Register Here! Conversation In this lunar cycle of EcoGatherings, we will discuss the ways that Commons are misunderstood, and the role that a more nuanced understanding of their past, present, and future might serve us in a just transition from this world into the next. To begin the cycle, we will conversationally unpack our own […]
Register Here! Conversation Enclosure is seen by many as the beginning of capitalism as a dominant economic system. It is an ongoing process of claiming once commonly managed resources (both physical and abstract) as private property that can only be accessed through a financial transaction, while facilitating the forgetting of the skills and culture needed […]
Register Here! Focus David Bollier said “There is no commons without commoning.” The commons is more than just a collectively managed resource. It is a nuanced, adaptive, participatory culture that requires community, history, connection, communication, and reciprocity. We may have forgotten the skills and knowledge that make commoning a part of life, but it is […]
Register Here! Generative In this final generative EcoGathering of the lunar cycle on Commoning, we will unveil the beginnings of EcoGather’s digital learning commons to receive feedback and proactive input from our community of learners on how best to develop and manage the space to be most useful and enlivening to its users. We will […]
