What is the most outrageous thought that you could have today?
What if every year your community won the lottery and there was a big new pot of money to spend on people, buildings, land and nature – in fact on…
10 Reasons to Leave Your Company to Your Workers When You Retire
It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity: Selling to employees can yield a better price, preserve a legacy, keep jobs and profits local—and maybe even eradicate inequality. Thus is one way that a…
Imagine
Imagine if you were part of a community that had almost unlimited resources to invest in community assets, people and nature Imagine new kinds of businesses and ‘banks’ being the…
Distributing power – the underlying conceptual insight for the Commons Corporation
The hypothesis driving our project is that if power is truly shared then the natural capacity of people to collaborate can be relied on to ensure success. Power attracts fear…
Article Published about the Elysia Commons in Italy
Aurelio Riccioli of Istituto per la Tripartizioni, an Italian blog that represents the idea of managing the social commonwealth along the 3-fold lines of culture, economy and justice, came across…
Inter-sector Connections
We are publishing a series of blog posts that dip into a future in which the Commons Corporation has become part of life so that we can share how it…
Regenerative Ownership – A New Solution For The New Economy
Regenerative ownership re-balances the benefits of ownership between you, me and us in an equitable way by replenishing human and natural capital and reconnecting wealth creation with the common good.
Rather than focusing on individual companies or the ethical largesse of individuals for a solution to the systemic financial and economic issues we face, this new architecture focuses on building a parallel and expanding economic system as a sub-zone within the market. (more…)
Elysia Commons at Marmalade
A Journey to The Elysia Commons
In April 2015 the Ellysia Commons team presented the model as one of several events at the Marmalade Social Enterprise Festival in Oxford. Our invitation to participants was to visit a business model from the future that we can help to build now.
What If?
What if we were able to transform the landscape of capitalism without undermining enterprise and private ownership? What if we were able to mutualize the market rather than individual companies?…
Internet Radio Broadcast
We're happy to share that an interview with Sebastian Parsons, founder and designer of the Elysia Commons, Thursday the 8th April 2015 broadcast an interview on Lighthouse NetCast a new…