CRITICAL LINKS AND RELEVANT GROUPS, CAMPAIGNS AND INFORMATION

• FREEDOM PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
  
  
• NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION includes special focus on reducing noise in public parks and common areas shared by everyone. News of anti-noise pollution efforts in local and national parks around the nation is offered.
  Excerpt: "In seeking to advance an ethic of the commons, we first need to recognize that competing uses that exclude other uses of the commons or damaging uses that detract from other uses are not wise uses of a public good. The commons should be used in as many non-competing, non-damaging ways as possible. Noise, like many other pollutants, precludes many enjoyable uses of the commons and is not a wise use of the commons"
  
  
• FRIENDS OF THE COMMONS is focused on the rich legacy that belongs to us all including the air, the oceans, our knowledge, language and religions. The Commons also includes public parks such as Freedom Park. Friends of the Commons is a new citizens' group that reports on the state of our commons and supports other citizens working to protect and expand our commons.