The commons is a newly rediscovered but ancient paradigm for managing shared wealth. With deep historical and legal roots, it is also a social and ethical discourse that critiques market capitalism while moving beyond it with creative, self-organized systems for meeting needs. With projects that range from online cooperatives to alternative currencies and relocalized food production to community-based fisheries and forests, a diversified global movement is building a parallel economy around all sorts of commons. With this section, GEO will showcase some of the more notable developments in the commons world on an ongoing basis.