Readings
Articles and Essays
Kaplan – The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
Zinn – The Common Cradle of Concern
Needleman – Two Dreams of America | Fetzer Institute Deepening the American Dream
Orwell – Politics and the English Language
by Jonathan Rowe
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
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
Links
On the Commons – www.OnTheCommons.org
City Repair – www.cityrepair.org
Pomegranate Center – www.pomegranate.org
Larner Native Seeds – www.larnerseeds.com
Living Neighborhoods – http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/wholeness.htm
(The work of Christopher Alexander who is an architect and teacher at UCB School of Architecture and has a deep understanding of place. Thanks to Cynthia Loebig for sending.)