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  • Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition

    A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

    by David Bollier ...
    Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.This completely revised and updated edition of Think Like a Commoner offers a succinct yet thorough account of the history and future of the commons.Working outside of both market capitalism and state power, commoners are deeply committed to developing local, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brand Name Bullies

    The Quest to Own and Control Culture

    by David Bollier ...
    An impassioned, darkly amusing look at how corporations misuse copyright law to stifle creativity and free speechIf you want to make fun of Mickey or Barbie on your Web site, you may be hearing from some corporate lawyers. You should also think twice about calling something "fair and balanced" or publicly using Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It may be illegal. Or it may be ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Common Wealth

    The Hidden Economy That Makes Everythig Else Work

    by Jonathan Rowe, David Bollier ...
    A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. This is "the commons," a term that denotes everything we share. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of species, wilderness, and watersheds. Others are the product of human creativity and endeavor: sidewalks and public spaces, the Internet, our languages, cultures, and technologies. Jonathan ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patterns of Commoning

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond

    The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society

    by David Bollier, John H. Clippinger ...
    What can we learn from Bitcoin and Burning Man about re-inventing money and designing better forms of self-governance?  Why are “decentralized autonomous organizations” the next great Internet disruption? From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond:  The Quest for Autonomy and Identity in a Digital Society explores a new generation of digital technologies that are re-imagining the very foundations of ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Free, Fair, and Alive

    The Insurgent Power of the Commons

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to 'commoning' to emancipate themselves from a predatory market-state system.Free, Fair, and Alive presents a foundational re-thinking of the commons — ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Great Regeneration

    Ecological Agriculture, Open-Source Technology, and a Radical Vision of Hope

    by Dorn Cox ...
    In the age of climate change, food scarcity, and increasing industrialization, can a few visionary farmers find global solutions through technology and create networked, open-source regenerative agriculture at a truly transformative scale?In The Great Regeneration, farmer-technologist Dorn Cox and author-activist Courtney White explore unique, groundbreaking research aimed at reclaiming the space ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • We Built a Village

    Cohousing and the Commons

    by Diane Rothbard Margolis ...
    Describes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding of its commons.Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark. We Built a Village describes the process of planning and building of an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the way the people ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Silent Theft

    The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth

    by David Bollier ...
    'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas c ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Think Like a Commoner

    A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

    by David Bollier ...
    Narrated by David Skulski ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State.The beauty of commons is that we can build them ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus