Recent Blog Entries About Knowledge

Recently, our Heritable Innovation Trust team had the pleasure of visiting and starting a partnership with the Hasu Shivert Resort in the Arkhangai province, Mongolia. Owner and Director, Hasu Shivert Munkhbat, gave us a tour of his fine facility and discussed partnership opportunities with the Global Innovation Commons and Heritable Innovation Trust teams. One of the two Global Innovation Challenges to be posted early next week will include innovation on his A-Frame greenhouse. Challenge outline to come.

Over the last two weeks, the Heritable Innovation Trust/Global Innovation Commons team had the wonderful opportunity to meet two local glass workers/engineers/artists, Diana Branscome and Bill Hess.

Written by our previously featured author, Elinor Ostrom, along with the National Research Council, The Committee of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Paul C. Stern, Susan Stonich, and Elke U. Weber, "The Drama of The Commons" discusses an introduction to the commons.

Their research over the past thirty years has helped to clarify how human motivations, rules governing acess to reserouces, the structure of social organizations, and the resource systems themselves interact to determine whether or not the many dramas of the commons end happily.

Felipe Campolina, a Brazilian architect, has designed what could easily be classified as the next new thing in modular emergency shelters. The ECObitat is a steel framed modular system which offers an entire eco-friendly home including a bedroom, living area, and kitchen all within a 8 x 10 x 40 foot structure.