Central Ohio is a beacon of commons-building for the midwest. Groups of people here are working passionately to direct attention to affect changes that create conditions where our system of laws and institutions uphold our ability as human beings to thrive in an environment that prioritizes having our actual needs met.
Sustainable living communities are thriving through organizations such as ‘Simply Living’, and many sub-local sustainability groups. We are a mecca of community gardening.  With more than 300 urban community gardens, Columbus is recognized as a hub in the nation.
Social and environmental justice groups are building awareness and power, as the political power paradigm is being shifted by people who are passionate enough about our collective lives to work for a better society for everyone.
Yes We Can, Columbus is striving to improve the local governance in city hall, the city school board, and in keeping local political parties transparent in representing what the original party intentions always have been about.
Columbus Community Bill of Rights is working hard as part of the community rights movement, to enact local laws that will protect local residents from contamination of our water, soil and air resources from fossil fuel industry waste disposal.
Why do we call ourselves a ‘Commons’? The Commons is a concept that has been buried deep beneath the everyday frenetic, competitive environment of our current political-economic landscape. It is deeply intuitive within all of us and is waiting to have its light turned on within each one of our minds and hearts.  The Commons has everything to do with ‘Economic Democracy‘, and understanding it has everything to do with whether we will be a thriving civilization in the future that prioritizes our common needs being met as first priority, or if we will continue to live under a version of haves and have-nots that forever creeps and tumbles into an increase of suffering through the slavery of poverty from lack of self-governance.