The Commons

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• Thomas Frank: The Real Chicago Way

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  A privatization scheme thats a loser for taxpayers.... When the entertainers of the right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call "the Chicago way." As imagined by the right, the men in ...
  5 hours ago

• LeAnn Gets In Third Fender-Bender In Five Months!

  
  X17 Online — Authority: 690
  var entry_id = "12777"; var entry_tags = "Calabasas,Commons,driving,fender bender,LeAnn Rimes"; var preview = "lrimes120409.jpg"; var x17video_id = "small.lrimes120409.mp4"; Wow, should she still be driving? LeAnn Rimes got into her third fender-bender in five months outside of the Commons in...
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• Copenhagen or Bust: What Space Junk Teaches Us About Climate Change

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 522
  This week, the international community launched another attempt at world governance around climate change.  But in the lead-up to what has been called our last chance to mitigate the most severe consequences of human-induced climate change, a sputtering world economy, political anxiety, and legislative lethargy may ...
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• Is it time to kill the Antarctic Treaty?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia Fifty years ago, 12 nations—Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union and the U.S.—agreed to cede their claims to Antarctica. The continent would belong to no nation and become a nature preserve and scientific ...
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• CLIMATEGATE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED CAUSE, SO BEWARE

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 125
  I want to go on record here sooner than later about this thing called Climategate. I am on record many times saying that it is not a question of whether or not 9/11 was an inside job but rather only a matter of how deep and wide. This thing called Climategate at best must be approached from the opposite direction. ...
  6 days ago

• Sally Bercow: my binge drinking past full of one-night stands

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Sally Bercow admits to having a string of one-night stands in her twenties and being "a big binge drinker".
  6 days ago

• I’m with Ed Begley

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 438
  Scrappy! And cutting through the neo-conservative crap:
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• The Spirit of Seattle Turns Ten

  
  Provisions Library — Authority: 417
  The Tortoise v. The Scare. A screen shot from a 2007 film depicting the protests, "Battle in Seattle." An editorial in The Nation eloquently considers the recent history of direct action and resistance to the decisions the WTO makes at its meetings. The funny thing about supranational organizations is that they ...
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• Local Motors: a business model of our times

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 536
  Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source , one on open source mobility run from the University of Rotterdam called c,mm,n , and one on a company called Local Motors . I ...
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• A unique opportunity to rebuild Parliament

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Telegraph View: in the aftermath of the MPs expenses crisis, there is a chance to reinvigorate Parliament - lets not waste it.
  2 weeks ago

• The Tradegy of the Commons

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 107
  The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an influential article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. The article describes a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own ...
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• The altruism instinct

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Theres a reason that all social groups should fall apart, which can be illustrated by the following scenario. You are a cattle farmer, sharing open pasture with 100 other farmers, and are trying to decide whether to add another animal to your herd. Like any rational person, you weigh the costs and benefits of this ...
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• All Hail the Unendangered Wild Turkey: A Thanksgiving Reflection

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 475
  Imagine sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner in a world without wild turkeys . It’s hard to conceive —if you live in the United States, chances are you’re just a short distance away from a large population of these birds. They roam forests, wood lots, farm fields and prairies from Maine to Florida , ...
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• Commoditization… and the Tragedy of the Commons….

  
  diversity.net.nz — Authority: 116
  My good friend Ruth has started blogging and, in what can only be likened to a “butterfly from the chrysalis” moment, we get to see the thoughts her previous employment have rendered her unlikely to utter. Her latest post looks broadly at the Emissions Trading Scheme and questions the strategy of levying a ...
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• The Victory of the Commons

  
  New Paradigm Digest — Authority: 133
  New Economy |   The Commons Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom proved that people can—and do—work together to manage commonly-held resources without degrading them. The biggest roadblock standing in the way of many people’s recognition of the importance of the commons came tumbling down when ...
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• Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons

  
  Provisions Library — Authority: 417
  Click here to view the embedded video. Elinor Ostrom recently won the economics Nobel.  Here she explains her thinking about governance of the commons.
  3 weeks ago

• Elinor Ostrom has transformed economics by showing communal ownership works in capitalism too

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 486
  Elinor Ostrom Derek Wall on Strom winning the Nobel prize in Economics for refuting the “tragedy of the commons.” Ostrom’s work is important to socialists because it shows that it is possible to run economic systems without private property or state control. Marx famously argued that socialism would lead ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Flickr and Library of Congress Experiment

  
  iPentimento|Genealogy and History — Authority: 121
  Genealogical research has taken some tough blows in the last few years, with the National Archives raising their fees to obtain records that rightfully belong to all of us, to county courthouses completely refusing to allow access to their records at all. So, it was a nice surprise to read today on Flickr that ...
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• A rigorous first step to a cleaner Parliament

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Telegraph View: the committee on standards in public lifes 60 detailed recommendations to control MPs expenses can only be the start of Westminsters cleanup operation.
  5 weeks ago

• Tragedy of the Commons?

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 128
  French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality – NYTimes.com . Paris’ chiq Vélibs are taking a hammering. Matthew Kahn ( whose blog I got the story from ) calls it another example of the Tragedy of the Commons. “We found many stolen Vélib’s in Paris’s troubled neighborhoods,” said Marie Lajus, a ...
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