COMMONS MAGAZINE
Science and Health Science is fundamentally a collective pursuit of knowledge through open sharing and collaboration over many generations. Advances in health care and wellness also flow from public research and healing traditions that belong to us all. An urgent challenge of out time is finding a better balance between commerce and the commons in these critical areas that profoundly affect everyone.
Republican mayor Mick Cornett (left) inaugurates one of many new sidewalk projects. (Photo from America Walks case study)
(By Laura Nawrocik under a Creative Commons license.)
The debate about saving the village hospital on the TV show mirrors the fate of community hospitals in the US today. (Photo by Kevin Oliver under a Creative Commons license.)
(By AJ Shroetlin under a creative commons license)
By Russell Mondy under a Creative Commons license
By Pedro Ribeiro Simoes under a Creative Commons license
By the European Parliament under a Creative Commons license
(By Janet Schill, Expressions Graphics, Oak Park, Illinois. Rights reserved)
By Scott Beale under a Creative Commons license
26 Governors told the Supreme Court that the health reform law is unconstitutional because the federal government is too generous. Huh?
Healthy living conditions and community cohesion boost everyone's health. (Photo by Project for Public Spaces)
Personal health and community health linked in three projects in the Twin Cities
Innovation depends on access to shared, cumulative research.