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Commons Workshopson behalf of Schumacher North
School of CommoningEducation for Commons Culture & Social Renewal
cic
The Biosphere The Physiosphere The Noosphere
Natural or Inherited
Material Commons or Common Stock
Immaterial or Cultural Commons
COMMONS RESOURCES
COMMON POOL RESOURCES
PUBLIC GOODS
STEWARDED IN A COMMONS
PROVIDED BY PARTNER STATE
COMMONS RESOURCES
Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011
KEY FEATURES
MOVING FROM I TO WE
NETWORKED CIVIL SOCIETY - 21ST CENTURY COMMONING :-)
SOCIAL CHARTERS
CO-PRODUCTION
CO-GOVERNANCE & ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS - TOWARDS THE COMMONS TRUST - CIC’S, CLT’S
Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011
KEY FEATURES
PARTNERSHIP GOVERNMENT
CONSCIOUS MARKETS - CIC’S, CO-OPERATIVES, ETC
COMMONS MONEY
COMMONS PROPERTY
COMMONS TRUSTS Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011
PRINCIPLES
PLURALISM -- A WIDE VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATE IN HORIZONTAL DECISION-MAKING OF ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEM
SUBSIDIARITY -- CITIZENS TAKE DECISIONS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL OF AUTHORITY
POLYCENTRISM -- DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT IN THE USE, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF A RESOURCE
CHECKS & BALANCES -- STAKEHOLDERS CREATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR GOVERNANCE, REBALANCING THE MARKET’S DOMINATION OF GOVERNMENT Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011
PRINCIPLES
RESOURCE USERS
BECOME THE PRODUCERS
OF THEIR OWN RESOURCES
COMMONS TIMELINE
A Brief History of the Commons
• < 10’000 BC Egalitarian Tribes - The peer 2 peer dynamic where users are the producers of their own resources. Functional Components: Land
• 10’000 BC Agricultural Revolution - 1st Economic Shift: onwards things began to change, then a division of labour and creation of cities in 4’000BC. Functional components: Land & Labour
• 535 Emperor Justinian - res communes those resources that couldn’t be owned by private or public sector.
COMMONS TIMELINE
A Brief History of the Commons
• 1215 - Magna Carta, Charter of the Forest • 1300s - Enclosures began in Europe. • 1500s - 2nd Economic Shift: Science & Industrial Rev. Functional components: Land, Labour & Capital
COMMONS TIMELINE
• 1960s - 3rd Economic Shift: Systems paradigm, electronic rev, instantaneous communication, internet. • 1968 - Garret T Hardin’s 1968 article in Science Magazine. • 1970s - Study of commons, discovered commons are a rich source of community and culture. • 2009 - Elinor Ostrom - Nobel Prize for Economics 2009 - was a huge milestone for the commons movement.
A Brief History of the Commons
THE END OF AN ERA
When we look at the long history of the commons we can see that:
Todays economy is not a recession. It is the end of an era
EXAMPLES - LOCAL
COMMUNITY BILL OF RIGHTS
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
e.g, Ecuador adding Rights for Nature to its Constitution
e.g., Pittsburgh stripping drilling corporations of corporate constitutional “rights,” such as corporate “personhood”
EXAMPLES - LOCAL
FOOD COMMONS / FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
EXAMPLES - LOCAL
COMMUNITY MANAGED FORESTS
EXAMPLES - LOCAL
COMMUNITY MANAGED WATER SYSTEMS
EXAMPLES - LOCAL
TRANSITION TOWNS
EXAMPLES - REGIONAL
WANA FORUM CHARTER
GREAT LAKES COMMONS TRUSTS
EXAMPLES - REGIONAL
EXAMPLES - REGIONAL
ALASKA PERMANENT FUND
EXAMPLES - GLOBAL
EARTH CLIMATE COMMONS TRUST
(PROPOSED)
EXAMPLES - GLOBAL
GLOBAL FINANCING OF COMMONS RESTORATION
(PROPOSED)
EXAMPLES - GLOCAL
OPEN SOURCE, FREE SOFTWARE, OPEN DESIGN
WE ARE EVERYWHERE
Transnational Tribes
Solidarity Economy Movement
Water Activism
The Landless Workers Movement / via
Campesino
Free Software Creative Commons
Public BankingPirate PartiesOccupy Movement
Transition Towns
Open Access Publishing
Open EducationResources
De-Growth Movement
P2P Design
Maker Movement