---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgit Daiber <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:39 PM Subject: [CommonGood] FYI: Finding Common Ground To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Dear Friends and Colleagues, The European Greens dedicated a complete issue of their Journal to the Commons Debate. Please find it below. Yours, Birgit *[email protected] <[email protected]>* *www.birgitdaiber.eu <http://www.birgitdaiber.eu>* *Mobile: 0039-366-4207762 <+39%20366%20420%207762>* *Casella Postale No. 28, I-98055 Lipari* ------------------------------ *From:* Green European Journal <[email protected]> on behalf of Green European Journal <[email protected]> *Sent:* Thursday, December 8, 2016 11:23 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* New Edition: Finding Common Ground Web version <http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d6346c2bcd&e=a0d4052426> [image: Green European Journal] GREEN EUROPEAN JOURNAL Volume 14 FOLLOW US [image: Green European Journal - Facebook] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=eb2049acb4&e=a0d4052426> [image: Green European Journal - Twitter] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b0a7243004&e=a0d4052426> NEW EDITION Gej volume 14 Finding Common Ground An investigation into the commons reveals the wide-ranging spectrum of definitions and applications of this concept that exist across Europe. Yet from the numerous local initiatives, social movements and governance models associated with this term – is it possible to identify the outline of a commons-based approach that could form the basis of a broad cross-societal response to the failures of the current system? [image: Green European Journal - Download PDF] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=40fc3e5a8a&e=a0d4052426> [image: Green European Journal] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=54d8876723&e=a0d4052426> [image: The Commons: A Quiet Revolution] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=78c68691b0&e=a0d4052426> The Commons: A Quiet Revolution <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=474d2f279d&e=a0d4052426> Green Transition <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=1a63d261d2&e=a0d4052426> BY Editorial Board <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=fbb4a3449d&e=a0d4052426> Editorial - A striking brand of political momentum is building, driven by the resurgence of citizen-led initiatives around the commons [image: The Commons: A Quiet Revolution] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=0e1577427c&e=a0d4052426> [image: The Time Is Now! Commons From Past to Present: An Interview with Tine De Moor] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=2a06f22971&e=a0d4052426> The Time Is Now! Commons From Past to Present: An Interview with Tine De Moor <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=a6d0fa6760&e=a0d4052426> Green Transition <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=fe5dc1bd6f&e=a0d4052426> BY Tine De Moor <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c3f6e86742&e=a0d4052426> Tine De Moor takes us through the historical context of the commons. [image: Ha llegado el momento: pasado y presente de los bienes comunales] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5e15b2f7d0&e=a0d4052426> [image: Nadszedł czas. Dobra wspólne wczoraj i dziś] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b6bfc6c4ed&e=a0d4052426> [image: The Time Is Now! Commons From Past to Present: An Interview with Tine De Moor] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=0f85774cbd&e=a0d4052426> [image: Le moment est venu : les biens communs du passé au présent] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=6802d0ed8b&e=a0d4052426> [image: Institutional Diversity for Resilient Societies] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c32bfd5c82&e=a0d4052426> Institutional Diversity for Resilient Societies <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=7ebfdaf812&e=a0d4052426> Democracy <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=ff003a8597&e=a0d4052426> BY Dirk Holemans <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d81466af9d&e=a0d4052426> A third option to management by the state or the market is explored: management by autonomous citizens. [image: Institucionalna raznolikost za otporna društva] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=1ec0344fb8&e=a0d4052426> [image: Institutionele diversiteit voor veerkrachtige samenlevingen] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=f18aa52642&e=a0d4052426> [image: Institutional Diversity for Resilient Societies] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b9d8984599&e=a0d4052426> [image: Diversité institutionnelle pour des sociétés résilientes] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=856c8b7cdc&e=a0d4052426> [image: Rethinking the City through the Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=a4266d3dc6&e=a0d4052426> Rethinking the City through the Commons <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=97758c7aa9&e=a0d4052426> Green Transition <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b67c5bebb6&e=a0d4052426> BY Eric Piolle <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b865bd2afe&e=a0d4052426>, Rosalie Salaün <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c6a87b8816&e=a0d4052426> Green Mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle on involving citizens in how their city is governed. [image: Cómo Cambiar la Perspectiva sobre los Bienes Comunales a Través de la Participación Ciudana] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=ef1b7ff484&e=a0d4052426> [image: Zmieniające się spojrzenie na dobro wspólne i partycypację obywatelską] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d4b5c20828&e=a0d4052426> [image: Rethinking the City through the Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=7fa26794d3&e=a0d4052426> [image: Changer de Point de Vue sur les Vommuns par la Participation Citoyenne] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=ddefed7652&e=a0d4052426> [image: TINA, Go Home ! The Commons Are Here] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=bd96349865&e=a0d4052426> TINA, Go Home ! The Commons Are Here <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=fbe2b5a47a&e=a0d4052426> Politics <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=bd8e10e926&e=a0d4052426> BY Vedran Horvat <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=893a0560ce&e=a0d4052426> The commons can be a useful tool against the fierce neoliberal push taking place in South Eastern Europe. [image: TINA, hajde kući! Stigla su zajednička dobra] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=f9dccec939&e=a0d4052426> [image: TINA, Go Home ! The Commons Are Here] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=73ad44bd39&e=a0d4052426> [image: Constructive Confrontation or constructive Tension – the State and the Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=df67652d60&e=a0d4052426> Constructive Confrontation or constructive Tension – the State and the Commons <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5204ff9437&e=a0d4052426> Politics <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=a6201e4a77&e=a0d4052426> BY Danijela Dolenec <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=6a20850193&e=a0d4052426>, Hilary Wainwright <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=17a0986290&e=a0d4052426>, John Clarke <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=6976ef4e15&e=a0d4052426>, Michel Bauwens <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=4024288655&e=a0d4052426>, Tomislav Tomašević <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=8a2ec17131&e=a0d4052426>, Vedran Horvat <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=bcd1e49a28&e=a0d4052426> A panel of five experts discuss the ambivalent relationship between the state and the commons. [image: Confrontación Constructiva o Tensión constructiva: el Estado y los Bienes Comunales] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=3736f1391c&e=a0d4052426> [image: Constructive Confrontation or constructive Tension – the State and the Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=71fcee4c65&e=a0d4052426> [image: Confrontation Constructive ou Tension Constructive – l’État et les Communs] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5cd5d9b174&e=a0d4052426> [image: Urban Commons’ Critique of Ownership Institutions: An Insurrection on the Way?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=e4bd54bbff&e=a0d4052426> Urban Commons’ Critique of Ownership Institutions: An Insurrection on the Way? <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=f00e9c33eb&e=a0d4052426> Politics <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c4a13912cc&e=a0d4052426> BY Daniela Festa <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=642a615133&e=a0d4052426> Social geographer Daniela Festa explores the commons within the context of neoliberal expansion in Italy. [image: Krytyka instytucji zarządzających miejskimi dobrami wspólnymi – w drodze do rebelii?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=af6bcaa8df&e=a0d4052426> [image: De commons in de stad – Een kritiek op eigendomsstructuren: Daagt er oproer?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=63c2bb6ba7&e=a0d4052426> [image: Krytyka instytucji zarządzających miejskimi dobrami wspólnymi – w drodze do rebelii?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=363a4ab4a3&e=a0d4052426> [image: Urban Commons’ Critique of Ownership Institutions: An Insurrection on the Way?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=b1fbf023ad&e=a0d4052426> [image: La critique des communs urbains aux institutions de la propriété : l’insurrection qui vient ?] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=fbc3381a3c&e=a0d4052426> [image: Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c882130c90&e=a0d4052426> Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=cea95bee27&e=a0d4052426> Society, Media and Culture <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=673a75e204&e=a0d4052426> BY Julia Reda <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5094143e56&e=a0d4052426> MEP & digital commons expert Julia Reda addresses the pertinent question of who owns what is online. [image: De digitale commons: ons aller recht op kennis en cultuur Een interview met Julia Reda] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d5848f5afc&e=a0d4052426> [image: Cyfrowe dobra wspólne: nasze wspólne prawo do wiedzy i kultury] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=cebee27370&e=a0d4052426> [image: Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=e157153427&e=a0d4052426> [image: How the Commons can Revitalise Europe] <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=2095d71a01&e=a0d4052426> How the Commons can Revitalise Europe <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5970eb98d2&e=a0d4052426> Future of EU <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=6ab2fa8245&e=a0d4052426> BY David Hammerstein <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=43f667d57d&e=a0d4052426>, Sophie Bloemen <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=90b7ee99d9&e=a0d4052426> How can the EU support the establishment of commons, which could in turn sustain the European project? [image: How the Commons can Revitalise Europe] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=6f4a3cb286&e=a0d4052426> [image: Taking Back Ownership – Transforming Capital into Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=577c1f350a&e=a0d4052426> Taking Back Ownership – Transforming Capital into Commons <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=44885bc81c&e=a0d4052426> Finance and Economy <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=20ae43c8ee&e=a0d4052426> BY Molly Scott Cato <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=f3a3649c89&e=a0d4052426>, Ugo Mattei <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=4daf3f45bd&e=a0d4052426> What are the different ways resources can be managed and what different outcomes does it lead to? [image: Ponovno preuzimanje vlasništva – Preobražaj kapitala u zajednička dobra] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=0e1bcec86c&e=a0d4052426> [image: Taking Back Ownership – Transforming Capital into Commons] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=095d8a9e4f&e=a0d4052426> [image: CRY ME A RIVER: Poland’s Threatened Waterways] <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=636fe18a01&e=a0d4052426> CRY ME A RIVER: Poland’s Threatened Waterways <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=e4cf10d62f&e=a0d4052426> Environment <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=9f248fcb42&e=a0d4052426> BY Ewa Sufin-Jacquemart <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=a961ab208b&e=a0d4052426>, Radosław Gawlik <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=20dd6b0c62&e=a0d4052426> The Polish government's plans for Poland's rivers would be disastrous - instead, control should be handed to communities. [image: ZAPŁACZ NAD RZEKĄ – Polskie rzeki – zagrożone dobro wspólne] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5bb83d9fac&e=a0d4052426> [image: CRY ME A RIVER: Poland’s Threatened Waterways] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=3cf8ef9a8e&e=a0d4052426> [image: Sowing the seeds of Resistance] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=c32355037d&e=a0d4052426> Sowing the seeds of Resistance <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=9b28b9ae0d&e=a0d4052426> Agriculture <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=8fdfa5a763&e=a0d4052426> BY Benjamin Joyeux <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=009f63cc9d&e=a0d4052426>, Vandana Shiva <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=24ad30f4f8&e=a0d4052426> Benjamin Joyeux interviews Indian activist Vandana Shiva about biodiversity, seed patents, and the commons. [image: Sowing the seeds of Resistance] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=226306b768&e=a0d4052426> [image: Semer les graines de la résistance] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=a7cf8a20ad&e=a0d4052426> [image: Nassonia Forest: Into the Common Wild] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=002a157b36&e=a0d4052426> Nassonia Forest: Into the Common Wild <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=74c72075fb&e=a0d4052426> Environment <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d08a329ac3&e=a0d4052426> BY Jonathan Piron <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=5f866cfada&e=a0d4052426> The Nassonia project in Belgium could be a leading light in common ownership and governance - with a few changes. [image: Nassonia Forest: Into the Common Wild] <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=fb897038ca&e=a0d4052426> [image: Nassonia : une forêt en comun] <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=96f00e29cf&e=a0d4052426> [image: Cosmic Bonanza – Mining in Outer Space] <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=d03596e6d2&e=a0d4052426> Cosmic Bonanza – Mining in Outer Space <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=0586df8b2d&e=a0d4052426> Geopolitics <http://gef.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=4ff1e39fd6&e=a0d4052426> BY Liesbeth Beneder <http://gef.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=44a5106857&e=a0d4052426>, Richard Wouters <http://gef.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fbf70df867e35f9b496f3833d&id=9ec7eb174f&e=a0d4052426> Companies are starting to eye outer space for mining opportunities, sparking geopolitical conflicts on earth. 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