Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an "energy internet," just like we now create and share information online.

For her work that made her the first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, Ostrom identified eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management which "debunked" the inevitability of the trajedy of the commons and universalized conditions of functional and often traditional resource systems around the world.

These principles have since been slightly modified and expanded to include a number of additional variables believed to affect the success of self-organized governance systems, including effective communication, internal trust and reciprocity, and the nature of the resource system as a whole with progressive reinvestment of profits from nested enterprises within a commons.  FUNDAEC.org is one of the most robust examples of such commons based economic frameworks, with a 150,000+ farmer strong cooperative economy network spanning 7 countries and 4 indigenous language groups.