OnTheCommons.org — Commons In The News http://www.onthecommons.org/ The commons is a powerful organizing principle for understanding countless aspects of nature, creativity and knowledge, local community and everyday experience. One of the great problems of our time, however, is the enclosure of the commons by market forces, often with the support of government. The majesty of the commons is being neglected. en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:30 PST Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:44:30 PST http://www.onthecommons.org/CommonsInTheNews.xml tbicoordinator@earthlink.net tbicoordinator@earthlink.net The Nobel in economic science awarded to commons researcher Elinor Ostrom . http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2537 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2537 How Market Culture Is Transforming Medical Care http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2477 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2477 Communities Are Buying Their Own Forests http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2460 Jim Carlton of the Wall Street Journal: “Community forests are spreading across the U.S., as more cities and counties seek to rein in development and excessive logging by taking control of the woods themselves….. The trend started in earnest little more than a decade ago, but more than 3,000 cities in 43 states own and manage forests totally 4.5 million acres.”

Towns are discovering that development will threaten as much as 44 million acres of private forests, or 10% of the total, by the year 2030. Key culprits include logging, shopping malls and second home estates. There are special budgetary and management challenges for a town to own a forest, but as Arcata, California – a pioneer in the field – has shown, it is a reasonable and attractive proposition.

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