Readings & Links
Articles and Essays
- Mies – Subsistence
- Kaplan – The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
- Zinn – The Common Cradle of Concern
- Barfield – Equity
- Needleman – Two Dreams of America | Fetzer Institute Deepening the American Dream
- Orwell – Politics and the English Language
by Jonathan Rowe
The published articles of Jonathan Rowe are now collected on this website.
Here are a few of our favorites:
The Commons
The Hidden Commons YES! June 2001
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/the-hidden-commons
How Commerce Consumed the Commons YES! November 2005
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/go-local/how-commerce-consumed-the-commons
Prozac or Park Benches? The Ecologist April 2007
http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/04/social-ecology.html
The Parallel Economy of the Commons State of the World 2008
Down Among The Economists Adbusters July, 1999
http://www.wairaka.net/ubinz/IR/items/199907JonathonRowe.html
The Stupidity of Conventional Economics
If The Economy Is Up Why Is America Down? Atlantic October 1995
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ecbig/gdp.htm
Our Phony Economy Harpers June 2008
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082042
Consuming Illness The National January 9, 2009
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090109/REVIEW/976061445/1008
“Recycle Circus: The Commerce of a Community” On The Commons April 24, 2007
http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1071
It’s the Economy, Stupid Pacific Sun October 2008
http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=2504
Recommended Books
To Know A Place: Local Knowledge About The Land
- Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California Natural Resources – M. Kat Anderson
- Gardening with a Wild Heart – Judith Larner Lowry
- The Landscaping Ideas of Jays – Judith Larner Lowry
Online Forums
Commons Connect Forums provide a virtual gathering place to those who live and work in the West Marin Community. (Access to this local online forum is limited to those who work and live in the geographical area outlined here.)
A single registration allows community members to post local events on the Community Calendar, to post items of immediate importance on Alerts, and to access all of the forums including:
- West Marin Soapbox: Campaigns, Causes, and Discussions
- Over-the-Hill-Gang: Rides and Errands
- West Marin Share: Reuse materials; share information and services - a money free zone
- West Marin Marketplace: rentals; things and services for sale
- Tending the Wild Collaborative: An Ethnobiology Project
- Local Food System Initiative: Food and garden related shares and information
- Think Local West Marin: Appreciation and applause for our neighbors
- Commons Connect Tech Support: Help with our Web site features
- Volunteering Opportunities in West Marin: Help our local non-profits
