The Commoners Catalog for Changemakingwas born of a simple realization: The world we have
inherited is no longer working. The future of the planet and civilization as we know it are
threatened and the cries heard during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protestsI cant
breathecontinue to echo. By giving us tools for navigating the transitions ahead this catalog
helps us breathe more deeply. The Commoners Catalog for Changemaking explains the
transformational power of social collaboration by showcasing dozens of pathbreaking projects
books websites and activist initiatives. Commoners seek to prioritize peoples needs over
market extraction steward the Earth relocalize the economy and build new institutions of
empowerment. The emerging Commonsverse can be seen in relocalized food systems and community
land trustsin racial empowerment through collective action and mutual aidand in free and open
source software peer production and platform cooperatives. Commoning is helping communities
to managing scarce water supplies farmers to develop regenerative agriculture and artists to
reclaim control of their creative lives. Ordinary people are becoming more self-reliant through
timebanking and collaborative finance care collectives and gift economies and alternative
local currencies. The Commoners Catalog for Changemaking is an indispensable guide for
understanding many profound social transformations now underway. In 25 thematic sections The
Commoners Catalog offers a rare collection of tools for navigating the transitions ahead and
building a new world. It offers a portrait of the system-change activism that is creating an
economics of sufficiency a politics of fairness and a culture of belonging.
