The Fix-It Shop Where Neighbors Repair Your Clothes and Electronics
Three years ago, they started a program to keep salvageable goods from landfills by harnessing the community鈥檚 collective skills to fix them.
Local power
8 Strategies for Confronting Hate (That Don鈥檛 Involve a Safety Pin)
Everyday heroism like standing up for someone in trouble means pushing past your own fear. Here's how to do so with caution and courage.
20 Ways to Take a Bigger, Louder Stand in the Post-Election World
Many of us are rekindling our activist spirit knowing that the next four years will require everyone to act.
How I Stopped Mindlessly Buying Things
Stores want me to buy stuff I don鈥檛 need. The internet wants me to buy stuff I don鈥檛 need. But I finally figured it out.
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened By Trumpism
Cities can offer shelter and protection to their vulnerable citizens and become a place progressives can exert real power.
As #BankBlack Moves Money, Black Credit Unions Are Ready
While the number of Black-owned banks is down to only 22, there are 318 Black credit unions uniquely positioned to invest in their communities.
How One San Francisco Neighborhood Became 鈥淚mmune鈥� to Gentrification
With more than a quarter of the Tenderloin鈥檚 housing stock owned by nonprofits or the government, longtime residents have staying power.
Meet the Solutionaries: Kids Skip Scary Climate Coverage to Focus on Local Changemakers
These high school students created a series of podcasts to tell the stories of inspiring people in their community.
The NSA鈥檚 Spying Program: What鈥檚 at Stake for the Climate Movement?
Programs such as Prism would likely be used to hamper the social movements we need to tackle the biggest problems of our time.
Occupied Istanbul: Scenes from the Front Lines
Thousands of people are sleeping in a public park to protest the actions of the Turkish government. Check out this photo essay for a view of daily life, music, and politics inside Turkey鈥檚 homegrown occupation.
Better than Cyber Utopia: How the Internet Helped Us Create the Sharing Economy
Back in the 鈥�90s, people thought the Internet was going to open up a zone of perfect cyber-freedom. It didn鈥檛 work out that way. But the Internet鈥檚 real significance may be found elsewhere: in a growing sector of the economy based around peer-to-peer sharing networks.
For Thriving Public Spaces, Just Add Seating
Could it be as simple as that? Author Jonathan Rowe thought so, and tried it out in his own hometown.
Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever
If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.
51 Ways to Spark a Commons Revolution
What you can do, alone and with others, to share life.
Invest in the Sock Exchange鈥攁nd Other Ways to Join the Sharing Revolution
When we share as much stuff as possible, we walk more lightly on the earth and often improve our quality of life.
Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
How Commerce Consumed the Commons
In a world where everything's for sale, we've forgotten that much of value happens outside the stream of commerce. Here's how we forgot--and how we're reclaiming the commons.
The Demand for the Common Good
What happens when economic growth produces more 鈥渋llth鈥� than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life鈥攖he commons?
The Lake And the ‘hood
Mono Lake activists fought a 16-year David-versus-Goliath battle against the city's Department of Water and Power (DWP) to stop water diversions to Los Angeles. Yet the rural community and the city have emerged from the fray as watershed partners.
A Watershed Runs Through You
The struggle to bring back endangered salmon draws one community into a new commitment to the well-being of its watershed
Where There鈥檚 a Way
Where there's a way, by Michael M鈥橤onigle.
Global Trade Agreements are just the latest way local
communities are losing control over the surrounding forests and
the watersheds. If there was a way to reclaim the commons,
might there also be a political will?
Great Commons of the World
Great commons of the World, by Kari McGinnis.
Commons are places where people gather and community blossoms.
Examines the qualities that make a good commons and describes
some of the best in the world.
The Cornucopia of the Commons
Community gardens, free software, self-help groups,
and other examples of how the gift economy fosters community
and social cohesion as well as economic
innovation.
Transportation and The Making of Cities
鈥淎 city should be a place of exuberance and exaltation of the human spirit, a place for celebration and public 'happenings', for rich and easy encounter, for relaxation and enjoyment.鈥�
E.R.Wickham
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