Environmental Commons works to engage and educate the public on important environmental issues and decisions by providing scientific information, policy analysis, and instructive materials necessary for effective change. We support democratic involvement and decision-making in the conservation and recovery of biological and natural resources. We believe that by advancing community involvement, we can collectively effect change for a healthier environment.



Economically driven developments for short-term gain have led to an increasing decline of species diversity, genetic variability, and access to clean water. Increasing private control of the world's rich plant and animal diversity and its rivers and aquifers interferes with a public vision of maintaining and protecting dynamic resources long seen as our common heritage.



We promote the protection of a rich biodiversity and genetic variability to better support ecological and human health