Green Lecture #6: Commons - For a Just and Sustainable Future: Insights from David Bollier Article Explore the emerging concept of "Commons" for a sustainable future! A retrospective of the Green Lecture #6 in Tunis with David Bollier. By Olfa Chebaane
Tunisia's Ancestral Seeds: An Important Resource for the Future Article In Tunisia, indigenous and peasant seeds are discreetly exchanged between committed farmers and associations. They work together in a spirit of solidarity that is reminiscent of the commons, resisting the pervasive use of hybrid seeds. By Julia Terradot
In Makthar, Kid'Chen project is aiming to ensure the food self-sufficiency of schoolchildren Reportage In Makthar, in the governorate of Siliana, an association has transformed the only middle-school and residential school in the region. From energy autonomy to food self-sufficiency, transmission, and empowerment, a whole system revolving around sharing is being organized. By Zeïneb Ben Ismail
The "Commons", an age-old tradition in Tunisia Article It has always been and always will be!" In many parts of the country, water, land, and other resources are fairly shared between individuals, a far cry from any privatized system. This community-oriented method of pooling and preserving resources has been around for centuries in Tunisia. By Aymen Amayed
What are "Commons"? Article Imagine a village whose inhabitants discover a water spring with drinking water. The villagers decide to share this resource so that everyone in the village can get their drinking water from it - including future generations. This means that the water spring will neither be owned privately, nor managed by the state. By Alice Pesavento
Rethinking Established Thought Categories: The Path to the Commons Article Discover "The insurgent power of the Commons & the crisis of imagination," a captivating episode of the Ecologia podcast in partnership with the Heinrich Boell Foundation Tunis. Explore the potential of the Commons to shape a sustainable future! By Olfa Chebaane
6. How to start thinking and speaking like a commoner In Brief The world of commoning represents a profound challenge to capitalism because it is based on a very different ontology. Many of us have internalized the language of separation and individualism
5. Elinor Ostrom & 8 rules for managing the Commons In Brief A very important figure in debunking the myth of the “tragedy of the commons”, was political scientist and political economist, Elinor Ostrom. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics. She received this prize for her extensive research on patterns of successful commons governance.
4. What are not the Commons? The myth of the tragedy of the Commons In Brief Conventional economists have long seen the commons as an inventory of resources that are free for the taking, or that can potentially be owned and shared by all, such as the oceans, the atmosphere, outer space, the Internet. The focus is on commons as a resource or property, and not on commoning.
3. Commoning - A Triangular Process In Brief A resource does not equal a commons. It is only when a community engages in processes of commoning, that a commons emerges.
