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=== Answers to the question: "What do you mean by "The Commons?" ===
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* commons is a way to 'copy write' stuff and 'open source' is commonly held soft ware ... see also, some medicines and windmills ...
 
* Boston is full of Victorian easements ... the common paths, as well as town greens (grazing land) ...
 
* Commons is the concept of certain things being "common property"...that which can NOT be taken for private property. It runs back to Roman law and before, Old Testament, MiddleEastern/Asian law, etc, and is now becoming a huge part of the environmental battle and battles for heritage protection, etc. If we can establish a "strong commons" that includes things like "the eco-system" or things more obscure things like "healthcare" or "a healthy food supply", what happens is that we establish our "right" to things. And then if people want to make profit on them, they can be "granted" a permit for whatever, which we can revoke, if we're not happy. So if someone pollutes the water, they have "taken" our water...that "taking" has more rights legally than someone simply releasing some pollutants against a regulation. Our current system of law is based on colonies being carved out and given away to governments who were/are put in place to enforce the rights of those colonial corporations to extract resources. Colonists took over the country and gave away the "right to commerce". That is illegal, by the way, in a country with a strong commons, and many consider the entire US to be an illegal government, accordingly. Latin American countries are falling over themselves adopting Commons language, by the way...to keep the capitalists at bay. Anyway, count on me to fill in that part. I'll probably link it to the wiki page that we started working on Commons on. I thought I'd already installed that link. I'll check again.
== External links ==
* Ah, commons.... "Land" and "money" are the only two common goods. You may want to read my "The economics of jubilation" that you can find [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=856905 here.]
* [http://www.commoner.org.uk/ The Commoner]
* [http://www.ecoplan.org/ The Commons: Open Society Sustainability Initiative]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_commons The Commons, Wikipedia Article]
* [http://www.cooperationcommons.com/node/361 The Cooperation Commons (COCO)]
* [http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ The Digital Library of the Commons]
* [http://www.worldcitizenpanels.org/forum/topics/earth-commons-rising Earth Commons Rising]
* [http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-report-from-the-economics-and-the-commons-conference?utm_content=shepard.patty%40gmail.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Read%20more&utm_campaign=Shareable%3A%20Turkey%27s%20urban%20uprising%20and%20the%20commonscontent A Report from the Economy and the Commons Conference]
* [http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing a Commons]
* [http://www.celdf.org/about-us Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Democracy School]
* [http://www.factoryofthecommon.org/ The Factory of the Common]
* [http://www.gcgi.info/news/175-an-invitation-to-attend-the-2012-gcgi-annual-conference Globalization for the Common Good Initiative]
* [http://www.greens.org/s-r/24/24-26.html Global Tragedy of the Commons by John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett]
* [http://beyondintractability.colorado.edu/booksummary/10430/ Book Summary of "Governing the Commons" by Elinor Ostrom]
* [http://icommons.org/ iCommons]
* [http://www.iascp.org/ The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)]
* [http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/ International Journal of the Commons]
* [http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/ The Land Magazine]
* [http://www.possible-futures.org/2012/01/03/a-movement-without-demands/ "A Movement Without Demands" by Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean]
* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/angus250808.html The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons by Ian Angus]
* [http://onthecommons.org/ On the Commons]
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives The Peer to Peer Foundation]
* [http://permaculture.tv/governing-the-commons-the-evolution-of-institutions-for-collective-action-by-elinor-ostrom/ PermaCulture's work on The Commons]
* [http://www.permanentculturenow.com/introduction-to-the-commons/ Introduction to the Commons at Permanent Culture Now]
* [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2012.724903 Revolution Underground? Critical Reflections on the Prospect of Renewing Occupation by Joseph G. Ramsey]
* [http://www.scq.ubc.ca/tragedy-of-the-commons-explained-with-smurfs/ Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs by Ryan Somma]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_the_Commons The Tragedy of the Commons, Wikipedia Article]
* [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/162/3859/1243 The Tragedy of the Commons, Original article by Garrett Hardin from Science Journal]

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