles in the hilly terrain, these bare feet have come...
View ArticleTowards the establishment of a Global Climate Commons Regime
Excerpted from John Jopling: “Just as the actions of Henri Dunant and his friends led to the setting up of the International Commission of the Red Cross, so an independent Global Climate Commons Regime...
View ArticleA critique of Andreas Weber’s Enlivenment thesis as reverse social darwinism
In a previous post, we will republish Andreas Weber’s beautiful and interesting essay, * “Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics. Heinrich Boell...
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