“Common sense” is a term Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin repeatedly uses with ever increasing enthusiasm to describe the Hillside Farmers Cooperative he is creating with Latino farmers in southern Minnesota. Sometimes he pronounces it, “commons sense.”
For Darryl Birkenfeld, a long-time resident of Nazareth, Texas, the commons is not just a call to develop better economic models or protections for nature.
Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access. That's the view of Enrique Peñalosa, who is not, as you might expect, a starry-eyed idealist or philosopher given to abstract theorizing.
Commons are about people and their relationship to a resource, believes Rowe, the first director of the Tomales Bay Institute, since renamed On the Commons.
