Commons UK
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| Location | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 54° 42' 8.48" N, 3° 16' 35.67" W |
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of UK community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism to grow the commons.
Commons are often associated with natural resources like the oceans and forests — areas that belong to everyone. But commons are not just resources. They are not simply Wikipedia pages or the city grounds used for urban gardening. They comprise of a resource, a community, and a set of social protocols. The three are an integrated, interdependent whole.
News
Direct Access To Power, Alternative Editorial (Mar 23, 2025)
- "Laying the foundations for the hopeful, creative, just transition that we know is in our hearts". Civic Square mapping eco-possibilities for the West Midlands, Daily Alternative (Dec 03, 2024)
- “We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)
- Solving the housing crisis via the commons, By Dil Green, resilience.org (Aug 23, 2024)
- Stroud Housing Commons: latest developments, lowimpact.org (May 08, 2024)
Video
Networks and support initiatives
- Low-Impact Living Initiative, provides information, opinion and advice on 250+ self-provisioning and commons topics. LowimpactTV, on youtube.com. links checked 13:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Mutual Credit Services, Building the Credit Commons
Resources
- Use-credit obligations - introduction. Information from Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services and Chris Cook of Island Power on lowimpact.org
- Housing commons - introduction. Information from Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services on lowimpact.org
News archive
2017-2023
- The Stroud Commons aims to shift housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care & the means of exchange into community ownership, The Daily Alternative (Jul 08, 2023)
- Stroud Commons part 1: We’re putting our house into the ‘commons’. Follow our progress and replicate it in your community, lowimpact.org (Jan 08, 2023)
- Reflections on building the ‘Commons’ economy, lowimpact.org (Jul 17, 2022)
- Universal Basic Everything by @TessyBritton...medium.com May 30, 2020.
- Plunder of the commons: compensate the commoners! Sep 13, 2019...openDemocracy
- Building a new social commons, May 2, 2017...NEF
External links
- Shared Assets, Land Explorer, a project from Shared Assets, helping you find information on land in the UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2024–2025). "Commons UK". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |