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Although crowdsourcing is all the rage at the moment, there has to be a worry that this is just the latest fad in the world of technology...

The concept of the commons derives from common land. This still lives on in England, in the form of commons - like Clapham Common - and as ...

We need more trees. This is what they did 500 years ago: The massive depopulation of the Americas via smallpox, hepatitis and other diseas...

When is this apology for an international body going to sort itself out - or be shut down? The World Bank has been in a hurry to get its Fo...

Rare good news : A unique worldwide tree planting initiative, aimed at empowering citizens to corporations and people up to presidents to em...

A year ago, I wrote about the plight of urban trees. At the time, I never imagined we'd have a solution as far-sighted as this : A pla...

Eben Moglen is probably the most fluent and engaging speaker it has ever been my privilege to interview ; proof of his enduring appeal can b...

Talking of trees , and preserving them, here's some unwonted good news from a country that sadly seems not to be awash in it: The Bonob...

I've expressed my undying love for trees before, particularly as a way of preserving our atmospheric commons, but I had no idea that th...

No, that's not a metaphor (as in social graphs), but literally about people copyrighting trees : Then there’s the Lone Cypress, a tree a...

In 1987, the Great Storm struck south-eastern England; one result was the mass destruction of many woodlands: Because the hill was effectiv...

Here's an interesting idea on several levels: the Zerofootprint platform, powered by Business Objects, provides urban dwellers the abil...

Another great commons under threat : In towns and cities across the country, millions of other street trees are less lucky. Supersized lorri...

Just when you think there can't be any areas left uncolonised by free software, you discover treeCAD . (Via MMORPG .)

And I did eat . Wicked.

Simon Phipps raises an important point : what should be done about corporate blog pages when their owner has, er, passed on (as in to anothe...

Blige, I thought, Mikey's seen the light : In a speech today at the Consumer Electronics Show here, Mr. Dell urged the electronics indus...

A glimmer of hope: trees as the anti-desert, and the (re-)creators of a new commons.