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What's So Great About Portland?

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The simple but powerful secret of a great city. Read more »

How to Fall in Love With the Place You Live

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The city where you really want to live—that ideal place you wish your own town would become—is not some plan shining on an urban designer’s computer screen. Read more »

How Coworking Fits Into The Future Of Work

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In mid-March, businesspeople, technology experts and academics gathered together for the annual Information Roundtable at the Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society Program. Read more »

I Have Just Two Words for You...The Commons

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Even if you’ve never seen the movie, you know the line from The Graduate when Benjamin, the befuddled recent college grad, is accosted by one of his dad’s friends with this unsolicited career advice: “I want to say one word to you&h. Read more »

10 Hypotheses About Abundance and the Commons

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From Michel Bauwens of the P2P blog: The following is from a really remarkable keynote speech by Roberto Verzola, Abundance and the Generative Logic of the Commons, which was a keynote for the International Conference on the Commons, Berlin, Germany,. Read more »

The New Mutual Credit

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Mutual credit systems are nothing new, in fact some would say they represent the simplest and most democratic form of money. Read more »

Notes from the International Commons Conference

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Where do conservative urbanists, liberal activists, and free culture advocates congregate? Last week it was in Berlin at the first ever International Commons Conference (ICC) held by the Commons Strategies Group and the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Read more »

Wikipedia as a Model for Collaboration

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Wikipedia is many things to different people: an invaluable resource, a crowdsourced marvel, or a mass of unverified suppositions contributed by barbarians at the gate. Read more »

The Most Sustainable College in America?

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Tucked in a mountain valley on the outskirts of Asheville, North Carolina, Warren Wilson College has earned a reputation as a college whose graduates are well-versed in the practical realities of ecological work and life. Read more »

Three Technologies That Pluck Resources from the Air

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Air is the ultimate commons, something that no one can own but that everyone can access. But cruising through new discoveries on ScienceDaily, I discovered that we can get much more from air than just breath. Read more »
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