Time to go clubbing
The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner …
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Trump risks a ‘gold rush’ on the high seas
The United States has neither moral nor legal right to minerals found in the deep ocean. If it tries to take them, others will too. Guy Standing writes. Among the …
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Fences around the picnic
Our regular columnist, Verity, is attending an international conference, so we are pleased to welcome back Miss Ettie Kett, expert in modern manners, whose new book, ‘Thank You, please’, will …
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Time of your life
Having free time need not require great wealth – Guy Standing’s The Politics of Time explains why work is overvalued. Review by Alex Kozul-Wright. The Politics of Time is not …
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A politics of belonging
Seed-sharing commons help Indian women restore native crops while emancipating themselves from dependency on multinational corporations selling expensive, proprietary GMO seeds. The Commons as a set of responsibilities and entitlements: …
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Plunder of the Commons by Guy Standing
From Publisher: We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost …
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Free, Fair and Alive by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
Free, Fair & Alive is a foundational re-thinking of the commons, the self-organized social systems that human beings have used for millennia to meet their needs. From fisheries and forests to …
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Time to lace up
Heliotropy: “We will grow taller, stronger and faster when motivated by things that are light and full of positivity.” The climate change statistics look grim. Charmian Love and Gillian Benjamin …
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