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=== Answers to the question: "What do you mean by "The Commons?" ===
== External links ==
* commons is a way to 'copy write' stuff and 'open source' is commonly held soft ware ... see also, some medicines and windmills ...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
* Boston is full of Victorian easements ... the common paths, as well as town greens (grazing land) ...
* The Commoner
* 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.
* The Commons: Open Society Sustainability Initiative
* 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.]
* On the Commons - dedicated to exploring ideas and action about the commons—which encompasses natural assets such as oceans and clean air as well as cultural endowments like the Internet, scientific research and the arts.
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* The Peer to Peer Foundation
 
* iCommons
http://www.celdf.org/about-us
* Earth Commons Rising - forum of global commons events
* The Factory of the Common - network of research events that explore the dimension of the ‘common’ and its institutions in times of financial crisis and cognitive capitalism.
* International Journal of the Commons - an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.
* The Land Magazine
* Introduction to the Commons at Permanent Culture Now
* http://www.gcgi.info/news/175-an-invitation-to-attend-the-2012-gcgi-annual-conference
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* External links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_the_Commons
* Original article by Garrett Hardin from Science (journal)
* The Digital Library of the Commons
* The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
* The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons by Ian Angus
* Global Tragedy of the Commons by John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett
* Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs by Ryan Somma
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* http://www.celdf.org/about-us

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External links

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
  • The Commoner
  • The Commons: Open Society Sustainability Initiative
  • On the Commons - dedicated to exploring ideas and action about the commons—which encompasses natural assets such as oceans and clean air as well as cultural endowments like the Internet, scientific research and the arts.
  • The Peer to Peer Foundation
  • iCommons
  • Earth Commons Rising - forum of global commons events
  • The Factory of the Common - network of research events that explore the dimension of the ‘common’ and its institutions in times of financial crisis and cognitive capitalism.
  • International Journal of the Commons - an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.
  • The Land Magazine
  • Introduction to the Commons at Permanent Culture Now
  • http://www.gcgi.info/news/175-an-invitation-to-attend-the-2012-gcgi-annual-conference
  • External links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_the_Commons
  • Original article by Garrett Hardin from Science (journal)
  • The Digital Library of the Commons
  • The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
  • The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons by Ian Angus
  • Global Tragedy of the Commons by John Hickman and Sarah Bartlett
  • Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs by Ryan Somma
  • http://www.celdf.org/about-us
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