David Bollier will be our guest in the next event in our series of Meetings with Remarkable Commoners. We are truly thrilled by going to have David with us for an evening of candid conversations about the Commons as a model of ecological governance, how to roll back the capitalist enclosures, protect our commons, build new ones, and transition to a sustainable world.

David is also the co-editor with Silke Helfrich of the brand new anthology, "The Wealth of the Commons — a World beyond Market and State." In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources - often known as market enclosures - while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. (One of those essays is about our School of Commoning.)

The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale - but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources.

"This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future.

Come to celebrate with us the UK launch of this amazing anthology of 442 pages, meet with David Bollier and fellow commoners, and share your questions and inspirations about the Commons. You can already start it here, by posting a reply to this announcement.

There will be a limited number of copies available for purchase at the introductory price of £14 (cash only), unless the agreement with a major UK book distributor gets finalised before the event, in which case we can get as many copies as we want.