The Commons

14 publications

• Stir Magazine : Winter 2021

  January 2021

  Stir to action

• Stir Magazine Issue 30, Summer 2020 ‍Commoning Innovations for a Post-Pandemic World

  Stir to Action, Bridport, UK, July 2020

  Stir to action

• The Urban Commons Cookbook: Strategies and Insights for creating and maintaining Urban Commons

  Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, Nils Eik Zimmermann, Nicole de Vries, 2020

• From What is to What If. Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want.

  Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2019

• Plunder of the Commons. A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth.

  Guy Standing, A Pelican Book, August 2019

• The commons and a New Global Governance

  Edited by Samuel Cogolati, Jan Wouters, Edward Elgar Publishing, December 2018

• Moving Beyond Capitalism

  Edited by Cliff DuRand, Routledge, USA, August 2016

• Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise Governance and Democracy

  Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Denis Young, Philippe Eynaud, Routledge, USA, March 2015

• Patterns of Commoning

  The Commons strategy group

  coedited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, The Commons strategy group and Off the Common Press, 2015

• Think Like a Commoner. A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons.

  David Bollier, New society Publishers, United States, April 2014

• The Zero Marginal Cost Society. The internet of things, the collaborative commons and the eclipse of capitalism

  Jeremy Rifkin, Palgrave Macmillan;NY, USA, April 2014

• The wealth of the Commons. A world beyond Market & State

  Edited by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich, Levellers Press, United States, December 2012

• Sharing for Survival. Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society.

  Brian Davey, FEASTA, Ireland, April 2012

• Understanding Knowledge as a Commons From Theory to Practice

  Edited by Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom, The MIT Press, December 2006

A thesis

• Towards a New Form of Economic Development:. Why the need for an Ownership Revolution Has Neve Been Greater.

  Dissertation Economics for Transition, SchumacherCollege MA , Great Britain

  Jerome Birolini, August 2014

13 Videos

• Going local: reclaiming the commons, building resilience with Chris Wood

  Video by Local Futures

  January 2022

• Audio : Neera SIngh, on Community Forests in India

  August 2020

• The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination

  Prairie Festival 2018 -The Land Institute

  September 2018

• Videos Commons-based Collaborative Economies Procomuns 2017

  June 2017

• Food as a Common Good (José Luis Vivero)

  January 2017

• Transform/er Montreal 2016 - John Restakis

  May 2016

• Voices of the Impact Economy: Michael Lewis and Michel Bauwens on Economic Democracies

  October 2015

• Interview of David Bollier and Benjamin Coriat on the commons

  Frédéric Sultan, Sylvia FREDRIKSSON, June 2015

• Transformative proposals of the p2p foundation. Michel Bauwens.

  June 2015

• APSARA CHAPAGAIN KHATR - Federation of community Forestry Users (FECOFUN) - Nepal

  February 2014

• Occupying the Commons - Teatro Valle Occupato

  August 2012

• Film: This Land is our land

  David Bollier, December 2010

• Conference on Economic Degrowth: David Barkin, Barcelona, 2010

  March 2010

A pedagogical tool

• Polypoly. The 21th Century economic world-building game

  June 2020

One proposal

• The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, October 2009

  CCCR, NEF, BALTA

4 case studies

• Bike Kitchen Bratislava: A bike hire co-op powered by the sharing economy

  Bicycles | Urban Commons Cookbook Series

  Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, July 2020

• Cultivating commons in the heart of the city. Madrid community gardens against austerity urbanism

  3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminarn Welfaire societies in Transition, Roskilde, April 2018

  José Luis Fernández Casadevante, Nerea Morán Alonso, Ángel Calle Collado, Nuria del Viso, April 2018

  EMES

• Towards “Qualitative growth”-oriented Collective Action Frameworks: Articulating Commons and Solidarity Economy

  3rd EMES-Polanyi International Seminarn Welfaire societies in Transition, Roskilde, April 2018

  Ana Margarida Esteves, April 2018

  EMES

• Nepal’s Community Forest in the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy

  Submitted to the Asian Solidarity Economy Council, on the occasion of the 5th RIPESS International Meeting of SSE, Manila, Philippines, October, 15-18, 2013.

  Bhola Bhattarai, Ram Prasad Acharya, Gyanendra Karki, Suman Dhakal, October 2013

44 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Book : The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking : Tools for the transitions ahead

  Edited by the Schumacher Intitute for a New Economics

  David Bollier, January 2022

• Must-read essays to understand the emerging peer to peer paradigm

  April 2020

• Commons and Commoning for a Just Agroecological Transition: The importance of de-colonising and de-commodifying our food systems

  In book: Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions (pp.61-84)Publisher: Routledge book series “Food, Society and the Environment”.

  Tomaso Ferrando, Priscilla Claeys, Dagmar Diesner, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, December 2019

• Report: P2P accounting for planetary survival

  Michel Bauwens, Alex Pazaitis, August 2019

• Our Commons. Political ideas for a New Europe

  Sophie Bloemen, Thomas de Groot, May 2019

• A unanimous cry of dissent against the regime

  Word Social Forum of Transformative Economies

  Ruben Surinyach Padilla, April 2019

• Book : Peer to Peer : The Commons Manifesto

  London, University of Westminster Press

  Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis, March 2019

• Book : Re-enchanting the World. Feminism and the politics of the Commons

  Kairos publishing

  Silvia Federici, 2019

• The History And Evolution Of The Commons

  Michel Bauwens, June 2018

• Chapter 24 - FOOD AS COMMONS :Towards a new relationship between the public, the civic and the private

  in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF FOOD AS A COMMONS: (pp. 373-396)

  Olivier De Schutter, Ugo Mattei, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, Tomaso Ferrando, 2018

• Providing public goods and commons. Towards coproduction and new forms of governance for a revival of public action

  CIRIEC Studies Series – No. 1

  AA.VV., 2018

  CIRIEC

• A Commons Transition Plan for the City of Ghent

  Michel Bauwens, Yurek Onzia, September 2017

• Understanding Cooperative Finance as a new common

  Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, vol.88, pp.155-177

  Anaïs Périlleux, Marthe Nyssens, January 2017

  CIRIEC

• Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting

  Co-published by Heinrich-Böll-Foundation & P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Niaros, January 2017

• The food commons in Europe: Relevance, challenges and proposals to support them

  Document presented and discussed during the first meeting of the European Commons Assembly, 15-17 November 2016, Brussels

  Jose Luis Vivero Pol, November 2016

• “Territories of Commons” in Europe: pivotal for food production, nature stewardship, heritage maintenance and climate mitigation

  Extended document presented and discussed during the first meeting of the European Commons Assembly, 15-17 November 2016, Brussels

  Jose Luis Vivero Pol, November 2016

• Unifying commons-based projects in a self-organised solidarity economy

  Commons Institute Christian Siefkes, Johannes Euler, Gunter Kramp, Nikolas Kichler, November 2016

• Building a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth

  Jessica Gordon-Nembhard,, April 2016

• Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

  David Bollier, April 2016

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• Transition towards a food commons regime: re-commoning food to crowd-feed the world

  Jose Luis Vivero Pol, September 2015

• Public Policy for a Social Economy

  Journal of peer Production, issue #7

  John Restakis, July 2015

• Redefining and combating poverty Human rights, democracy and common goods in today’s Europe

  Trends in social cohesion, No. 25 Council of Europe Publishing

  AA.VV., 2015

• No commons without a community

  Community Dev J (2014) 49 (suppl 1): i106-i117 :Commons Sense New thinking about an old idea

  Maria Mies, 201401/

• Regulation on collaboration between citizens and the city for the care and a regeneration of urban commons

  City of Bologna, Italy

  City of Bologna, December 2014

• The social commons: reconciling social protection and the universal basic income

  XIV JORNADAS DE ECONOMÍA CRÍTICA. Perspectivas económicas alternativas Valladolid, 4 y 5 de septiembre de 2014

  Francine Mestrum, September 2014

• Commons against and beyond capitalism

  Community Development Journal, 49(SI), pp. i92-i105

  George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, January 2014

• eBook: Sharing Revolution: The essential economics of the commons

  Jessica Conrad, 2014

• Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System

  Jose Luis Vivero Pol, April 2013

• The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy

  the good society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2013

  Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, 2013

• Gardening is about people! Case studies about urban gardening in Brussels between commons and degrowth [working paper]

  OSSERVATORIO CORES - WORKING PAPER SERIES 3 : 2013

  Elisabetta CANGELOSI,, 2013

• Economic democracy: A path for the future?

  Futures Volume 44, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 562–570

  Nadia Johanisova, Stephan Wolf, August 2012

• Proposals for a Fair and Democratic Architecture of Power

  contribution to the Peoples’ Summit, Rio+20, June 2012

  June 2012

  FnGM

• Blueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy

  Michel Bauwens, April 2012

• The commons: (Co)managing commonly owned resources

  Proceedings of the symposium of 9 March 2012 in Brussels, Belgium

  Ghislain ERREMBAULT, March 2012

• The Best of Three Worlds. Home Ownership combines housing affordability with equity and fairness.

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• Affordability Locked In. Community land trusts – good news for households, communities, & taxpayers

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• Agroecologically efficient agricultural systems for smallholder farmers: contributions to food sovereignty

  gronomy for Sustainable Development Official journal of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Springer

  Miguel A. Altieri, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote, Paulo Petersen, November 2011

• From ‘Common Goods’ to the ‘Common Good of Humanity’

  Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Brussels

  François Houtart, November 2011

• Solidarity-based and co-operative economy and ethical business. Trends, Innovations and Experiences in Europe

  Sonia Buglione, Rainer Schlüter, November 2010

• The Commons- Prosperity by Sharing

  Silke Helfrich, Rainer Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs, Christian Siefkes, December 2009

  Heinrich Böll Foundation

• Global Resource Management. Conflict Potential and Characteristics of a Global Governance Regime

  The present Policy Paper is on the issue of global resource management and key options for action.

  Raimund Bleischwitz, Stefan Bringezu, December 2007

• The Water Court of the Vega de Valencia

  2004

• Limits to property.The failure of restrictive property regimes in the modern world

  Andrew Simms, Jo Drury, Kim Trathen, September 2003

  NEF

3 public contributions

• The International Commons Conference, Berlin, Germany, Nov 1, 2010

  An Interpretive Summary by David Bollier

  David Bollier, November 2010

  Heinrich Böll Foundation

• From Common Wealth to Common Property

  February 2006 issue of Vermont Commons, USA.

  Peter Barnes, 2006

  NEI

• Salmon Economics (and other lessons)

  Twenty-Third Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2003, Stockbridge, MA

  Andrew Kimbrell, October 2003

  NEI

9 articles

• Mondeggi 2026: re-imagining the farm as a common of the future

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, January 2023

  Jason Nardi, January 2023

  Solidarius Italia, RIPESS Europe

• Commons and Solidarity Economy: Italian networks create new synergies

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

  Virginia Meo, February 2021

  RIPESS Europe, RIES

• The project of La Coop des Communs

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

  Nicole Alix, February 2021

  RIPESS Europe

• The RIUESS Meeting on Commons (2016)

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

  Carmen Parra Rodríguez, February 2021

  RIPESS Europe, RIUESS

• Commonspoly: the counter-Monopoly game

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - February 2021

  February 2021

  RIPESS Europe

• Gar Alperovitz about Community Ownership, basis 6 for Synthecracy

  Article of The Connectivist, June 14, 2020

  June 2020

• Corona and the Commons

  Michel Bauwens, April 2020

• What are ‘the commons’ in the 21st century? Interview with Pat Conaty

  Article of lowimpact.org

  February 2019

• What is municipalism and why is it gaining presence in Spain?

  Article from UnitedExplanations, 16/01/2016

  January 2016

Web sites :

• On the Commons
• Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas
• Commons Strategies Group
• PEKEA
• Forum Mondial des Alternatives
• GRESEA - Groupe de recherche pour une strategié économique alternative
• REDESS Colombia
• unimondo.org
• Economia del bien Comun
• Commons Abundance Network
• Benecomune.net
• Re: Common
• comune info
• Movimiento Agroecologico de América Latina y el Caribe - MAELA
• Economia del Bien Comun Chile
• Beautiful solutions
• David Bollier. news and perspectives on the commons
• COMUNE.INFO
• Remix the Commons