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Nestlé's achievement of AWS certification across 39 bottling sites raises deeper questions about how corporations govern shared water resources — and whether certification frameworks can transform extraction into genuine stewardship.
Senate Democrats propose ending tax benefits for firms that own 450,000 single-family homes and 2.2 million apartments — treating housing as extractive asset class rather than commons. A test of whether governance can reclaim shelter from financialization.
The Kensington Corridor Trust removes 30+ properties from speculative markets through a perpetual purpose trust governed by 32,000 local residents — testing whether collective ownership can anchor neighborhoods against displacement.
Co-founded by economist Kate Raworth, DEAL supports practitioners worldwide in translating doughnut economics from radical idea to transformative action. Works with ~50 cities and regions on local doughnut approaches — redesigning economies to meet social needs within planetary boundaries.
A whole-system planetary governance consultancy that helps governments and institutions redesign constitutions, policies, and decision-making frameworks to account for the rights of nature, future generations, and the living commons. Operates as a non-hierarchical co-stewardship collective. Applies permaculture, indigenous land stewardship, and digital commons perspectives.
Swedish foundation offering major prizes for global governance reform proposals, funding research on existential risks and planetary commons, and building networks for institutional innovation.
A network of networks initiated in 2019, emerging from India's Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) to create solidarity and strategic alliances among radical transformation movements worldwide. Coordinated by Ashish Kothari and colleagues, it maps and connects alternatives to dominant development paradigms — from agroecology and commons governance to autonomous indigenous communities — across regions and themes.
A national cooperative network of organisations and individuals working to build a fair, sustainable, and democratic economy in Australia. Connects community energy, cooperative housing, ethical finance, regenerative food systems, and local circular economies through sectoral hubs. Has operated for a decade as a model of networked economic transformation.
A global research and advocacy network founded by Michel Bauwens in 2005, dedicated to commons-oriented peer-to-peer dynamics across society, economy, and governance. Maintains an 8,000-page wiki on peer production, commons governance, and open-source alternatives. Provides theoretical grounding for platform cooperativism, digital commons, and post-capitalist transition.
A framework and network coordinated by Ashish Kothari (founding member of Kalpavriksh) advocating for governance rooted in ecological integrity, direct participation, equity, and the rights of nature. Argues that meaningful transformation requires links between grassroots alternatives and peoples' global assemblies, and challenges the assumption that a single universal governance framework can serve a pluriverse of peoples and ecologies.
A global network of community-led initiatives — Transition Towns — working toward local ecological resilience and low-carbon economies. Founded by Rob Hopkins in Totnes, UK in 2007, the movement has spread to thousands of communities worldwide. Known for bottom-up, imagination-led approaches to community transformation that address climate, economy, and social connection simultaneously.
A global collaboration of over 350 organisations, alliances, and movements working to transform economies so they deliver shared wellbeing for people and planet. Runs the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) partnership connecting Scotland, Iceland, Wales, Finland, and New Zealand.
Nested carbon accounting system with high verifiability to enable actions limiting global warming to 1.5C. Federated data commons incorporating subnational data into global commons.