Foreword by Bill McKibben 

Introduction by Peter Barnes 

THEORY

1 Our Hidden Wealth 

2 How Tragic Is the Commons? 

3 A New Commons Story

4 A Parallel Economy 

5 Stop the Invasions!

6 The Myopia of Money 

7 Human Nature and the Commons 

8 Common Property 

9 Takers and Givers 

10 The Community of Goods 

11 Conservative Commoners, Once 

PRACTICE

12 Accounting for Common Wealth 

13 Tollbooths of the Mind

14 Subsistence from the Commons

15 Build It and They Will Sit 

16 Sidewalks of the Information Age 

17 Reallocating Time

18 Time Banking 

19 Who Owns the Beach?

20 From Alleys to Commons 

21 New Institutions Needed 

22 Seeds of a Commons Movement

Afterword by David Bollier 

Notes 

Acknowledgments 

Index

About the Author 

About the Editor 

About On The Commons 

About West Marin Commons