COMMONS MAGAZINE

Jay Walljasper

Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at On the Commons and editor of OnTheCommons.org, created OTC’s book All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. A speaker, communications strategist and writer and editor, he chronicles stories from around the world that point us toward a more equitable, sustainable and enjoyable future. He is author of The Great Neighborhood Book and a senior associate at the urban affairs consortium Citiscope. Walljasper also writes a column about city life for Shareable.net and is a Senior Fellow at Project for Public Spaces and Augsburg College’s Sabo Center for Citizenship and Learning. For more of his work, see JayWalljasper.com

Stories by Jay Walljasper

Our Common Wealth: Jonathan Rowe's Collected Writings on the Commons

March 23, 2013
An author/activist showed us the hidden economy that makes everything else work

Our Hidden Wealth

March 23, 2013
How the commons makes everything else work

What You Can Do to Stop "Democracy For Sale"

March 23, 2013
Bill McKibben reports the latest from Washington on the Keystone XL pipeline

To Fix Our Economy, Consult a Book from 1944

March 19, 2013
Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi anticipated our economic mess

Land Grabs Spread Throughout Developing World

March 10, 2013
Hunger and Human Rights abuses threaten fragile rural communities

"Capital is Enclosure"

March 9, 2013
Sign of the Times in South London

A Brief History of How We Lost the Commons

March 9, 2013
And what we must do to get it back

Reviving the Idea That Urban Land is Common Wealth

March 9, 2013
In the early 20th Century, Progressives saw urban land as common property

How Commons-based Strategies Can Transform Your Hometown

February 25, 2013
Invite OTC to town to boost public life and community connections

A Backstage Look at Love Poems

February 15, 2013
OTC and the Joyface Collective send Valentines

The OTC Dictionary of the Commons

February 9, 2013
From Acequia to Wiki, words to share

A Sampling of Commons Action All Over

February 9, 2013
Citizen journalism in Grand Rapids to an economics summit in Berlin to fighting climate change everywhere