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Todd Suomela

Upsetting the oil drum | The Agonist - 0 views

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    it means not only a radically different structure of the economy, but a change in who runs American industry. And this is what the current political order is fighting to the death.
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    More political than commons related, but connected to the question of energy and resource usage and power.
Todd Suomela

The Digital Library of the Commons - Commons in Urban Industrialized Society - 0 views

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    This paper focuses on a quite different situation: the role of common forests in an industrialized country. The Swedish common forests have survived for more than one hundred years; no deforestation has been observed and the total amount of biomass is increasing.
Todd Suomela

The Digital Library of the Commons - 0 views

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    The Political Economy of Institutional Change: A Historical Perspective on Land Tenure in Western Europe
Todd Suomela

The Digital Library of the Commons - 0 views

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    The Silent Revolution: The Emergence of Commons, Guilds and Other Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe from the Late Middle Ages Onwards
Todd Suomela

Common Theft - 0 views

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    a socialist take on enclosure
Todd Suomela

john wilbanks' blog - Nature Network - 0 views

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    Agitating for innovation through open licensing and good technology.
Todd Suomela

On the Erosion of the Public Domain - john wilbanks' blog - john wilbanks' blog on Natu... - 0 views

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    The public domain is not contractually constructed. It just is. It cannot be made more free, only less free. And if we start a culture of licensing and enclosing the public domain (stuff that is actually already free, like the human genome) in the name of "freedom" we're playing a dangerous game.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » How We Bought the Idea of Bottled Water - 0 views

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    pointer to book review at NYT
Fredric Markus

The beauty of locality is in the eye of the beholder. - 11 views

Plunging right in to the relative merits of local production: When the City of Minneapolis was keen to clearcut everything on Nicollet Island at the end of the 1960s, we Islanders were an inventi...

started by Fredric Markus on 24 Jun 08 no follow-up yet
Fredric Markus

Protected classes: sexuality - 9 views

Fredric Markus wrote: > Now we are blessed - and cursed - with great change in these matters. The academic world has come around to an understanding that situational understandings of "normal" are...

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