The commons as an approach offers a way to better organise our lives for the common good and the sustainability of our planet. In this program the history, meaning and practice of the commons is discussed, including a need to look to Aboriginal knowledge to deal with climate change and the current fires in Victoria and Australia.

References:

Bauman,  (1998) Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. UK: Open University Press

Bollier, D. (2014) Think like a Commoner Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers

Bollier, D. & Helfrich, S. (2012) The Wealth of the Commons. Amherst: Levellers Press

Goodall, J.R. (2019) The politics of the common good: Dispossession in Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Ltd.

Raygorodetsky, G. (2017) Archipelago of Hope. New York: Pegasus Books.

Yunkaporta, T. (2019) Sand talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. Melbourne: Text Publ.

Web resources:

International Association for the Study of the Commons: International Journal of the Commons (www.thecommonsjournal.org)

P2P Foundation (Peer to Peer Foundation)

Shareable: people-owered solutions for the common good (www.shareable.net)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75k84AJuL4

https://www.ethosvo.org/the-value-exchange-episode-9-michel-bauwens-we-are-the-gardeners-of-the-planet/

Michel Bauwens on the Commons

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Introduction_to_Commons_Economics