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Why the "festival of commoning" rather than the "festival of the commons"? @dilgreen explains that there are many forms of the latter, but the verb form covers all and emphasises the action needed
First session was from the Stroud Commons group talking about the housing commons they're setting up
I missed details of the energy commons in the last session
Now it's Stroud Earth Community http://www.earthcommunitytrust.org/ who run (and are crowd funding to buy) Trinity Rooms where the festival is being held #FoC24
The story of Stroud Climbing Commons reminds me lots of the challenges we faced with setting up @DoESLiverpool - finding enough people to fund it, persuading insurers to handle risks without needing staff to supervise...
Now hearing from the Bristol Commons. Lots of echoes with the challenges for space and the losses of spaces within Liverpool.
"How do we spread to the 'non-woke' mainstream?"
The million dollar question, from Diana Finch; talking about the struggles of scaling the Bristol Pound
First session post-lunch sees Immy Kaur telling the story of Impact Hub Birmingham and its metamorphosis into Civic Square https://civicsquare.cc/
"political organising is boring and that's why we let bastards do it" Lots of interesting thoughts from Clare Farrel of #XR and https://humanityproject.uk/