https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ 2026-08-25T02:45:59+00:00 https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/favicon.ico text/html 2026-08-22T09:32:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/ints/housing_co-operatives?rev=1787391157&do=diff Housing co-operatives ---------- 'A co-operative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.' text/html 2026-08-22T08:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/ints/credit_clearing?rev=1787387928&do=diff Credit clearing ---------- ""If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit" - Sir Joshiah Stamp" What is credit clearing? Here’s a simple example. A owes B £10; B owes C £10; and C owes A £10. None of them has to obtain £10 to pay their debt. They can just cancel out, or ‘clear’ it. But it needs some sharing of information. In this case, A will only know that they owe B £10 and that C ow… text/html 2026-08-21T13:08:11+00:00 Otto Hague (osedax@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/nuts/nuts?rev=1787317691&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming and Bushcraft & Nature. Nuts & nut trees ---------- " “Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.” - John Evelyn " What are nuts? As a rough definition, nuts are seeds more than about 1cm in diameter. There is a botanical, precise definition for a text/html 2026-08-21T12:51:23+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wild/wild_food?rev=1787316683&do=diff This topic is part of Bushcraft & Nature. Wild food foraging ---------- " “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness. ” - E. B. White " What is wild food? text/html 2026-08-19T14:07:26+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/test_topic_page?rev=1787148446&do=diff This topic is part of Group Name. Test topic page ---------- " Inspiring quotation " — Source Introduction Why test topic page? What can I do? ---------- Have your say on our forum We encourage all readers to use the forum, where you can give your opinion, ask questions or give responses on the corresponding text/html 2026-08-19T14:07:00+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/test_topic_page2?rev=1787148420&do=diff text/html 2026-08-19T02:11:36+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/hram/hydraulic_ram_pumps?rev=1787105496&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming and Water & sewage. Hydraulic ram pumps ---------- " “Hydraulic ram pumps can lift water over a considerable elevation, and do not require any external power source.” - W. Bryan Smith, Clemson University " What are hydraulic ram pumps? text/html 2026-08-19T00:11:26+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cryp/cryptocurrencies?rev=1787098286&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & media and Economy & finance. Cryptocurrencies ---------- " “Those on the inside see cryptocurrencies as prions, infecting and transmuting corporate structure into distributed networks.” - Rafe Furst " What are cryptocurrencies? Cryptocurrencies are digital 'coins' which can be owned by anybody, in principal anonymously, and which can be transferred without the aid of a trusted 3rd party like a bank, or Paypal or Western Union. Instead of that institution h… text/html 2026-08-18T23:21:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wiks/wikis?rev=1787095282&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & media. Wikis ---------- " “Good thing it works in practice, because it sure doesn’t work in theory.” - Alex Pasternack " What are wikis? Wikis are software packages that make it as easy as possible to edit material online, so that there can be an information text/html 2026-08-18T23:11:37+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cofi/money?rev=1787094697&do=diff This page is part of the topic Collaborative Finance. Money ---------- " Give me control over a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws " — Attributed to Amschel Mayer Rothschild Introduction ---------- " “The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.” - J K Galbraith text/html 2026-08-18T22:59:12+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/smho/smallholding?rev=1787093952&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Smallholding [Smallholding] ---------- " “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” - Abraham Lincoln " What is smallholding? A smallholding is a residential site with more land than a garden, but less than a farm. The land is typically used for productive mixed crops including livestock raised on a non-commercial basis and woodland management for fuel. Often there wi… text/html 2026-08-18T18:49:53+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/template_for_topics?rev=1787078993&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & Media. (Well, it isn't, but it could be!) Annotated template for topics (h1) (This, above, is the topic title) (This is the image; the caption follows): By MiguelMunoz - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84374532> This is a Penrose tiling. This image or graphic needs to have width:height = 4:3, as it will also be used as an image in the topic group grid menu, and the images in the grids all need the same aspect ratio. I… text/html 2026-08-18T15:30:25+00:00 Dave Darby (dave@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/matslats?rev=1787067025&do=diff Matthew Slater About me Since the Financial Crisis of 2008 I've been building and maintaining community currency systems, used mostly in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Along the way I've explored the nature of money and run a few workshops and courses. Around 2019 I published the Credit Commons protocol, a way for independent community currencies to keep accounts with each other. text/html 2026-08-18T15:29:32+00:00 Dave Darby (dave@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/bloc/blockchain?rev=1787066972&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & media. Blockchain ---------- " “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” - 'Satoshi Nakamoto' text/html 2026-08-18T12:14:56+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/foss/open_source?rev=1787055296&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & media. Free & open source software [Free & open source software] ---------- " “As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict … text/html 2026-08-17T22:56:56+00:00 Katja Durrani (katja@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cple/copyleft?rev=1787007416&do=diff This topic is part of Digital & media and Economy & finance. Copyleft ---------- " “This song is Copyrighted in the US, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do. text/html 2026-08-17T22:24:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/playground/playground?rev=1787005480&do=diff PlayGround Hello from Dave Hello from Simon what can you annotate? text/html 2026-08-17T09:53:48+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/g/start?rev=1786960428&do=diff This is the space for groups * Bristol Commons * Stroud Commons text/html 2026-08-17T09:36:03+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/annotations?rev=1786959363&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Annotations We have added a “plugin” for annotation in our DokuWiki, to allow people to make comments and suggestions without actually editing the text itself. The official documentation is here: plugin:annotations but you are not expected to read that! Here we will give you the basics in, hopefully, a straightforward, easy-to-follow way. text/html 2026-08-11T20:30:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/?image=wiki%3Adokuwiki-128.png&ns=wiki&rev=1786480255&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=bb78a7" alt="dokuwiki-128.png" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" />