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…
What is systemic change?
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…)
How A Commons Society Builds A Resilient Town
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…
Building the Wellbeing Economy Through A New Economic Model
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…
This is the problem we can solve – Oxfam report on richest 1%
BBC News: Oxfam says wealth of richest 1% equal to other 99%
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…