Growing the Commons
Growing the Commons, Katja Durrani, Ronan Murphy, Dil Green, Dave Darby, Michel Rauchs, Otto, Amrit Sachar, Julian JonesGrowing the Commons is a collaborative blog sharing stories, practices, and tools to help build a world of thriving commons.
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The Emergency: why communities must govern environmental resources
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There are many global emergencies. But Julian Jones of Water21 believes they all share a single neglected cause— and that the beginnings of solutions can be found close to home.
Climate, public hea...
Why I choose to build commons, rather than being an ‘activist’
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This text started out as a thread on X, after which its author Dil Green padded it out to serve as a response to Ann Pettifor’s Substack post ‘It is Time to Storm the Gates of Private Power’. We believe that i...
Growing the Commons turns 1 – and an invitation to contribute
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At its heart, Growing the Commons exists to promote, support, and strengthen the Commons: a diverse ecosystem of community-driven systems, tools, and practices for producing, governing, and sustaining l...
The marriage of developers and local communities
This is a guest post by Matthew Slater, sharing valuable lessons from his personal experience as a developer working with, and for, communities. It was originally published on the author’s personal blog on 17th August 2026, and has been lig...
Shrinking Giants, Part 4. Guns or butter: post-growth security in a world of great powers
This is the fourth article in an 8-part series based on an essay by Ronan Murphy. The global economy runs on a simple logic. States must grow or be outcompeted, and those that fall behind lose their security. In a system where power still f...
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Growing Commons is a collaborative blog sharing stories, practices, and tools to help build a world of thriving commons.
Socio-ecological transformation. Ecological Economics generally, alternative financial systems and the changing nature of power in a warming world specifically.
Founder member of Growing the Commons (https://growingthecommons.org/) and Stroud Commons (https://stroudcommons.org).
Hi, I'm a researcher focused on alternative currency and credit systems that serve real communities.
Otto Hague is a PhD researcher in ecology and sustainable agriculture. They connect their studies with political theory and philosophy, and frequently get their hands dirty (literally) participating in agriculture.
Not for profit engineer
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