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We’re putting our house into the ‘commons’ – Follow our progress
Housing is the ‘rock’ on which the commons economy can be built. Everybody needs it, it’s non-technical and it’s in a mess. Last year, my wife and I were selling a house in London and moving to Stroud. We were hearing stories from people in their 30s that we knew in London about the impossibility…
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Why we need the commons
My wife and I recently got chatting to a group of three 19-year olds in the garden of the Golden Fleece. After the initial pleasantries, things got deep quite quickly. One of them said that they’d decided not to have children, because there were horrors on the way that they didn’t think it fair to…
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Starting a commons group in Stroud
The commons economy isn’t going to build itself. So a group of us in Stroud have come together to help build commons infrastructure here, and to document what happens so that it can be implemented in other towns too. Software now exists so that commons groups in different towns and regions can be connected to…