The Commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good
Public goods include fresh air, knowledge, public infrastructure, national security, education, common language(s), widespread and high public literacy levels, potable water, flood control systems, lighthouses, and street lighting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good_(economics)
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"Tragedy of the Commons" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
- "Tyranny of Small Decisions" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_small_decisions
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For commoners, alternative thinkers, tinkerers, future thinking creatives, radical activists, nowtopians, permaculturists
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Via Yes! Magazine / 2001 Reclaiming the Commons
Via Sojourners / 2013 Reclaiming the Commons
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Via Community-Wealth - Democracy Collaborative / http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/commons/index.html
- Anchor Institutions
- The Cleveland Model
- Community Development Corporations (CDCs)
- Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)
- Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
- Cooperatives (Co-ops)
- Cross-Sectoral
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Green Economy
- Individual Wealth Building
- Individual Wealth Preservation
- Local Food Systems
- Municipal Enterprise
- New State & Local Policies
- Outside the U.S.
- Program Related Investments
- Reclaiming the Commons
- Social Enterprise
- Socially Responsible Investing
- State Asset Building Initiatives
- State and Local Investments
- Transit Oriented Development
- University & Community Partnerships
- Worker Cooperatives