Let's Talk about the Commons

If we can learn to collaborate on this local commons, we could use those same skills, habits, relationships, and networks, to collaborate on even bigger challenges, including our global commons.

This is a draft chapter in Book 1 - Verge Gardening for Individuals and Groups.
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In Australia, we rarely talk about the commons. We talk about public meeting spaces like parks and community halls that we expect the government to maintain.

Many of what we think of as public me…