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Who Owns the Sky? The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons | 2008
Location: Oregon State University
In winter of 2008, Spring Creek Project partnered with Oregon State University’s Philosophy Department to host an "Ideas Matter" lecture series called "Who Owns the Sky? The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons."
The series featured historian Charles Wilkinson, novelist Kim Stanley Robinson, environmental designer Ted Jojola, legal scholars Eric Freyfogle and Mary Wood, ethnoecologist Devon Peña, marine ecologist Mark Hixon, and futurist David Korten, among others. Recordings of the lectures are included below.
- The "Tribal Commons" by Charles Wilkinson
- "Conservation's Missing Framework" by Eric Freyfogle
- "The Future Is a Commons" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Ocean Commons: Unseen Tragedy, Elusive Triumph" by Mark Hixon
- "Navigating the Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community" by David Korten
- "Restoring the Commons: The Struggles of Meso-American Diaspora Farmers and Multi-generational Acequia Farmers" by Devon Peña
- "Nature's Trust" by Mary Wood