COMMONS MAGAZINE
Community Life Locally-based commons build the “social wealth” of our communities. It is therefore important to create and maintain an independent business sector, inviting public spaces, local agricultural initiatives, and other vital community systems.
While Red State public universities are fielding topnotch basketball teams, state politicians are slashing university budgets. (By Brad J. Ward under a Creative Commons license)
Public universities in Red States field top notch basketball teams, but state politicians in many of these states are slashing the universities' budgets. (By Brad J. Ward under a Creative Commons license.)
Heritage Park YMCA in Minneapolis caters to seniors. (By Twin Cities LISC under a Creative Commons license.)
(By Jimmy Emerson under a Creative Commons license.)
The world's largest road runner welcomes you to Fort Stockton, Texas, a town of 8500 that has banned plastic bags. Many Texas Republicans want the state to overturn this local law. (By Dustin & Lori Slater under a Creative Commons license.)
(Screenshot from a video by Allison Herrera for the Kulture Klub Collaborative)
To love winter, simply find your inner child. (Photo by Tim Pierce under a Creative Commons license)
A light rail station in Santa Clara, California. (By Richard Masoner under a CC license)
New York's High Line is a popular poster child for Creative Placemaking. (By David Berkowitz under a CC license)
How bike sharing benefits even people who already own bikes
A new voter's guide lays out the arguments of both sides in Maine, Washington, Minnesota and Maryland
Digital media are overwhelming our consciousness and eclipsing our capacity for reflection.
