Featured Articles
06.03.11
Simon Fairlie describes how the progressive enclosure of commons over several centuries has deprived most of the British people of access to agricultural land. The historical process bears little relationship to the “Tragedy of the Commons”, the theory which ideologues in the neoliberal era adopted as part of a smear campaign against common property institutions.
05.03.11
Mike Hannis investigates the history and politics of 'development', and asks whether it has always involved separating people from land.
04.03.11
A Conservative Lib-Dem government is ideally placed to represent the views of rural Britain. So what can the countryside expect from this unlikely coupling? Ed Hamer investigates
04.03.11
At the moment Britain imports nearly 40 per cent of its food, most of its energy and nearly all of its fibre. In years to come we might have to become more self-sufficient. If so, it would not be for the first time. Many people alive today remember the last time the UK had to resort to home production. Could we do it again? And could we do it with organic agriculture? Simon Fairlie investigates
21.01.11
Ed Hamer discovers a European youth movement taking action on the issue of access to agricultural land
10.10.10
Can energy efficiency save the world? Mike Hannis examines China’s drive to achieve carbon savings in the light of a new book on the rebound effect.
01.10.10
A celebration of the poet John Clare, a passionate defender of the commons, by John Felstiner.
06.01.09
Environmental strategists are redefining nature as a capitalist commodity. Sian Sullivan explains the latest thinking from those pushing for the global enclosure of local commons.
