{"id":2614,"date":"2013-10-01T17:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2013-10-01T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:46:28","slug":"danish-book-on-communities-and-commons-commonities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2013\/10\/01\/danish-book-on-communities-and-commons-commonities\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish book on communities and commons: commonities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Danish energy revolution at the island Sams\u00f8, a world leader in renewable energy, comes this charming and thoughtful book on communities and commons. The theme is communities governing commons, dubbed <em>commonities<\/em>. Written by the driving force behind Sams\u00f8\u2019s remarkable feat, S\u00f8ren Hermansen, and the internationally acclaimed Danish science writer and thinker Tor N\u00f8rretranders, the book brings together practical experience, down-to-earth cleverness and theoretical ideas of community and commons.<\/p>\n<p>The book is <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B00FI67IRO\">available as a Kindle book from Amazon<\/a>. It has been beautifully translated from Danish by Jonathan Sydenham. It was published <a href=\"http:\/\/energiakademiet.dk\/bogen-faelledskab-er-i-handlen-fra-1-dec-2011\/\">on paper in Denmark in December 2011 by Sams\u00f8 Energiakademi,<\/a> home of the energy expertise of Sams\u00f8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2013\/10\/01\/danish-book-on-communities-and-commons-commonities\/commonties_cover_e-bog\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1813,2500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Commonties_cover_e-bog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog-742x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2616\" title=\"Commonties_cover_e-bog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog-624x860.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Commonties_cover_e-bog.jpg 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>The book presentation at Amazon:<\/h5>\n<p>Communities can overcome the forces that split societies apart. After decades dominated by selfishness, cooperation is now back on the agenda. The climate crisis and the green technology challenge calls for curiosity and the joy of finding new ways. The solutions of the future do not come from the headquarters, but from the outskirts where communities govern common resources. Communities governing commons is a new force in history. This book propose the term commonities.<\/p>\n<p>Gothenburg-award winning, Time magazine Hero of the Environment S\u00f8ren Hermansen, the driving force behind the transformation of the Danish island Sams\u00f8 into one of the worlds leading success stories about renewable energy governed by a community, tell a breathtaking series of down-to-earth stories about renewables and communities, from Sams\u00f8 to the rest of the world. Internationally acclaimed bestselling science writer and social thinker Tor N\u00f8rretranders, author of books on consciousness, creativity, social behavior and the environment, tell the story of modern behavioral science perspectives on communities and commons, drawing on traditions spanning from neurobiology and experimental economics to Elinor Ostrom&#8217;s work on governing the commons.<\/p>\n<p>The book comprises a duet of practical tales and theoretical essays united by the idea of commonities as a stronger force than the market and the state. The new world does not originate from the top level, but from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p>An optimistic and generous vision: Commonities as the future of human societies in the age of climate challenges.<\/p>\n<p>More info on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/da\/2013\/10\/01\/faelledskab-pa-engelsk-commonity\/\">Danish-language part of Tor.dk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2619\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2619\" data-attachment-id=\"2619\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2013\/10\/01\/danish-book-on-communities-and-commons-commonities\/samso-vindmoller\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"907,680\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;From a lecture slide&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2619\" title=\"Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-624x467.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a lecture slide<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2013\/10\/01\/danish-book-on-communities-and-commons-commonities\/samso-vindmoller-hav\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,676\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sams\u00f8 vindm\u00f8ller hav\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2618\" title=\"Sams\u00f8 vindm\u00f8ller hav\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav-624x466.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sams\u00f8-vindm\u00f8ller-hav.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Danish energy revolution at the island Sams\u00f8, a world leader in renewable energy, comes this charming and thoughtful book on communities and commons. The theme is communities governing commons, dubbed commonities. Written by the driving force behind Sams\u00f8\u2019s remarkable feat, S\u00f8ren Hermansen, and the internationally acclaimed Danish science writer and thinker Tor N\u00f8rretranders, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[203,206,205,204,21,208,22,207,23,47],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-climate","tag-commonities","tag-commons","tag-communities","tag-cooperation","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-renewable","tag-samso","tag-soren-hermansen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2FKoN-Ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}