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Selçuk Balamir had no experience as an architect, contractor, or finance expert, but when he saw a City of Amsterdam tender inviting proposals to build affordable housing apartments, he took the leap.

As the Commonsverse becomes more robust worldwide, a more urgent question is arising: Can commoners work constructively with the state, and if so, how?

Surging real estate markets, among other factors, have made US housing unaffordable to large segments of the population, especially young people.

Our modern mental maps of commons are woefully inadequate, in part because we have forgotten the history of commons and its once-flourishing folk culture.

To outsiders, the Alps may conjure images of majestic mountain landscapes and carefree ski vacations.

With so many social movements seeking system change – cooperatives, commons, Doughnut Economics, peer production, relocalization and more – things quickly get confusing.

One point of using a Creative Commons license is to make a book (and other creative works) as widely available as possible.

Understanding how online communities function is a particularly vexing challenge.

Humanity cannot continue to expand production and consumption exponentially on a finite planet.

The western world has long promoted “development” as a high-minded mission to bring capitalist markets and growth to impoverished areas of the world.

In the late 1970s, well before I became interested in the commons, one of the most formative books that I encountered, at age 23, was Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property.