Organisations As Living Spaces
Currently there is no automatic mechanism within the market to protect and build the commons, nor any institution that exists to do so. The commons can be understood as the…
Currently there is no automatic mechanism within the market to protect and build the commons, nor any institution that exists to do so. The commons can be understood as the…
Ethical solutions and social enterprise are a necessary but insufficient basis for systemic economic change.
Words like ‘systemic,’ are not easily comprehended from within our mechanistic culture. (more…)
A local Commons Equity Society creates a domestic economy in which everyone involved is personally invested – whatever their role. Sharing surplus profit in the right way creates transformative virtuous…
THE PROBLEM WE ARE ADDRESSING An economic system that has been described as "unstable, unsustainable, unfair and unhappy" (i) OUR PROJECT The Commons Equity Society is a new model of…
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…
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 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…
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…)
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?…