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COMMONS MAGAZINE

Food and Agriculture

As the actual environmental and economic costs of the industrial agricultural system become more evident, we are seeing many new campaigns to regain control over what we eat—food safety initiatives, local food movements, fights against genetically modified food and destructive trade policies, and the Slow Food movement.

A thriving shopping street lined with local businesses

February 15, 2019

State of the Commons 2041

A look back at a political, cultural & economic revolution that saved the world

A thriving shopping street lined with local businesses

February 15, 2019

State of the Commons 2041

A look back at a political, cultural & economic revolution that saved the world

(By Dale Calder under a Creative Commons license.)

October 1, 2014

Linux for Lettuce

Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time
April 13, 2014

Why Do I Work So Hard?

Two starkly different visions of life's meaning from a pair of car ads
View from Africa on Ostrom's Nobel Prize
December 16, 2013

The View from Africa on Elinor Ostrom

Her research validates the value of traditional cooperative land management
October 20, 2013

How One Farmer Protects His Land from Fracking

Stephen Cleghorn enacts a Rights of Nature easement on his Pennsylvania farm
June 9, 2013

Foodopoly

Our dysfunctional, corporate dominated food system threatens our health and the planet
April 30, 2013

The Real Tragedy

Ecological ruin stems from what happens to--not what is caused by--the commons