About

Growing the Commons (GtC) is a collaboration of individuals from organisations that are developing tools, ideas and practices to grow the commons movement.

By commons we mean community ownership and control of essential infrastructure (housing, land, energy, water, care, governance), in perpetuity. This includes the resources themselves, local people (commoners) who use them, and a set of rules (written by the commoners) about how the resources are used, so that they’re not depleted, sold or destroyed.

GtC is a ‘knowledge commons’ – a global resource, owned and governed by practitioners, comprising:

1. a knowledge base, with a huge bank of commons and commons-related topics. We need these skills to provide for our communities and to build commons and small businesses. Topics are looked after by specialist curators, who will add new topics, so the knowledge is maintained as a genuine commons. Browse, or use the search facility for a specific topic.
2. a blog, with news, projects and opinions. Please subscribe.
3. a forum for comments, discussion and queries. Please register and say hello.
    
   

• Sue Bell of the Credit Commons Society.
• Dave Darby of Lowimpact.org and Stroud Commons.
• Katja Durrani of Bristol Commons.
• Simon Grant of the P2P Foundation.
• Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services and Local Loop Merseyside (LLM).
• Michel Rauchs of Commons Lab and the Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University.
• Amrit Sachar of the Festival of Commoning.
• Chikara Shimasaki of Stroud Commons and Commons Lab.
• Matthew Slater of the Credit Commons Protocol and Community Forge.
• Nick Weir of the Open Food Network.
• Tom Woodroof of Mutual Credit Services and Local Loop Merseyside (LLM).
   
  

• Substack editorial team: Dave Darby, Katja Durrani, Otto Hague, Michel Rauchs
• Knowledge base (wiki): Dave Darby, Katja Durrani, Simon Grant, Dil Green, Otto Hague
   
  

Contact us if you’d like to contribute.