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# Commons

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<summary><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>How the Commons Works</strong></mark></summary>

#### <mark style="color:$primary;">**How the Commons Works**</mark>

Three tiers, one living library.

Commons holds the frameworks, tools, references, and offerings produced through BSL's work and the work of its members. Resources are organized into three tiers based on access:

<mark style="color:$primary;">**Open**</mark>\
Free for everyone, including the public. Frameworks, foundational references, primers, and methodology documentation available on bioregionalsystemslab.org. This is how the work serves the broader field.

<mark style="color:$primary;">**Member**</mark>\
Free for all BSL members. Refined tools, internal guides, and practice resources developed through cooperative work. A tangible benefit of membership that deepens as the cooperative develops.

<mark style="color:$primary;">**Service**</mark>\
Priced. Practitioner expertise and specialized offerings that require someone's time and craft. Available to anyone, with member discounts. Compensation flows directly to the contributor, with a facilitation fee supporting Commons stewardship.

#### <mark style="color:$primary;">**Contributing to the Commons**</mark>

Every member can contribute. When you develop a methodology, refine a practice, produce a resource through your bioregional work, or distill something you have learned into a form others can use, submit it to Commons. Contributions go through a lightweight quality review, then are published with attribution to you.

Contributions become part of the shared infrastructure for the bioregional field and are visible on your member profile within the cooperative.

→ [Submit a contribution](/dev/explore/about.md)

#### <mark style="color:$primary;">**Quality and Curation**</mark>

Resources carry version numbers and maturity states (Concept, Seed, Alpha, Beta, Active) and are maintained as living documents.

A Commons Council, drawn from BSL Stewards and the BSL Team, curates the Featured collection, maintains quality standards, and ensures Commons reflects the depth and breadth of the cooperative's work.

Community recognition helps surface the most useful resources. Outdated or superseded resources are archived rather than deleted; the cooperative remembers what it has learned.

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<mark style="color:$primary;">**A Bioregional Glossary**</mark>\
A working vocabulary for bioregional practitioners. Foundational terms across systems thinking, ecology, governance, and coordination architecture.&#x20;

[Read](/dev/commons/reference/a-bioregional-glossary.md) →

<mark style="color:$primary;">**Context Migration Guide**</mark>\
A method for migrating an AI conversation into a new context window. For practitioners using Claude, GPT, or other large language models in substantive work.

[Read](/dev/commons/reference/context-migration-guide.md) →

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<summary><mark style="color:$primary;"><strong>Suggest a Resource</strong></mark></summary>

This section grows through contribution. If you have encountered a paper, report, talk, tool, or resource that belongs here, we want to know about it. Suggestions are reviewed by the BSL Team and added with attribution.

[Suggest a resource](/dev/explore/about.md) →

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<sup>*<mark style="color:$info;">**Commons evolves continuously. The featured section is refreshed on a weekly to monthly rhythm.**</mark>*</sup>\ <sup>*<mark style="color:$info;">**Last editorial update: May 2026.**</mark>*</sup>


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