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Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now

Submitted by George Pór
on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 09:24

In their new book, Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now, Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities.

The Inaugural Workshop of the School of Commoning with Remarkable Commoner Michel Bauwens

Submitted by markjagdev
on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 19:54

An overview of our Schools approach to commons learning, commoning, and our first workshop. With links to further discussions around major themes that arose on a wonderful day of commoning!

Brief Background to the Birth of the School of Commoning Against the backdrop of the continuing financial hardships being endured by ordinary everyday people around the globe, and the unbearable conditions giving rise...

Announcing the Birth of the School of Commoning! Open to All and Co-Learning Together

Submitted by markjagdev
on Sun, 05/22/2011 - 11:18

Dear Commons Learning Alliance members and interested parties...

George Por, Anna Betz, myself and others have co-founded the School of Commoning as an online and offline forum for commons education based in London. For more information please go to...

Canadians in conversation about reclaiming the commons

Submitted by George Pór
on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 06:02

Consumerism is a threat not only to the planet and its ecosystems but to the natural functioning of human society. Reclaiming and rebuilding the commons -- that is what we share and do together -- is fundamental to fulfilling the World Social Forums' declaration that 'a better world is possible.'

Evolving Open Commons Regions

Submitted by markjagdev
on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 18:43

“So much valuable knowledge is locally produced but underutilized because it is not freely shared.”~ Leonhard Dobusch (ref1)

What would a region or locality look like if knowledge was freely shared? Would the value within this knowledge be realized in our everyday lives, navigating our towns and cities? These were a few initial questions that lept into my mind when reviewing an account by Laurent Stranskraba of the Open Commons Region Linz event which was held on April 11th 2011 at the VHS Knowledge Tower...

Theory into practice

Submitted by janosabel
on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 14:47

A long overdue reform is still waiting to be enacted regarding an important area of commons. I am referring to the publicly created urban land values which at the moment acrues in full to owner occupiers instead of being fairly distributed the the whole community which creates it..

Learning has to come to an end eventually and the activism of reclaiming has to start. When will that happen?

(by the way, am I doing things wrong here or are some of the features still waiting to be implemented?)

Two serious games, where players address real-world challenges

Submitted by George Pór
on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 11:59
I’ve been working on the development of a global commons oriented game since I first watched Jane McGonigal’s TED talk. Reading her book, I started envisioning the game's core idea, challenges, and gameplay. As it frequently happens, when i become passionate and focused on a possibility, news, ideas, connections and other resources start showing up. The latest example is my serendipitous discovery that there's already a Commons game, where players address real-world challenges.

Commoning Anthropology

Submitted by Abraham Heinemann
on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 18:27

What this diagram is trying to display is that perhaps Anthropology in one of its fundamental aspects is an effort at seeing Culture as an everchanging Commons - Anthropology is the commoning of cultures?

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