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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 December 25, 2020

Read up on our research with Shared Digital Europe: we just launched a new vision on interoperability as a generati… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork December 24, 2020

In Cape Town, the urban commons inspired a new deal between bureaucrats and citizens: public participation should b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork December 23, 2020

What will be the future of social security? What can we learn from the commons? We asked our friends David Bollier… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork December 22, 2020

We're proud to publish a report from Rojava, by @RojavaIC, about the communal and feminist economy that we should a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@commonsnetwork December 21, 2020

'Why we need a People's Vaccine right now': commonsnetwork.org/news/why-we-ne… https://t.co/1N3wdOTc9D

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