Commons UK

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism to grow the commons.
Commons are often associated with natural resources like the oceans and forests — areas that belong to everyone. But commons are not just resources. They are not simply Wikipedia pages or the city grounds used for urban gardening. They comprise of a resource, a community, and a set of social protocols. The three are an integrated, interdependent whole.
"Laying the foundations for the hopeful, creative, just transition that we know is in our hearts". Civic Square mapping eco-possibilities for the West Midlands, Daily Alternative (Dec 03, 2024)
“We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)
Solving the housing crisis via the commons, By Dil Green, resilience.org (Aug 23, 2024)
Stroud Housing Commons: latest developments, lowimpact.org (May 08, 2024)
Networks and support initiatives[edit | edit source]
- Low-Impact Living Initiative, provides information, opinion and advice on 250+ self-provisioning and commons topics. LowimpactTV, on youtube.com. links checked 13:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Mutual Credit Services, Building the Credit Commons
Resources[edit | edit source]
- Use-credit obligations - introduction. Information from Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services and Chris Cook of Island Power on lowimpact.org
- Housing commons - introduction. Information from Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services on lowimpact.org
News and comment[edit | edit source]
2017-2023
The Stroud Commons aims to shift housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care & the means of exchange into community ownership, The Daily Alternative (Jul 08, 2023)
Stroud Commons part 1: We’re putting our house into the ‘commons’. Follow our progress and replicate it in your community, lowimpact.org (Jan 08, 2023)
Reflections on building the ‘Commons’ economy, lowimpact.org (Jul 17, 2022)
- Universal Basic Everything by @TessyBritton...medium.com May 30, 2020.
- Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners! Sep 13, 2019...openDemocracy
- Building a new social commons, May 2, 2017...NEF
See also
- Topic overview: Commons
- Community currencies UK - Food UK - Sharing UK - Towards sustainable economies UK - Community resources UK
External links
- Shared Assets, Land Explorer, a project from Shared Assets, helping you find information on land in the UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages