Overview

• What are the commons and peer to peer networks? https://primer.commonstransition.org/#home
• The commons: Value networks of mutual commitment, Living social systems, A paradigm of governance, provisioning, and social practice, A relational ontology
• Elinor Ostrom’s work on the commons and how communities self organise https://wle.cgiar.org/news/elinor-ostrom-“non-tragedy-commons” and obituary https://www.economist.com/obituary/2012/06/30/elinor-ostrom
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• George Monbiot articles on commons: https://www.monbiot.com/2017/10/02/common-wealth/ and https://www.monbiot.com/2016/12/15/the-fortifying-commons/
• David Bollier podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005?i=1000618938413

Organisations & Examples

• Ujima Boston - https://www.ujimaboston.com/
• Employee ownership https://project-equity.org/
• Employee ownership https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/about-fifty-by-fifty/
• Common Wealth https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/
• Resource Generation https://resourcegeneration.org/transformative-investment-principles/
• Access to land Europe https://www.accesstoland.eu/index.php
• Agrarian trust USA https://www.agrariantrust.org/
• Terre de Liens https://terredeliens.org/
• Tosepan Puebla Mexico https://medium.com/@localfutures/unión-de-cooperativas-tosepan-58f9d96086ec
• Mondragon Spain https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/
• Via campesina https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EN-WEB-Annual_Report_2019.pdf
• Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn (2h45 mins unpaid work every 4 weeks, below market prices, whoever joins the coop is both a member and an owner)
• Iriaiken - Japan - collective ownership of non-arable areas like mountains, marshes, riverbeds, offshore fisheries - with peer enforced regulations for usage. example of matsutake mushroom gatherers in villages. mushroom roots are a vast underground system that sprawls entire village and has no regard for property boundaries.