Anthropocene Commons
The Anthropocene Commons (AC) is a network of researchers, educators, activists, artists, scientists, and partner groups (“hubs”) from all over the world working on the Anthropocene, the current time period in which human activities have fundamentally changed the planet. By commoning our skills, knowledge, and resources, the community imagines and explores practices of transformative pedagogies and collective action. To illustrate that the AC exists as a network, this website aggregates content from hub websites. Please see the FAQ for more information on how to get involved.
Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange
The Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange (2022-2024) is the working title for an expansive educational and research collaboration through the formation of five river hubs spanning the river’s headwaters to the Gulf. Our partners have been working on issues related to the river for years, and an earlier project, Mississippi. An Anthropocene River (2018-2019), opened up an opportunity to continue to collaborate on a multi-year project on issues spanning the length of the river.
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Jena
The institute pursues cross-disciplinary research projects, e.g. on planetary urbanization, the global food system, global material, energy and information flows, and human-ecosystem dynamics, and aims to provide a collaborative synthesis service in which data and expertise from various sub-disciplines such as climate research, biodiversity research and the social sciences are brought together, modeled and interpreted (hub model).