Commons Workshopson behalf of Schumacher North

School of CommoningEducation for Commons Culture & Social Renewal

cic

The Biosphere The Physiosphere The Noosphere

Natural or Inherited

Material Commons or Common Stock

Immaterial or Cultural Commons

COMMONS RESOURCES

COMMON POOL RESOURCES

PUBLIC GOODS

STEWARDED IN A COMMONS

PROVIDED BY PARTNER STATE

COMMONS RESOURCES

Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011

KEY FEATURES

MOVING FROM I TO WE

NETWORKED CIVIL SOCIETY - 21ST CENTURY COMMONING :-)

SOCIAL CHARTERS

CO-PRODUCTION

CO-GOVERNANCE & ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS - TOWARDS THE COMMONS TRUST - CIC’S, CLT’S

Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011

KEY FEATURES

PARTNERSHIP GOVERNMENT

CONSCIOUS MARKETS - CIC’S, CO-OPERATIVES, ETC

COMMONS MONEY

COMMONS PROPERTY

COMMONS TRUSTS Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011

PRINCIPLES

PLURALISM -- A WIDE VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS PARTICIPATE IN HORIZONTAL DECISION-MAKING OF ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEM

SUBSIDIARITY -- CITIZENS TAKE DECISIONS AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL OF AUTHORITY

POLYCENTRISM -- DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT IN THE USE, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF A RESOURCE

CHECKS & BALANCES -- STAKEHOLDERS CREATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR GOVERNANCE, REBALANCING THE MARKET’S DOMINATION OF GOVERNMENT Source: James Quilligan Seminar Autumn 2011

PRINCIPLES

RESOURCE USERS

BECOME THE PRODUCERS

OF THEIR OWN RESOURCES

COMMONS TIMELINE

A Brief History of the Commons

• < 10’000 BC Egalitarian Tribes - The peer 2 peer dynamic where users are the producers of their own resources. Functional Components: Land

• 10’000 BC Agricultural Revolution - 1st Economic Shift: onwards things began to change, then a division of labour and creation of cities in 4’000BC. Functional components: Land & Labour

• 535 Emperor Justinian - res communes those resources that couldn’t be owned by private or public sector.

COMMONS TIMELINE

A Brief History of the Commons

• 1215 - Magna Carta, Charter of the Forest • 1300s - Enclosures began in Europe. • 1500s - 2nd Economic Shift: Science & Industrial Rev. Functional components: Land, Labour & Capital

COMMONS TIMELINE

• 1960s - 3rd Economic Shift: Systems paradigm, electronic rev, instantaneous communication, internet. • 1968 - Garret T Hardin’s 1968 article in Science Magazine. • 1970s - Study of commons, discovered commons are a rich source of community and culture. • 2009 - Elinor Ostrom - Nobel Prize for Economics 2009 - was a huge milestone for the commons movement.

A Brief History of the Commons

THE END OF AN ERA

When we look at the long history of the commons we can see that:

Todays economy is not a recession. It is the end of an era

EXAMPLES - LOCAL

COMMUNITY BILL OF RIGHTS

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)

e.g, Ecuador adding Rights for Nature to its Constitution

e.g., Pittsburgh stripping drilling corporations of corporate constitutional “rights,” such as corporate “personhood”

EXAMPLES - LOCAL

FOOD COMMONS / FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

EXAMPLES - LOCAL

COMMUNITY MANAGED FORESTS

EXAMPLES - LOCAL

COMMUNITY MANAGED WATER SYSTEMS

EXAMPLES - LOCAL

TRANSITION TOWNS

EXAMPLES - REGIONAL

WANA FORUM CHARTER

GREAT LAKES COMMONS TRUSTS

EXAMPLES - REGIONAL

EXAMPLES - REGIONAL

ALASKA PERMANENT FUND

EXAMPLES - GLOBAL

EARTH CLIMATE COMMONS TRUST

(PROPOSED)

EXAMPLES - GLOBAL

GLOBAL FINANCING OF COMMONS RESTORATION

(PROPOSED)

EXAMPLES - GLOCAL

OPEN SOURCE, FREE SOFTWARE, OPEN DESIGN

WE ARE EVERYWHERE

Transnational Tribes

Solidarity Economy Movement

Water Activism

The Landless Workers Movement / via

Campesino

Free Software Creative Commons

Public BankingPirate PartiesOccupy Movement

Transition Towns

Open Access Publishing

Open EducationResources

De-Growth Movement

P2P Design

Maker Movement