From the DLC Website, "The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-...

ABOUT USdefining the promise of emergent communities ...a condition having the attributes of a mature ecosystem: stable, diverse, in symbiotic balance again... a community of beings j...

"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time." Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage poin...

Cities Alliance: Cities Without Slums is a global coalition of cities and their development partners committed to scaling up successful approaches to poverty reduction.   ...

Homelessness in the USA: data as August begins: first of an ongoing series dedicated to assembling a team of volunteer 'stringers' to report in on conditions on the ground, take photos, do intervie...

EarthCAT: A New Approach to Community DevelopmentThe Earth Charter Community Action Tool is your guide to developing and implementing a community sustainability plan. Using EarthCAT, you will be ab...

The first attempt at proposing "green constitutional engineering" as a route towards sustainability. The argument of the bioregional state is that sustainability is unachivable without formal democ...

What is a Freegan? Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embr...

Using empirical evidence from the coastal district of Kenya, an area with a long history of private land owner-ship, this report challenges the key assumptions of the proponents of land individuali...