STWR - Share The World's Resources

The On the Commons team is developing a co-creative process that will allow the Great Lakes and its tributary waters in North America to be declared as a lived commons - to be shared, protected, carefully managed and enjoyed by all who live around them. By On the Commons.

A recently published book provides a new monetary and economic model according to the role model of nature. Nature is the inspiration for a common-good-currency called “Gradido” that is not to be created by debt, but by contributing to the common good. By Bernd Hückstädt.

Living simply in a consumer society isn't easy, hence a new book brings many learning tools together in one place so that educators who want to share the rewards and potentials of simple living with others may have some grist for their own creative mills. By Mark A. Burch.

A coalition of organisations and prominent thinkers put forward a bold vision and implementing strategy for a New Economy that works for all of Earth’s people and the living systems on which their well-being depends. By The New Economy Working Group (NEWGroup).

The Global Transition 2012 is an international network of organisations from the Global North and South that aims to catalyse a ‘Global Transition’ to the desirable and beneficial economy that we aspire to. As part of the first phase of their work, leading thinkers authored 11 Challenge Papers on key topic areas.

The commons can act as a central concept that could potentially change our social and political makeup while pushing us to develop new modes of global governance. This concept could enable us to open the pathway through which we will progress in making these ideas reality. A report by the Forum for a New World Governance.