The Commons:
A wide open, world-wide forum concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. Seeking out and supporting new sustainability concepts for business, entrepreneurs, activists, community groups, and government; a thorn in the side of hesitant administrators, politicians and businessmen in denial; and through our joint efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just society.
Two to four year (max.) focus:
The Commons defines its patch in this big and needy world by focusing on programs and measures that can obtain visible, measurable sustainability impacts within this very short term horizon. It is not that we neglect the importance of longer term thinking and overarching strategies for these longer term trends and goals - but that we think that the short term is too critical to be neglected. The search is thus on for short term measures that open the way for more ambitious and far reaching longer term strategies and structures..
Collaboration: The soul of The Commons:
We set as our goal many years ago to create with The Commons an independent interactive platform for new thinking and collaborative problem-solving to take on the arduous challenges of sustainable development and social justice -- a platform mediated by low cost IP technologies, made freely available to all, based on open networking and aggressive international outreach, supporting structured information exchanges and collaborative peer action programs on the matters which are of main concern to us.
