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In order to understand the complex world emerging around us, it is necessary to have a grasp of the ecological concept of "carrying capacity." This post explains this crucial concept without letting the mathematics distract us from the important points.

Title: Access Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-5-25

Introduction

The Access Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as access to infrastructure and services (i.e. politics) shifts from centralized hierarchical institutions to distributed networks of "peer-to-peer" participants.

Title: Energy Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-5-4

Introduction

The Energy Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as energy production shifts from massive technological production infrastructures to smaller scale distributed energy production networks.

Title: Culture Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-4-20

Introduction

The Culture Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as cultural production shifts from large mass-media organizations to networks of small niche-media creators and remixers.

Title: Thing Commons
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-4-20

Introduction

The Thing Commons is one of The Five Commons and emerges as manufacturing shifts from centralized large-scale mass-production infrastructure into decentralized small-scale niche-production sites.

Title: The Five Commons - An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-4-19

Introduction

The Five Commons constitutes an evolving vision of the emerging 21st Century economy. Each of the five commons represents a key area in which transition is apparent.

The Forward Foundation hopes that by sharing this vision, people will find clues and insights into new ways of structuring human activity and sustainable living.

Title: Resource Sharing - Grounding the 21st Century Economy
Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler
Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org
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Ref: FF-2010-2-1

Introduction

Twenty-first century wealth-generating ecologies need to remain robust and flexible in order to allocate resources quickly and efficiently, and to mitigate the effects of constant fluctuations and redistributions. Nobel Prize recipient Elinor Ostrom's work on "commons" provides vital thinking towards a solution: peer governance and information transparency.

This overview attempts to provide the following:

1. a brief summary of the requisite theoretical framework on the production of "commons"
2. an example implementing the theory in a technological deployment

Taken together, it is the authors' hope that this document can be a springboard for interested practitioners in the world.

Conveners: Michel Bauwens, Phoebe Moore, Nathan Cravens
University of Salford, Manchester, UK, P2P Research Group
Conveners: Michel Bauwens, Phoebe Moore, Nathan Cravens

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Nov 3, 2009

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