People Systems
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Commons Way of Life vs. Market Way of Life
by Silke Helfrich The market has always been with us. What’s new about life in the last three hundred years…
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Ecuador Takes First Step Toward a Commons Economy
Government sponsors research on how to transition to commoning and open networks. by David Bollier A child during a parade…
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The Promise of the Commons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnNy0WkWbE Regular readers may remember an article I posted back in 2010 — Kings, Conquerors, Capitalism and Resilience Lost —…
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Building the New Commons
Humanity’s strength is in groups. In fact, It is our way of cooperating and communicating together in small and large…
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How a Commons Way of Life Helps Curb Climate Change
It offers an appealing alternative to more stuff and more money, which drives environmental destruction today. It’s easy to not…
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This Collapse is a ‘Crisis of Bigness’
Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s…
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Designing Authentic Community
Humankind can never do the important work of re-designing our agricultural systems on a community scale with dysfunctional and alienated…
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Permaculture Explains the Political Control Matrix, and the Solutions – Part 1
by Peter Greg The idea of how Permaculture parallels with politics has been a question that has been stuck in…
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Do We Really Need Compulsory Schooling? An Interview with Peter Gray
Marcin Gerwin: It seems almost natural that when children reach the age of six or seven they go to school.…
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Grow Heathrow: Response to Comments
Photo: Transition Heathrow Having received some rather interesting comments on the article about Grow Heathrow, I felt it worthwhile to…
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Food Feudalism and the Invention of the Wilderness
Humans, in this current form, have been around for about 100,000 years. Until agriculture went mainstream about 10,000 years ago,…
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Jared Diamond: How Societies Can Grow Old Better (TED video)
There’s an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It’s no picnic to be an old person in…
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