Commons Magazine

Commons Magazine is your gateway to the latest thinking and action in the commons movement. We pay close attention to how communities around the world are discovering the commons as a way to solve problems and to share what belong to all of us equitably – including future generations. You’ll find profiles of everyday people making a difference, groundbreaking ideas that will prove useful in your own life, as well as current news examined in fresh ways through a commons lens.

April 2013 Edition

A Woman Ahead of Her Time Jane Jacobs was a visionary champion of great cities, who is celebrated each May with Jane's Walks around the world.	The Great American Commons Our National Forests cover 191 million acres in 40 states
Good News for the Common Good 4 recent victories strengthen the commons	Take the Commons Quiz And send it out to all your friends
Commons Has Expanded, Not Shrunk, Over Past 200 Years Public water systems, public education, public libraries and public roads are modern innovations	Yours, Mine & Ours Today's rigid attitudes about property rights break with tradition
The Rise and Fall of Broadcasting as a Commons By U.S. law, the airwaves belong to all of us. But there's no sign of that today

March 2013 Edition

Bring OTC to Your Campus or Community How to raise awareness of the commons in your own backyard	Our Common Wealth: Jonathan Rowe's Collected Writings on the Commons An author/activist showed us the hidden economy that makes everything else work
Our Hidden Wealth How the commons makes everything else work	What You Can Do to Stop "Democracy For Sale" Bill McKibben reports the latest from Washington on the Keystone XL pipeline
To Fix Our Economy, Consult a Book from 1944 Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi anticipated our economic mess	Land Grabs Spread Throughout Developing World Hunger and Human Rights abuses threaten fragile rural communities
"Capital is Enclosure" Sign of the Times in South London	A Brief History of How We Lost the Commons And what we must do to get it back
Reviving the Idea That Urban Land is Common Wealth In the early 20th Century, Progressives saw urban land as common property

February 2013 Edition

How the Commons Can Boost the Prospects of One Town On the Commons visits with leaders in Winona, MN	A Backstage Look at Love Poems OTC and the Joyface Collective send Valentines
The OTC Dictionary of the Commons From Acequia to Wiki, words to share	A Sampling of Commons Action All Over Citizen journalism in Grand Rapids to an economics summit in Berlin to fighting climate change everywhere
Germs We Share Flu season reminds us once again that public health is a commons we all depend on	The End of the Post Office as a Public Institution? The Post Office will close half its processing centers this year and end Saturday delivery
The Palace in New York Owned by Everyone Lessons about the commons at Grand Central Station	A Movement to Protect the Earth Rises in Canada Idle No More: Indigenous people mount a high-profile challenge to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies