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| Community Garden in Detroit (Photo: David Guralnick, The Detroit News) |
David Bollier has written a piece for the Huffington Post titled "The Commons as a Rising Alternative to State and Market". Bollier highlights new alternative commons like:
- open-access science journals, Directory of Open Access Journals
- community gardens
- digital hackerspaces
- alternative payment systems, like community currencies or Bitcoin
- seed-sharing collectives, Seed Savers Exchange
- crowdfunding, i.e. Kickstarter & Indiegogo
Since many of these examples of wealth are decentralized it's not likely you will hear about them on the centrally controlled outcast media. But understand that for those in need of resources there are many options available. It just takes a little sifting and digging to connect with people in the new underground commons.
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