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#ECAmadrid: Introducing The Commoners

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On the eve of the European Commons Assembly held in Madrid this week, we asked the participants to introduce themselves and their projects. Click on the titles below to jump to the different sections and join us at the assembly,…

Posted in Climate, Data, democracy, Energy, Europe, knowledge commons, Urban Commons

For Peace, People and Planet.

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July 2017. For Peace, People and Planet: A civil Society Perspective on the next EU Research Framework Programme (FP9). Ensuring investments address pressing social & environmental challenges. The research that is prioritised and funded today will have a decisive impact on…

Posted in democracy, Energy, Europe, Health, IP, knowledge commons, Medicine

Energy as a common good

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February 22- 2017 Locally designed and owned energy systems can provide several comparative advantages in Europe and beyond: it favors the access to energy for all (“the right to energy”) and inclusiveness, it fosters energy efficiency and saving (by not…

Tagged with: Energy Commons, European Commons Assembly
Posted in Climate, Energy, Europe

Commons Network at energy conference “Future without the NAM”

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Our Energy fellow Cecile Blanchet participated on Saturday 7 January to “a future without the NAM“in the Netherlands. The focus was on the potential remunicipalization of the gas utility (the NAM), which is exploiting the huge gas field under the province of…

Tagged with: Energy, Groningen, Municipal Utilities
Posted in Climate, Energy, Europe

@commonsnetwork July 28, 2020

Food cooperatives: 'Nobody is in charge, but everything gets done' commonsnetwork.org/news/food-coop… https://t.co/uqacsqXD6t
@commonsnetwork July 27, 2020

Caring Co-ops go where professional healthcare can't: commons and care against loneliness commonsnetwork.org/news/caring-co… https://t.co/x12msQvp4c
@commonsnetwork July 26, 2020

Rethinking Dutch social security: what can the commons teach us about organised solidarity? Here's the latest updat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork July 25, 2020

We recently organised a webinar about the Dutch #Omgevingswet, and here's the footage. To be continued :)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork July 24, 2020

Social profit through human connection: cooperative farming can make a farmer out of all of us. Read our report her… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

“It is he who erects fences around his property who destroys civilization; the natural civilization of Man”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau