{"id":534,"date":"2010-09-02T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-09-02T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T20:31:19","slug":"what-do-we-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/09\/02\/what-do-we-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organic food. Local food. Sustainability. Renewable energy. Global warming. Social networking. So many terms and activities run their course as the &#8220;hot&#8221; new trend.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, I increasingly hear about &#8220;the commons&#8221;&#8211;drawn from the concept of the village green or village commons, the place where a community gathers, this term is now being applied to much larger spaces&#8211;like the &#8220;commons&#8221; of the shared oceans and atmosphere, or virtual gathering places. One of the blogs I follow comes from Raj Patel, who has focused a lot of his writing and thinking on local food and community control of critical resources.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utne.com\/Politics\/Commons-Reclaiming-Shared-Resources-Raj-Patel.aspx\">exerpt<\/a> from his recent book, <em>The Value of Nothing<\/em>, which ran in Utne online this week.<\/p>\n<p>Where does our common ground begin&#8230;and end?\u00a0 Raj cites the notion of &#8220;the commons&#8221; as it applies to broadcast airwaves. What else should we treat as part of the commons, in terms of resources or geographies?<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a short video about the &#8220;creative&#8221; commons:<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DKm96Ftfko?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DKm96Ftfko?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organic food. Local food. Sustainability. Renewable energy. Global warming. Social networking. So many terms and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5337,5338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}