the Shift

This section is designed to signal and elaborate the shifts in thinking needed to drive that change effort grouped around three broad categories: 1) what has to change, 2) what we must protect, and 3) what we need to create.

Our vision of the Social Commons has mapped out a set of core pillars that will frame and guide the work. This reflects a number of over-arching ideas:
• Governance more focused on community needs and local aspirations
• A shift from a consumer/growth economy to a solidarity/caring economy
• Strengthened international governance and human rights to tackle global problems
• Strong social rights and protections delivered through an emancipatory state consistent with UN declarations and cultural, social and economic rights
• A more democratized economy where the private market is embedded within a community building goods creation, resource sharing and distribution system, and
• Social and economic institutions designed to work within the carrying capacity of the ecological systems of regions, nations and the bio-sphere

Taken together, these changes would dramatically reshape society in ways that build solidarity, trust, community and a deeper democracy that improves both well-being and prosperity. Join with us in contributing to this effort.