https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ 2026-05-27T00:26:35+00:00 https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/favicon.ico text/html 2026-05-25T16:36:43+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/soci/sociocracy?rev=1779727003&do=diff This topic is part of Community & culture and Learning & personal development. Sociocracy ---------- "“So long as we are ruled by fear and distrust, it’s impossible to solve the problems of the world. The more trust grows and the more fear diminishes, the more the problem will shrink.” — Kees Boeke text/html 2026-05-20T11:25:44+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cofi/collaborative_finance?rev=1779276344&do=diff This topic is part of Economy & finance. Collaborative Finance (CoFi) ---------- The commons movement is a backlash to the idea of private property, in which ownership of land and other assets is exclusive, which gradually splits society into classes of owners and of the dispossessed. But ownership is just a part of the problem. text/html 2026-05-15T14:53:06+00:00 Dave Darby (dave@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/mhdr/micro-hydro?rev=1778856786&do=diff This topic is part of Power & heating. Micro-hydro ---------- "“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” - Lao Tzu" What is micro-hydro? A micro-hydro system converts the potential energy in a stream of moving water into electrical energy. The principles of hydropower are the same whatever the size of the system. Micro-hydro refers to small systems that can be installed by individual homes, businesses or farms. text/html 2026-05-15T14:27:45+00:00 Dave Darby (dave@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/coec/commons_economy?rev=1778855265&do=diff This topic is part of Economy & finance. Commons economy ---------- ""You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller "People who are directly affected by and have to live with a resource are more likely to manage that resource sustainably." - Elinor Ostrom text/html 2026-05-15T14:23:47+00:00 Dave Darby (dave@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/hydp/hydroponics?rev=1778855027&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Hydroponics ---------- ""Hydroponics can generate food crops from barren desert sand and desalinated ocean water, in mountainous regions too steep to farm, on city rooftops and concrete schoolyards and in arctic communities." - University of Arizona text/html 2026-05-13T20:00:47+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/getting_an_account?rev=1778702447&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Getting started with an account To contribute to curating these pages, you will need to set up an account, similarly to on many other sites. We give our curators editing rights over specific topics, and we are encouraging collective responsibility for maintaining and extending those aspects of the knowledge base. (It's not like Wikipedia, where anyone can change anything.) text/html 2026-05-13T15:07:06+00:00 Otto Hague (osedax@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/ntpw/natural_pest_and_weed_control?rev=1778684826&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Natural pest & weed control ---------- ""By encouraging natural predators of any specific pest into the area, the pest in question will be controlled. Ladybirds, lacewings, frogs, hedgehogs and birds are all great at limiting numbers of garden pests such as aphids and slugs." - RSPB text/html 2026-05-13T14:30:23+00:00 Otto Hague (osedax@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/nuts/nuts?rev=1778682623&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 2026-05-04T15:51:52+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/?image=user%3Ajulia_a.png&ns=user&rev=1777909912&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/user/julia_a.png?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=081d12" alt="julia_a.png" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" /> text/html 2026-05-04T15:02:30+00:00 Julia Adams (adamsj@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/?image=user%3Ajulia_adams2-9439finlr.jpeg&ns=user&rev=1777906950&tab_details=history&media_do=diff&do=media <img src="https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/user/julia_adams2-9439finlr.jpeg?w=500&amp;h=500&amp;tok=cc5cfd" alt="julia_adams2-9439finlr.jpeg" loading="lazy" width="500" height="500" /> text/html 2026-05-04T14:59:48+00:00 Julia Adams (adamsj@undisclosed.example.com) 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