I recently read Heart of Dryness (http://www.heartofdryness.com/) by James G. Workman. In an age of permanent drought, this book explores what we might learn from the Kalahari Bushmen about how to manage water resources. The book is well-worth reading, both intellectually and emotionally rewarding.

Circle of Blue is doing a 7-part series of excerpts here: http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/heart-of-dryness-revers...

Resource Sharing - Grounding the 21st Century Economy

Twenty-first century wealth-generating ecologies need to remain robust and flexible in order to allocate resources quickly and efficiently, and to mitigate the effects of constant fluctuations and redistributions. Nobel Prize recipient Elinor Ostrom's work on "commons" provides vital thinking towards a solution: peer governance and information transparency.

http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=resource-sharing-grounding-21st-century-...