Regenerative Commons Manifesto

* Article: From Commons to Commodities and Back: A Regenerative Commons Manifesto. Samuel Delesque. Oasa, December 27, 2025

URL = https://oasa.earth/papers/from-commons-to-commodities-and-back-regenerative-commons-manifesto/

"For centuries, Western techno-civilization has treated land and nature as objects apart – resources to extract, commodities to trade. This worldview built dazzling cities and innovations, yet it also left scars: forests felled, soils exhausted, species extinguished. Now, in an era of climate crisis and mass extinction, humanity is being forced to reconsider its relationship with nature. A new paradigm is emerging, one that marries ecological wisdom with human inventiveness, aiming to cultivate a future where we thrive because of nature, not in spite of it[1]. This manifesto-meets-thesis is a call to action and an intellectual journey, framed in the personal voice of a steward as much as a founder. It charts the path from an extractive past toward a regenerative future of commons-based stewardship. It is at once a philosophical reflection, an academic exploration, and a visionary outline of the work we undertake at OASA – an emergent protocol for land in commons."