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.
(By Herald Post under a Creative Commons license)
In the Netherlands, older people bike at exactly the same rate as the rest of the population-- about 25 percent of all trips. (Photo by Amsterdamize under a Creative Commons license.)
Pope Francis speaking at the European Parliament last year. (Photo by the European Parliament under a Creative Commons license.)
(Photo by Lee Morley under a Creative Commons license.)
(Photo by Matt Karp under a Creative Commons license.)
Novelist and libertarian guru Ayn Rand considered altruism a form of "self-destruction." (Photo illustration by Playing Futures under a Creative Commons license.)
(By LaDawna Howard under a CC license.)
Drinking water for New York City is protected by strict land use policies in places far from the city. (By David Leip under a CC license.)
By Chuck Grimmett under a CC license
By Alba Soler under a CC license
The American debate sounds absurd (and heartless) to the rest of the industrialized world
Gene patents stifle research, inflate prices, and prevent people from getting treatment.
By Scott Beale under a Creative Commons license
Why it's good for us, our communities, the environment and the economy