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This is the beginning of a list of books on the commons and comments and reviews about them.
A good place to start is the small booklet The Rule of Property by Karen Coulter. It covers the historical development of our concepts of property and the commons, the Diggers and the enclosure movement and how we got to our current concepts of property. It is readable by all levels and has great illustrations. Available at Apex Press.
William Meyers review of The Rule of Property by Karen Coulter.
Karen Coulters article The Rule of Property part 1 (written before the booklet)
The books by Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story, and The Great Work, give a big picture vision of how humans should relate to the rest of the natural world. Berry also is a proponent of rights for nature. These books are available in your library commons as well as through bookstores and the internet.
Wild Law, A Manifesto for Earth Justice by Cormac Cullinan (with a foreword and much inspiration from Thomas Berry) takes the concept of Earth Jurisprudence and Rights for Nature to the practical level. This book is highly recommended by us and is only available in the US at www.100fires.com.
London Guardian article "On Thin Ice" on Wild Law
Capitalism 3.0 by Peter Barnes promotes the idea that all of nature should be turned into property ( "propertized") and protected as human property overseen by a board of trustees ("like the Federal Reserve System" which Barnes sees as not political) His ideas for the Cultural Commons are more viable. Barnes is the founder of Working Assets, and has put a lot of thought into how Capitalism can save the world by going to the next level (3.0) We have our doubts, but check it out yourself. He has put the text of the book Capitalism 3.0 online (into the Commons) at www.onthecommons.org
Alis Valencia's Comments on Capitalism 3.0