WHAT IS THE COMMONS?

David Bollier, iRights, USA
2013, 23 min 37 sec

David Bollier is an activist, writer and policy strategist who studies the commons and tries to protect it (‘the word commons’ is singular and plural). According to Boillier the commons are shared resources that a given community wants to manage for the collective benefit of everyone. Concepts like fairness and sustainability are not abstract goals in themselves, but necessary tools in both resource management, community building and the sustenance of the social fabric.