On the Commons: the Mississippi River as a Public Good

From River Talk:

You won't find many who are nostalgic for the 1970s--that hair!  Those clothes!
But one thing I miss from the 1970s is a sense of things that we shared as a community, and our common responsibilities to protect and steward the things that made all of our lives richer.  I saw this a lot in planning for public spaces, in resource management planning and design projects.  There was a sense that there was an "us" and that, together, we could protect and enhance places that we shared in common.

Like the Mississippi River, for example.

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