Since 2001, Lowimpact.org has provided information, advice and articles on community and household provisioning. Our content has now moved to Growing the Commons (GtC), a ‘knowledge commons’ launched in 2025 – a global resource, owned and governed by practitioners, comprising:

1. Knowledge base. Browse the huge bank of commons and commons-related topics. We need these skills to provide for our communities and to build commons and small businesses. Topics are maintained by specialist curators, who will add new topics, so the knowledge is held as a genuine commons.

2. Blog, with news, projects and opinions. Please subscribe.

3. Forum, for comments, discussion and queries. Please register and say hello.

There’ll be a book out soon by Dave Darby, founder of Lowimpact.org: The Commoners’ Manifesto: Neither Capitalism Nor Communism.

Below is a snapshot of the Lowimpact.org topics in 2025.

 

The Commons

We're part of a network in Stroud, Liverpool and London, building commons infrastructure in all sectors; we're talking with people in other towns and countries about 'replicating and federating' successful commons projects to build the foundations of a commons economy.

Stroud Commons are building commons infrastructure in Stroud that can be replicated in other towns.

Local Loop Merseyside are building a city-wide credit clearing scheme for Liverpool that can be replicated in other cities.

Mutual Credit Services are a London-based org designing commons models for all sectors of the economy.

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Interviews with people helping to build the commons economy and to provide things for ourselves in communities.

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