Cultivating our communities, a living Toolbox for Commons Ecosystems

To fight neoliberalism, it is essential to create and sustain local systemic alternatives to the market economy. There are already a number of initiatives facilitating the emergence of local commons ecosystems, they work in their territories together with the people who live in them. Our project aims at identifying and connecting them to multiply their transformative power. We will benefit from sharing practices, methodologies and tools already developed and experimented to produce a toolbox to strengthen commons based initiatives for food, health, culture education, transportation,… and growing translocal alliances.

The working group Commons Ecosystems has proposed to hold a 2-day workshop in Mondeggi, a community near Firenze -where “land as a common good”, food for self-determination and free sharing of knowledge are practised- to exchange methodologies, materials, canvasses, open source digital tools… with the aim to systematise these resources creating a ready to use toolbox available to activists.