Commoning as a Constructive Disruption of the Climate Impasse

David Bollier will explain how commoning provides a powerful, insurgent paradigm for addressing climate change while nourishing hardy non-capitalist modes of production and governance. Around the world, commons function as effective social systems for stewarding shared wealth, ranging from land, water, and forests to farms and fisheries, digital code and infrastructure, alternative currencies, finance, and much else. By providing a coherent framework for building a regenerative economy, the commons paradigm challenges market/state definitions of feasible progress by showcasing already-working solutions that are decentralized, feasible, fair, and democratic