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Month: May 2025
How to install windows & doors into cob walls
Windows and doors open up your home to the world outside. Windows provide many different functions: they light our homes, show outside views, ventilate our homes, and let in heat from the sun. You can install any type of door or window into a cob wall. In this article, I will explain the components you’ll …
Step-by-step guides to growing 12 different kinds of fruit trees
Step-by-step guides to growing different kinds of fruit trees. Thanks to John Harrison of Allotment & Gardens. apples apricots cherries citrus fruits damsons figs greengages kiwi fruit olives peaches & nectarines pears plums
Help make the world’s first community-owned, commons climbing gym a reality
The world’s first community-owned, commons climbing gym is getting closer to reality. It will be a flagship for the commons models (around finance, governance, asset locking and federation) that we’re trialling in Stroud.
Money Commons: Review of ‘Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future’, by Ester Barinaga Martín
Remaking Money for a Sustainable Future: Money Commons by Ester Barinaga Martín was published in 2024 by Bristol University Press in its series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century. Available through Open Access, you can download it as pdf or epub here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89799 The book provides an in-depth view and thorough analysis of various …
May the 4th be with you: the Empire vs the Commons Rebel Alliance
There’s a global corporate / state machine (let’s call it ‘the Empire’) that destroys nature, democracy and community, and prevents peace. None of this is planned – it’s systemic, even though Empires are always founded and led by the worst among us.