Other Resources

For resources related to Community-Led Universal Basic Services, please see the following sites. This list will continue to be updated.

 

Community Economies Institute and Research Network

 

Degrowth

 

Degrowth (US-focused)

 

The Food Project

 

Institute for Global Prosperity (University College London)

 

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

 

International Society for Ecological Economics

 

Solidarity Economies Map

 

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms

 

 

Here’s a list of books that have helped to inform the ideas behind Community-Led Universal Basic Services. This list will also continue to be updated.

 

Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America by Dona Brown

 

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam

 

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era by Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demario, and Giorgios Kallis (eds.)

 

Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth

 

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom

 

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian

 

Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town by Brian Donahue

 

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

 

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich

 

 

Concepts

Universal Basic Services

Decommodification

Conviviality

Other Terms

Critiques