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Future Learning Design PodcastEducation as a Commons - A Conversation with David BollierAs many regular listeners to the podcast know, on this channel we have been exploring the new kinds of educational institutions that are emerging in response to the challenges that our legacy institutions are facing. For the last 150 years we've gotten used to compulsory standardised schooling being provided at scale by either the state, as public government schools, or by the market, as private fee-paying schools. I'm fascinated by the question of what alternatives there might be to this binary choice. Home-schooling networks, religious and intentional communities are certainly examples, but often still very much at the margins. My...
2025-11-0246 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierThe Future Requires a Politics of RelationalityAt a time when the superstructures of modern civilization seem terminally messed up, the authors of 'Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human' argue that we must start a new conversation about the nature of being and modern myths of the self. Anthropologist Arturo Escobar, cultural studies scholar Michal Osterweil, and biologist Kriti Sharma draw on a diversity of sources – evolutionary science, cultural studies, art and poetry, Indigenous practices, wisdom traditions, and more – to explain the deep interdependence of all living beings: a perspective can help us develop a new political economy and culture. More on the commons at w...
2025-11-0146 min
Revolution.Social“Think Like a Commoner" Author David Bollier on the Commons & Why Open Platforms Aren't EnoughWhen a community wants to organize itself, it might decide between private ownership and state control. David Bollier has spent decades arguing that that’s a false binary, and that there is a better way: The commons.
"The commons is as old as humanity," David says. "It's kind of the default setting for coordination and governance. It's just in the past 200 years or so, we've tricked ourselves into thinking that we're isolated individuals and that the social context and the Earth is irrelevant."
Today on Revolution.Social, David and Rabble talk about why a platform being “open” isn’t enough t...
2025-10-0957 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierChris Smaje's Vision of a Post-Collapse Eco-Localism that WorksWhat might the world look like if capitalist growth and carbon emissions continue, and modern civilization collapses? Chris Smaje, a small farmer and writer in England, extrapolates from existing trends to sketch a vision of post-capitalist social economies. His new book, 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft,' envisions a world that is largely rural, decentralized, and grounded in local ecosystems and self-reliance. The book is neither a doomer nor survivalist tract, but rather an intelligent, speculative inquiry into models of collective organization, bottom-up governance, and ethical belief that will shape "local livelihood communities."
2025-10-0144 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierIsabel Carlisle, Bioregioning as a Response to 'Gaia on the Move'As climate change and other crises makes the economy and everyday life more precarious, innovative forms of bioregional action are needed to respond to 'Gaia on the move," says Isabel Carlisle, founder and director of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) in Devon, England. Carlisle describes the importance of building local ecological expertise, participation, and institutions to build community resilience in the years ahead, especially because centralized nation-states will not be able to do the job. The BLC is part of a growing worldwide interest in 'bioregioning' -- activism, projects, and philosophical shifts to build a new type of socio-ecological economy...
2025-09-0153 min
Writer's VoiceDavid Bollier on Why The Commons Could Save UsWriter’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary This week on Writer’s Voice, we speak with David Bollier about the newly updated edition of his influential book Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. Bollier argues that commons are neither relics of the past … Continue reading David Bollier on Why The Commons Could Save Us →
2025-08-1156 minWriter's Voice with Francesca RheannonDavid Bollier on Why The Commons Could Save Us
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Episode Summary
This week on Writer’s Voice, we speak with David Bollier about the newly updated edition of his influential book Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. Bollier argues that commons are neither relics of the past nor utopian fantasies—they are living, adaptive systems that help people meet needs through cooperation rather than competition.
“A commons is a living collective social organism for getting stuff done.” — David Bollier
We discuss why the comm...
2025-08-1156 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierRabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network Protocols Enable Digital Commons & Open MarrketsEvan Henshaw-Plath, better known as Rabble, is a pioneering programmer for social media platforms and decentralized technologies. Here, Rabble explains how network protocols are critical infrastructure for enabling -- or impeding -- commons and open markets, not to mention privacy, free speech, and community control. Their ambition is a future in which everyone has "access to authentic, private online communities built on care, connection, and sustainable relationships.” [More on commons at www.Bollier.org.]
2025-08-0157 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierGustavo Salas of Cecosesola: Prioritizing Commoning in a World of Capitalist MarketsGustavo Salas describes the remarkable culture of commoning at Cecosesola, a federation of 30 rural and urban cooperatives in Venezuela that serves hundreds of thousands of people with fresh produce, healthcare, funerary services, and many other goods and services. Cecosesola's priority is to create spaces of trust, togetherness, and self-improvement for its 1,300 associates while meeting the everyday needs of low-income families. Market prices and norms are secondary. For its work in escaping the transactional, capitalist-driven mindset and pioneering forms of provisioning that are fair, personally enriching, and much more affordable, Cecosesola won the Right Livelihood Award in 2022.
2025-07-0132 min
Design Economics Podcast with Vinny TafuroEP 1.6 Thaddeus Squire: Fiscal Sponsorship as Management CommonsJoin host Vinny Tafuro and guest Thaddeus Squire, Chief Commons Steward at Social Impact Commons, for a conversation about fiscal sponsorship in the social sector. Thaddeus has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit management field, and today’s conversation focuses on the evolution of fiscal sponsorship. Thaddeus and his organization have coined the term “management commons” to better illustrate the nuance and breadth of what fiscal sponsorship can do beyond the transactional.Guest BioThaddeus Squire, Chief Commons Steward at Social Impact Commons, has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit management field...
2025-06-0657 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary AgricultureJack Kloppenburg has been a leading figure in the fight to protect seed-sharing commons over the past forty years. It's a struggle that began in the 1980s as large ag-biotech companies have sought to make seeds privately owned and proprietary using all sorts of legal, technological, and market restrictions. Kloppenburg has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison since 1985 and a founder of the Open Source Seed Initiative. OSSI leads a movement of farmers, breeders, gardeners, and small seed companies dedicated to building a culture of openly shareable seeds and breeding innovation.
2025-06-0145 min
Team HumanDavid Bollier: The Commons Are Not a TragedyPlaying for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the CommonsProgram at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app...
2025-05-211h 07
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierTom Llewellyn on the Many, Innovative Spheres of Organized SharingTom Llewellyn, Executive Director of Shareable, describes the countless varieties of organized sharing that it supports through its journalism, organizing, and partnerships. In recent years, Shareable has helped amplify the work of mutual aid networks, expand the Libraries of Things concept, championed new forms of urban commoning, and develop new infrastructures of sharing. Its work on creative, bottom-up collaborations also showcases dozens of vanguard ideas, such as peer-to-peer lending, DIY bike lanes in cities, emergency battery networks for neighborhoods, and "Permablitz" conversions of suburban backyards into micro-farms for vegetables.
2025-05-0137 min
Reclaiming PedagogiesE26 - Pirate Care as a Revolutionary Act: Valeria Graziano & Tomislav Medak (FRONTIERS OF COMMONING, hosted by David Bollier)Pirate Care is a term used to describe creative, public acts that challenge the "organized abandonment" of people in need. In the tradition of civil disobedience, pirate care activists intervene to show compassion and social solidarity for ordinary people. Pirate Care also highlights how the state, markets, or patriarchal families have politicized particular types of care by declaring them unpatriotic, a threat to business revenues, or unacceptably kind to people of the "wrong" citizenship, race, or gender identity. In a new book, 'Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity' (Pluto Press), Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak explain the varieties...
2025-04-1843 min
Reclaiming PedagogiesE25 - Commoning within Arts Collectives (FRONTIERS OF COMMONING, hosted by David Bollier)What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art?This episode of FRONTIERS OF COMMONING, hosted by David Bollier, hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices. The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" for political reasons); Papaya Kuir, a lesbo-transfeminist collective for Latin American migrants in the Netherlands (with Mexican-born Alejandra Maria Ortiz); and Indonesian artists who practice 'nongkrong' (Angga Cipta, aka "ACip," and MG Pringgotono, founder of S...
2025-04-1753 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierCommoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? This episode hears from artists' collectives in three countries to learn how they organize their commoning practices. The three collectives are the "-" (dash) collective in Iran (with an artist who goes by the pseudonym "M" for political reasons); Papaya Kuir, a lesbo-transfeminist collective for Latin American migrants in the Netherlands (with Mexican-born Alejandra Maria Ortiz); and Indonesian artists who practice 'nongkrong' (Angga Cipta, aka "ACip," on left in photo, and MG Pringgotono, founder of Serrum and Gudskul, on right). More...
2025-04-0153 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDavid Bollier on His New, Updated Edition of 'Think Like a Commoner'Radio Kingston host and executive director Jimmy Buff interviews David Bollier about his new, updated and revised edition of 'Think Like a Commoner,' originally published in 2014. This popular introduction now includes material on the commons as a living, relational organism, bioregionalism and the relocalization of economies, governance of digital commons, legal hacks to support commons, and new ways for state power to facilitate commoning. More about the book at https://www.thinklikeacommoner.com. More on Bollier and the commons at https://www.Bollier.org.
2025-03-0139 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierFuture Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular GenresAnthropologist Amber Huff, coordinator of the Centre for Future Natures at the University of Sussex in England, explains how popular genres like comic books, zines, social media, podcasts, and video, among others, can illuminate contemporary commons, enclosures, and the disorienting crises of capitalist modernity. What does this moment of crisis and collapse feel like, and how can subjective experiences and emotions be organized to create commons and new visions of the future?
2025-02-0136 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierPirate Care as a Revolutionary Act: Valeria Graziano & Tomislav MedakPirate Care is a term used to describe creative, public acts that challenge the "organized abandonment" of people in need. In the tradition of civil disobedience, pirate care activists intervene to show compassion and social solidarity for ordinary people. Pirate Care also highlights how the state, markets, or patriarchal families have politicized particular types of care by declaring them unpatriotic, a threat to business revenues, or unacceptably kind to people of the "wrong" citizenship, race, or gender identity. In their new book, 'Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity' (Pluto Press), activists Valeria Graziano (Italy; England) and Tomislav Medak...
2025-01-0143 min
Forward Radio podcastsElection Connection | Author David Bollier on The Commons | 12-23-24David Bollier, author, co-author and co-editor of 12 books on new, more earth- and human-aligned paradigms, presents his views of our current economic, political and social systems -- why they are failing us, and how a parallel system of self-growing communities he calls "the Commons" or "the Commonsverse" is popping up in different parts of the world to rekindle a sense of agency, belonging and self governing.
2024-12-2355 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierYuria Celidwen on Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions to Modern ChallengesYuria Celidwen, an Indigenous researcher in the Department of Psychology at University of California Berkeley, discusses how contemplative practices in Indigenous traditions can expand mindfulness, heartfulness, compassion, and planetary flourishing. Her new book, 'Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Well-Being,' argues that relationality lies at the heart of Indigenous cultures, as seen in seven key principles. Celidwen explains that happiness is "only possible in community, when we cultivate our relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and to our living Earth." Learning to listen mindfully to life is an essential process in healing the Earth, the alienation of...
2024-12-0149 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierZoe Gilbertson on Bioregional Fibersheds & New Fashion CommonsZoe Gilbertson is a British fashion ecologist who is re-imagining the fashion industry from the ground up, literally. In an effort to curb the ecological harms of fast fashion, global supply chains, and relentless consumption of clothes, Gilbertson is figuring how fiber crops like hemp and flax could be grown bioregionally to produce textiles and, in the process, catalyze localized garment design, production, and distribution as well as bioregional clothing cultures. This vision is part of a larger, expanding movement of fashion innovators who are incubating "seed to closet" initiatives, traditional clothing crafts, mending and upcycling projects, and other types...
2024-11-0144 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierStefan Gruber's Global Portfolio of Urban CommonsStefan Gruber, a Carnegie Mellon University professor of architecture and urbanism, sees cities as a prime site of struggle between capitalism and commons, and therefore an important incubator of just, regenerative, self-determined communities that move beyond the market/state paradigm. The traveling international exhibit, 'An Atlas of Commoning,' which he helped curate, and his course on 'Commoning in the City', study how participatory action, community design, and creative commons/public partnerships are reinventing urban life. More on the commons at www.Bollier.org.
2024-10-0142 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierBrandon Letsinger on Cascadia and Bioregional ActivismBrandon Letsinger, a Seattle organizer and cofounding director of the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, discusses the history of bioregional activism in Cascadia and current challenges and strategies. Cascadia consists of three watersheds in the Pacific Northwest extending from British Columbia to northern California. For more than 40 years, Cascadia activists have been in the vanguard of a larger, now resurgent global movement. Its general goals are to reinvent markets, cultures and identities in ways that foster bioregional self-reliance and responsible stewardship of watersheds, energy, agriculture, wildlife, and other living systems.
2024-09-0153 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierBram Büscher: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide through Convivial ConservationBram Büscher, an activist-scholar in sociology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, has launched an ambitious international project to invent noncapitalist forms of land conservation. He calls it "convivial conservation." Instead of locking up land as wilderness or using it to make money through ecotourism and genetic patents, "convivial conservation" is about enabling humans to become integral, respectful co-creators with nature. The new Convivial Conservation Centre, with staff in five countries and many allies worldwide, champions constructive, symbiotic human relationships with local ecosystems and the bridging of the deep divide separating humans from nature. More on commons: www.Bollier.o...
2024-08-0151 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierSafouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient TransformationSafouan Azouzi, a Tunisian scholar of the commons and participatory social design, discusses how cultural traditions in desert oases hold important socio-ecological lessons for the world. For the Global South, long victimized by colonialism and capitalist extraction, oases culture embodies an eco-friendly, alternative vision of development. For the industrial West, oases reveals the importance of commoning in building stable, regenerative economies in sync with ecosystem needs. More on the commons at www.Bollier.org. A PDF transcript of Episode #52 can be found here: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Safouan_Azouzi_Ep._52_transcript.doc.pdf
2024-07-0149 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierCamila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian ConstitutionalismChilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal, representative systems because oligarchs end up capturing state governance and law. Ordinary people rarely have their own plebeian institutions to express their interests and curb the abuses of the elite. Drawing on ancient Greek and Roman history and four modern political philosophers, Professor Vergara makes an audacious case for constitutionally ordained plebeian institutions such as citizen assemblies through which citizens could propose and veto legislation and political appointees, among other powers. More on the commons: https://www.bollier.org.
2024-06-0153 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierCooking Sections Serves Up Art, Eco-Activism & Local FoodThe artistic duo known as Cooking Sections -- Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the Royal College of Art in London -- use their virtuoso visual, performance, and installation artworks to jolt people into new understanding of local ecosystems, capitalism, and food. Their work, shown at prestigious venues around the world to great acclaim, dramatizes how modern diets are products of "a globally financialized landscape," ranging from artificially colored farmed salmon to eco-destroying monoculture crops. But Cooking Sections also uses its art to work closely with farmers, restaurants, schools, politicians, and citizens to reinvent local foodways through commoning. (P...
2024-05-0147 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierNathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the InternetTo counter the "implicit feudalism" that is the norm on the Internet, activist-scholar Nathan Schneider explains the potential of democratic governance in online life and its importance to "real world" democracy. A professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Schneider argues that "online spaces could be sites of creative, radical and democratic renaissance." But this will require progressive activists to heed the lessons of various social and decolonial movements throughout history, and to find the resolve to use the technologies in creative ways.
2024-04-0150 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierWIll Ruddick on 'Commitment Pooling' to Build Economic CommonsWill Ruddick, development economist and founder of Grassroots Economics, has spent the past 16 years in Kenya developing innovative "community inclusion currencies" for dozens of poorer communities. By combining ancient mutual aid practices with credit vouchers (circulating as a kind of money) and digital ledger technologies (to expand the scale of exchange), people are able to develop their own economic commons to meet everyday needs. Ruddick credits the success of the currencies to "commitment pooling" protocols that have long been used by Indigenous and traditional communities. Blog post: https://www.bollier.org/blog/will-ruddick-commitment-pooling-build-economic-commons
2024-03-0152 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierKathryn Milun: Sharing the Sun's Energy through Solar CommonsKathryn Milun, a community-engaged scholar, writer, and energy democracy advocate at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, has spent the past 15 years developing the innovative Solar Commons model. This powerful prototype uses decentralized solar arrays to generate steady revenue streams to build community wealth. Through partnership agreements, four Solar Commons trusts are now channeling funds to low-income neighborhoods, rural communities, regenerative farming, and Native American food sovereignty. More about Solar Commons: www.solarcommons.org More about commons: www.Bollier.org.
2024-02-0142 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann's Project to Reimagine Economics EducationAppalled by the dismal state of economics education for young people, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, an international secondary school educator, has launched an open, collaborative project to develop a comprehensive Regenerative Economics syllabus. Instead of framing "the economy" as a growth-obsessed machine standing apart from society and nature, Brandsberg-Engelmann showcases alternative economic approaches such as 'Doughnut Economics,' the circular economy, and feminist critiques of care, as well as value-creating sectors like households and commons. The project has attracted strong international attention and will likely debut in September 2024. (More at www.regenerativeeconomics.earth.)
2024-01-0140 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAaron Perzanowski on Bottom-up Creativity & the Right to RepairProfessor Aaron Perzanowski of the University of Michigan Law School explains how many artistic communities flourish as commons, without copyright protections that privilege private ownership and marketization. Tattoo artists, fashion designers, chefs, and stand-up comedians are among the communities that don't strictly own their primary creative works. This ethic of bottom-up collaboration and sharing also flourishes in many repair commons, where resourceful people have created pools of shared knowledge and peer-support to fix broken products. Corporate manufacturers are trying to suppress the "right to repair" movement, but repair-commoners are making significant gains these days.
2023-12-0151 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierShane O'Donnell: The Breakthrough Insulin Device Developed by CommonersShane O'Donnell, a sociologist and researcher, has been at the forefront of the "device activism" and #WeAreNotWaiting movement, a globe-spanning community of techies and people living with diabetes who have pioneered patient-led innovations in medical devices and healthcare. Outflanking a stodgy, risk-averse medical device industry, the movement has relied on commoning to develop the Tidepool Loop device, the first open source, interoperable, and automatic insulin-delivery system, and Nightscout, a collectively managed data system for treating diabetes more effectively.
2023-11-0141 min
Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin ZeeseThe Commons Is An Antidote To The Crisis Of CapitalismBuilding on a recent interview with climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann where he talked about the severity of the climate crisis and the urgent necessity of action, Clearing the FOG speaks with David Bollier of the Schumacher Center for a New Economy about the paradigm-shifting concept of The Commons. Bollier travels around the world, particularly to European and Global South countries where The Commons is part of everyday public discourse and activities to learn about ways that people are creating structures to meet their needs outside of the market and the demand for growth. For more information, visit PopularResistance...
2023-10-241h 00
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierMihnea Tanasescu on the Need for 'Ecocene Politics'The best term for this era of geological history is not the Anthropocene, says Mihnea Tănăsescu, a research professor at the University of Mons in Belgium, but the Ecocene. "The increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life” requires us to shed our anthropocentric notions, and recognize our deep, entangled relationships with nature and other living beings. In this interview, Tănăsescu talks about his book 'Ecocene Politics' and explains what it means to unlearn the modern mindset and cultivate a relational ethics of reciprocity, cooperation, and care for living beings. We must learn to renovate our le...
2023-10-0143 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierHannes Gerhardt: Compeerism as a Path from Capital to CommonsHannes Gerhardt, a professor of geography at the University of West Georgia (US), talks about his new book, 'From Capital to Commons: Exploring the Promise of a World Beyond Capitalism', especially as it applies to digital technology and online life. While Big Tech monopolies have crushed the hopeful experimentation that once prevailed in Internet culture, Gerhardt argues that commoning and technology might engineer a transition away from capitalism through "compeerism," a lens that highlights the counter-capitalist possibilities. More on the commons: http://www.Bollier.org. Downloadable PDF transcript of this episode: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Hannes_Gerhardt...
2023-09-0143 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierNatasha Hulst: The Campaign for an Amsterdam Food ParkNatasha Hulst, Director of the European Land Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, describes a spirited campaign by commoners to build an urban farm and green space, Voedselpark, or Food Park, on the edge of Amsterdam. While climate change and global economics argue for relocalizing agriculture, city officials and businesses are determined to build a big-box distribution center on the unspoiled land. The question at hand: Will a famously progressive city double-down on capitalist growth and consumerism as its vision for the future, or can it embrace a modest experiment in climate-friendly land use and commoning?
2023-08-0144 min
Human Energy PodcastScience of the Noosphere – The Global Commons – David Bollier and John ArquillaIn an earlier Science of the Noosphere conversation with John Arquilla that was focused on an article titled “Whose Story Wins: Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information-Age Statecraft”, we touched on the subject of the global commons. The term “global commons” comes up 153 times in the Noosphere and Noopolitik article, so we thought another conversation focused exclusively on the topic of the global commons might be an important thing to do.So we sought out one of the world’s foremost experts on commons issues, David Bollier, who describes himself as spending “a lot of time exploring th...
2023-07-251h 06
New Kinship#30 - Imagining the Commons with Brendan JohnsonIf God calls us to seek the common good of our communities—what does that mean in real life? The commons, a shared community place or resource, is a critical idea in this conversation. Even better: it’s not just an idea; it’s been practiced around the globe in many times and places. David Frank talks with friend and fellow housemate Brendan Johnson about the ways we could start thinking differently—really differently—about our public, private, and shared resources.Our goal is to inspire you to imagine new ways of flourishing and to open the conver...
2023-07-051h 05New Kinship#30 - Imagining the Commons with Brendan JohnsonIf God calls us to seek the common good of our communities—what does that mean in real life? The commons, a shared community place or resource, is a critical idea in this conversation. Even better: it’s not just an idea; it’s been practiced around the globe in many times and places. David Frank talks with friend and fellow housemate Brendan Johnson about the ways we could start thinking differently—really differently—about our public, private, and shared resources.Our goal is to inspire you to imagine new ways of flourishing and to open the conver...
2023-07-051h 05
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierThomas Linzey on Nature's Rights and Self-Owning LandThomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, has been at the forefront of ambitious campaigns to create novel legal doctrines for "community rights," "the rights of nature," and more recently, "self-owning land." The primary goal is to expand democratic self-determination, especially at the local level, and provide stronger legal protections for land, water, animals, and other elements of living ecosystems. More on the commons at Bollier.org. Downloadable PDF transcript: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Thomas_Linzey_transcript_Episode_40.pdf
2023-07-0151 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAlnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy on Post-Capitalist PhilanthropyLong-time activist Alnoor Ladha and former program officer Lynn Murphy explain why so many philanthropies aren't really interested in system change. In their book 'Post Capitalist Philanthropy', they explain how large foundations are more intent on reproducing capitalist modernity and its norms than in moving beyond the growth economy. The real challenge for philanthrophy, say Ladha and Murphy, is to help the world move to a post-capitalist economy and culture that overcomes the cultural traumas of Western conquest and colonality. More on the commons at www.Bollier.org. Downloadable PDF transcript: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Ladha__Murphy...
2023-06-0850 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierLeah Penniman on 'Black Earth Wisdom'Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm in the Hudson Valley, New York, showcases the history of African-American farming and Indigenous land traditions in her new book 'Black Earth Wisdom' in which sixteen Black elders of various backgrounds discuss the intertwined fate of the earth and our spiritual lives. The book brings attention to often-neglected protectors of the Earth such as enslaved herbalists, seeds-savers, scientist-mystics like George Washington Carter, artists, musicians, poets, and earth-centered religious traditions. More about the commons: www.Bollier.org. PDF transcript of this interview: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Leah_Penniman_transcript_Episode_38.pdf
2023-05-0152 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierChristian Iaione & Sheila Foster on Urban Commoning InitiativesHow might the commons paradigm be applied to cities in a more focused, effective way? Professors Sheila R. Foster of Georgetown University and Christian Iaione of Luiss Carli University in Rome, share their insights into this topic after years of study and collaborative experimentation. Their new book, 'Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions Toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities,' describes lessons from Elinor Ostrom's research, the six distinct phases of the "co-cities protocol," and the work of the interdisciplinary research clinic LabGov, among other things. More about the commons at Bollier.org. A PDF transcript of this episode can be found here: https...
2023-04-0142 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDorn Cox: When Open Source Meets Regenerative AgricultureDorn Cox is a New Hampshire family farmer who has long been in the vanguard of improving regenerative agriculture with open source technologies. He sees participatory science and knowledge commons as powerful tools for improving crop yields, soil health, and ecosystem resilience, especially in the face of climate change. Here, Cox talks about his new book 'The Great Regeneration' on these themes, and the encouraging vistas of possibility that open source hardware, data analytics, knowledge-sharing and localism are opening up. [PDF of transcript: https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Dorn_Cox_Episode_36_transcript.pdf More on the Commons: https...
2023-03-0147 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierBinna Choi: Curating Art through CommoningAs Director of the Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Binna Choi is in the vanguard of exploring how commoning can be used to make art and curate exhibitions. Choi and her colleagues in Utrecht, Netherlands, see commoning as an organizing principle for how artists can produce art collaboratively, in service to the community. As the Institute puts it, "Art is an imaginative way of doing and being which connects, heals, opens, and moves people into new social visions." PDF transcript available at https://www.bollier.org/files/misc-file-upload/files/Binna_Choi_Episode_35_transcript.pdf. More on commons: https...
2023-02-0131 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJohn Thackara on Designing for LifeJohn Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world. A Brit with extensive academic and journalistic background in design, Thackara is an independent writer, activist and thinker who is probing the idea of "designing for life." For him, this means elevating the many brave local projects that are pioneering new eco-friendly, socially constructive ways of living while critiquing corporate greenwashing ploys like "net-zero" and "sustainability reporting," and the financialization of nature.
2023-01-0145 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJoe Brewer's Bold Quest to Restore a BioregionJoe Brewer, an American activist with extensive background in earth sciences, embarked on a journey to heal the Earth, and ended up in Barichara, Colombia, helping to catalyze a bold effort to restore an arid tropical forest in the northern Andes. Here, Brewer describes his formal training in ecological sciences and complex systems; the techniques and tactics he has used in Barichara, and his expanding ambitions to help bioregions internationally to organize their own similar efforts. He also talks about his recent book, 'The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth,' and the group he founded, Earth Regenerators. Episode transcript: https...
2022-12-011h 00
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDavid Sloan Wilson: What Evolutionary Science Says about Prosocial GroupsDavid Sloan Wilson is a renowned evolutionary biologist with pathbreaking insights into the role of cooperation in the evolution of life. A professor emeritus at State University of New York, Binghamton, Wilson has investigated how natural selection occurs among groups and even ecosystems, and not only at the level of genes and individuals. In this interview, he explains how prosocial behaviors tend to give groups evolutionary advantages: "Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary." [ Printable transcript: https://www.bollier.org/transcripts-frontiers-commoning ]
2022-11-0146 min
Chaos Computer Club - archive feedGemeinsamkeiten systematisch erschließen: Muster des Commoning (bub2022)Wie finden wir die Gemeinsamkeiten von GNU/Linux und einer Solidarischen Landwirtschaft? Die jüngst verstorbene und die dem Bits- und Bäume stark verbundene Commons-Forscherin Silke Helfrich, würde sagen: Indem wir die dahinterstehenden Muster betrachten. Ein reich bebilderter Vortrag mit Workshop zu Silkes Lebenswerk.
,,Commons als ein soziales Muster zu beschreiben – als »Commoning« – unterscheidet sich von jenen Denkansätzen, in denen es vorwiegend um (Gemein-)Güter und deren Verwaltung geht. Commoning ist eine Notwendigkeit, eine Haltung und eine Ethik, und es stiftet Zufriedenheit. Commoning verkörpert also eine Art zu sein, deren Keimzelle tief in uns Menschen angelegt ist...
2022-10-0227 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierGreg Watson on Buckminster Fuller, the World Grid and World GameDrawing upon the pioneering work of Buckminster Fuller, Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, explains his work promoting a "World Grid" -- a global infrastructure that would integrate electricity production and distribution into a single global network of networks. A free flow of electricity across national boundaries would solve the intermittency problems of renewable energy (e.g., no solar power at night; no wind power on calm days), reduce carbon emissions, and increase system resilience and affordability. Watson also discusses the enduring relevance of Buckminster Fuller on contemporary problems, most...
2022-10-0146 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierKonda Mason on Land, Race, Money & SpiritBIPOC farmers -- many afflicted by the persistent legacy of slavery, racism, and land theft -- generally do not have an easy path forward. To help inaugurate a different history, Jubilee Justice, a small Louisiana organization, is developing an ambitious array of commons-oriented projects. As cofounder and president Konda Mason explains, these strategies include community land trusts as a way to secure farmland in perpetuity; cooperatives that help protect farmers from market exploitation and discriminatory practices; an open-source-style of climate-friendly agronomy known as the System of Rice Intensification; and the hosting of "transformational learning journeys" to help White and BIPOC...
2022-09-0143 min
In Common101: Commoning with David BollierIn this episode, Michael and Hita speak with David Bollier. David is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. In 2010, David co-founded the Commons Strategies Group, a consulting project that works to promote the commons internationally. More recently, he became the Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
David has authored and co-authored many books, and we focus in particular on his book Free, Fair, and Alive...
2022-08-011h 11
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierFarid Rakun & ruangrupa Reinvent Artistic Curation at documenta 15When the Indonesian artists collective ruangrupa was selected to curate the prestigious international art exhibition Documenta, held every five years in Germany, the group made a bold choice: to prototype a new type of commons-oriented political economy for art-making. In this episode, Ruangrupa member Farid Rakun explains how the exhibition not only showcases many first-rate artists from marginalized countries. Ruangrupa's curation also became a massive experiment in artistic commoning, with democratic assemblies of artists deciding how the exhibit would be organized, funds allocated, and noncapitalist infrastructures of social solidarity built. (Photo credit: Jin Panji/Gudskul, 2019)
2022-08-0139 min
Oya im OhrCommons und Sein.Silke Helfrich (1967–2021) war die weltweit bedeutendste Commons-Forscherin und für Oya eine Vordenkerin wie auch eine treue Wegbegleiterin. Gemeinsam mit David Bollier fragte sie sich, durch welchen Rahmen wir die Welt betrachten und wie dieser den Blick für das Gemeinschaffen verstellt.
Von Silke Helfrich und David Bollier, gelesen von Luisa Kleine, erschienen in Oya, Ausgabe #55/2019
2022-07-0214 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierGuy Standing: How Blue Commons Can Transform the Economy of the SeaGuy Standing, an economist and scholar of the commons at SOAS University of London, talks about his new book, 'The Blue Commons: Transforming the Economy of the Sea'. He argues that overfishing and destructive deepsea mining are predictable results of 'rentier capitalism', the market/state system that privileges expansive property rights, financialization, and industrialized fishing practices. To help restore marine ecosystems and coastal fishing communities, Standing proposes a detailed 'Blue Commons' agenda that relies on commoning, commons-based legal regimes, and stakeholder trusts.
2022-07-0150 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierStephan Harding on Gaia Alchemy & the Animate EarthDr. Stephan Harding, a cofounder of Schumacher College (England) and senior lecturer in holistic science, is a pioneering scientist focused on earth sciences, deep ecology, and the theory of Gaia. His work stands on the shoulders of his friend and colleague James Lovelock, the originator of Gaia theory, and microbiologist Lynn Margulis, who bravely championed the idea of symbiosis as a driving force in evolution. In his new book, 'Gaia Alchemy: The Reuniting of Science, Psyche, and Soul,' Harding explores how Gaia manifests itself in human consciousness, feelings, and soul, and how Jungian depth psychology and the history of...
2022-05-3150 min
The Collaborative Farming PodcastCommons Author & Podcaster, David BollierAuthor, academic, and podcaster David Bollier! David works with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and has studied and written extensively on commoning for the last two decades. For those who aren’t familiar with that word, commoning is simply the act of managing shared resources like land or information. We talk about how he came to study the commons as an alternative for change after being disillusioned with the political system, can’t say it’s gotten any better, starting from where you are, however small, and examples of commoning in our everyday life that we simpl...
2022-05-2649 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAlanna Irving of Open Collective: Distributed Leadership & Infrastructures for CommoningIt takes a lot of hard work to get small-scale commons started, especially with complications of managing money, budgets, and tax and legal compliance. These challenges have gotten easier since the rise of Open Collective, a nonprofit platform that acts a kind of commons-enabling infrastructure. In this episode, Alanna Irving, Chief Operating Officer of Open Collective, explains the challenge of "hacking organizational structures with our values," the benefits of distributed leadership, and the confidence that comes from managing risk together.
2022-05-0158 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 108: The Commons + The Future: A Conversation w/ David BollierIn this conversation, Philip spends time with scholar and commons activist David Bollier. They discuss his latest book The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking and what are the ways activist and organizer can continue to strengthen the commons as an alternative to late stage extractive capitalism.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community and The Land – Edited by Norman Wirzba https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/674983/the-essential-agrarian-reader-by-norman-wirzba/
David’...
2022-04-281h 03
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierSam Moore of The Radical Open Access CollectiveOpen access is a term used to describe academic books, journals, and other research that can be freely copied and shared rather than tightly controlled by large commercial publishers as expensive, proprietary product. Over the past 20 years, this vision has fallen far short of its original ambitions, however, as large publishers have developed new regimes to control the circulation of scientific and scholarly knowledge and charge dearly for it. Since 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective has been championing experimental, noncommercial and commons-based alternatives. In this interview, Sam Moore, an organizer of the Collective, takes stock of the state of open...
2022-04-0140 min
This Is What Democracy Looks Like#8: The Commons with David BollierWe are joined by David Bollier, one of the world's leading theorists and evangelists for the idea of the “commons” — a new (old) paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He pursues this work as Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and as cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group, an international advocacy project. His classic book on the topic is Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. And his most recent book is The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking, inspired by the format and spirit of The...
2022-03-2233 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierRuth Catlow of Furtherfield: Art, Play and the Imagining of New WorldsRuth Catlow is an artist, curator, and co-leader of Furtherfield, a London-based arts collective that has been convening playful, participatory art projects for more than 25 years. The group's artistic experiments -- deeply rooted in open source technologies and philosophies -- use digital platforms and its green space and gallery in Finsbury Park to invite people to imagine new shared futures. The aim, in Furtherfield's words, is to "disrupt and democratize existing hegemonies" and "re-landscape the terrain."
2022-03-0147 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierSara Arnold & Sandra Niessen on Moving Toward Defashion and DegrowthBritish activist Sara Arnold and Dutch fashion scholar/activist Sandra Niessen explain their vision for "a radical defashion future" driven by degrowth, decolonization, and commoning. As two leaders of Fashion Act Now, they are part of a growing network of dissident fashionistas trying to make the global clothing industry more ecologically responsible, relocalized, and responsive to climate change. They argue that the fashion industry needs a serious economic and cultural makeover to curb its colossal waste and energy use, and allow a rich pluriverse of clothing cultures to flourish.
2022-02-0153 min
Accidental GodsCommunities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles CommonsHow can we find joy in life again? How can we create beautiful things to wear that allow us to be the best of ourselves - and build community while we do it? Alice Holloway is co-founder of London Urban Textiles Commons, and she's committed to finding the answers. Join us for an inspiring, sparky exploration of how our future can be different. Alice Holloway has a degree in jewellery making from Central St Martin's and a Masters in Design for the Cultural Commons from the London Metropolitan University. She is founder of the Little Black Pants Clu...
2022-01-121h 11
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJose Luis Vivero Pol: Treating Food as Commons, Not CommoditesWhy is there so much hunger in the world today when the global food system produces, and wastes, amazing quantities of food? Jose Luis Vivero Pol, an anti-hunger activist and PhD Research Fellow at the Universite catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, points to our treatment of food as commodities, as traded in heavily subsidized markets dominated by large corporations. In this podcast, Vivero explains how growing and distributing food through commons (instead of globally consolidated, extractivist markets) can help make food far more accessible, affordable, and nutritious for everyone.
2022-01-0149 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDavid Cayley on Why Ivan Illich Still MattersDavid Cayley has written a magisterial synthesis and interpretation of his late friend and colleague, Ivan Illich (1926-2002), 'Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey', which reveals the ongoing relevance of Illich's searing social critiques. Illich was a radical Christian, cultural historian and itinerant scholar who soared to international fame in the 1970s with such books as 'Medical Nemesis,' 'Deschooling Society' and 'Tools for Conviviality,' which criticized professional institutions for diminishing our humanity. Illich helped lay the intellectual foundations for the world of commoning by validating the power of “vernacular domains” in which we self-organize ourselves – the informal spaces where we per...
2021-12-0147 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierShaun Chamberlin on David Fleming's Vision of Post-Capitalist LifeWhen he died in 2012, David Fleming -- a polymath thinker among the earliest to address Peak Oil -- left behind an unusual book manuscript about climate change, the fragility of capitalism, and the likely nature of our post-capitalist future. Fortunately, Shaun Chamberlin, a British author and activist who was Fleming's associate, shepherded the manuscript to publication as 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It' and a companion volume, 'Surviving the Future.' In this podcast, Chamberlin reflects on Fleming's brilliant, visionary writings and his own ongoing activism and initiatives.
2021-11-0155 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierPeter Barnes Makes the Case for 'Universal Property'Can property law be used to reclaim our common wealth and transform capitalism in the process? In his new book 'Ours', Peter Barnes, a socially minded entrepreneur and commoner, proposes inventing a new class of property rights -- "universal property" -- to protect land, watersheds and the atmosphere as well as co-inherited civic infrastructures such as our financial and communications systems. The point is to stop investors from privatizing the benefits of this wealth by instead instituting trusts (and other forms) to manage it as universal property. These alternatives can both protect common assets and generate reliable revenue streams shared...
2021-10-0146 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierCaroline Shenaz Hossein on 'Black Banker Ladies' and the Social EconomyAmong millions of Black women in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, ROSCAs, or 'rotating savings and credit associations', are trusted alternatives to racialized, exclusionary systems of formal banking. The self-organized, informal pooling of money among friends and neighbors offer a way to help people amass the money to buy a used car, pay for school, and meet other household expenses. Professor Hossein of the University of Toronto at Scarborough, in Ontario, Canada, discusses the resourcefulness and resilience of the Black social economy despite attacks by many state authorities and mainstream banks.
2021-09-0148 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierTim Jackson & the Quest for Post GrowthEcological economist Tim Jackson has spent over three decades investigating what a post-growth economy might look like and how to pursue it. His 2009 book 'Prosperity without Growth' became a landmark exploration of this topic. Now, more than a decade later, Jackson’s thinking has evolved in some new and unexpected ways. His new book, 'Post Growth: Life After Capitalism', urges economics to expand its narrow, hyper-rational frameworks, and draw on insights from the worlds of art, culture, philosophy, storytelling, and the human quest for meaning.
2021-08-0139 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJeremy Lent: Wisdom Traditions, Science & the Search for MeaningJeremy Lent, author and self-described "integrator," has spent years exploring the "cognitive history of humanity" as expressed in diverse civilizations. Lent continues this investigation with a new book 'The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe," which can be succinctly summarized: "Our mainstream worldview has expired. What will replace it? A world of deep interconnectedness."
2021-07-0150 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierKate Raworth on Why Our Times Demand 'Doughnut Economics'Kate Raworth's 2017 book 'Doughnut Economics' has become an international phenomenon by debunking the many half-truths of standard economics and offering a new framework for dealing with 21st Century realities. Her reconceptualization of the economy as a doughnut accents two vital concerns that economics often ignores -- the importance of meeting everyone’s basic human needs (the inner ring of the doughnut) and the importance of staying within the planet's ecological limits (the outer ring). Economics should not focus on market and state alone, says Raworth, but also on households and commons, and the trust, reciprocity, and creativity that they engender.
2021-06-0154 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierPeter Linebaugh: What the History of Commoning RevealsProfessor Peter Linebaugh, the acclaimed historian of commons, discusses the social and political histories of English commoners caught up in their struggles with state power and early capitalists. He explains the importance of Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest; the criminalization of customary practices as early capitalism arose; the special relationship of women to the commons and therefore their persecution; and the role of commoning in struggles for political emancipation.
2021-05-0143 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierKatherine Gibson and the Community Economies Research NetworkWith an international network of scholars known as CERN – the Community Economies Research Network – Katherine Gibson, a professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia, has explored the possibilities of a post-capitalist future for more than thirty years. Community Economies scholars reject many premises of standard economics and instead shine a spotlight on actual, constructive nonmarket and local work unfolding everywhere – in care work, community life, cooperatives, gift economies, barter, online collaborations, vernacular culture, commoning, and many other generative forms of life.
2021-04-0139 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAndreas Weber on Aliveness and InterdependenceRejecting the standard neoDarwinist account of life as mechanical and objectifying, theoretical biologist and ecophilosopher Andreas Weber insists that science must study the subjective aliveness of organisms. While living beings certainly compete to survive, they also participate in symbiotic, relational webs of many other beings, each endowed with fierce creative agency. Weber argues that life itself amounts to a commons because living beings, working in distributed, bottom-up ways, are all struggling to co-evolve constructively with others and expand the fecundity of the whole system.
2021-03-0145 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJimmy Buff and the Radio Kingston CommonsJimmy Buff, Executive Director of WKNY Radio in Kingston, NY, explains how he and a team of local talent converted an oldies-format AM radio station into a vibrant community broadcaster. The station features the usual blocs of rock, pop, and classical (with slots for polka and German music, too!), but also voices from the LGBTQ world, seniors, people of color, feminists, local artists, mindfulness practitioners, environmentalists, and businesspeople -- all with a local perspective..
2021-02-0136 min
Ralph Nader Radio HourPower of the Commons/2020 HighlightsRalph welcomes back former Nader’s Raider, David Bollier to update us on his latest work protecting and appreciating what we possess together as a community, the Commons. Then, we take a look back at highlights from some of our best 2020 interviews, featuring Dr. Bandy Lee, Dr, Michael Olsterholm, Professor Adolph Reed, broadcaster Glen Ford, socialist Nathan Robinson, environmentalist, David Freeman, journalist, David Dayen, and activist Katey Fahey. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
2021-01-0257 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierAgrarian Trust, with Severine von Tscharner Fleming & Ian McSweeneySeverine von Tscharner Fleming is a young organic farmer who helped start Agrarian Trust, an organization supporting land access for the next generation of farmers. Ian McSweeney, the organizational director of Agrarian Trust, explains strategies for decommodifying land for farmers even as the pandemic drives up land prices. Also discussed: Greenhorns, a cultural network for young farmers; Farm Hack, a global design community for open source farm equipment; and Seaweed Commons, a network studying the stewardship of intertidal zones.
2021-01-0139 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDave Jacke on Ecological Design and AbundanceFor Dave Jacke, a designer of ecological landscapes and lead author of the classic book 'Edible Forest Gardens,' the key to how humanity will navigate its future on Earth lies with our culture and "inner landscapes," as refracted through our technologies. Paradoxically, the extreme underdevelopment of Western culture, psychosocially, is a reason for hope, he argues. If humanity truly were advanced while facing so many planetary challenges, "we’d be screwed." Fortunately, we have so much room to grow in self-awareness, and ecological design can help us learn to co-evolve abundant landscapes once again.
2020-12-0143 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierJanelle Orsi and the Art of the Legal HackJanelle Orsi, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, in Oakland, California, is an accomplished practitioner of creative legal hacks. She and her colleagues at the Law Center focus on ingenious ways to decommodify land to keep housing and farmland affordable; to empower peer governance and give people control over their lives; and to provide legal structures that help people acquire greater security by "surrendering into each other's arms." Orsi and the Law Center are at the forefront of the kinds of innovative lawyering needed to build a more just, eco-friendly, localized and humane world.
2020-11-0149 min
2020-10-0140 min
Revolution or BustEp457 Ralph Nader: We Own This Country! Why Do We Give Corporations All the Power? | What Is the Commons?Ralph Nader: We Own This Country! Why Do We Give Corporations All the Power? | What Is the Commons?
Howell Underground on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/HowellUnderground/videos
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Nader - Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/19/why-do-americans-give-away-so-much-control-corporations
https://www.breakingthroughpower.org/
David Bollier https://www.bollier.org/
The Commons, Short and Sweet http://www.bollier.org/commons-short-and-sweet
How to Make Protest Signs https://youtu.be...
2020-09-2021 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierMarcos García of Medialab-PradoMarcos García is Artistic Director of Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Spain -- an independent, city-funded 'commons laboratory' that facilitates bottom-up innovation on various tech platforms. As a commons incubator, Medialab-Prado actively facilitates the formation of new communities of experimental, collaborative practice in such diverse fields as citizen science, participatory budgeting, data visualization, open source software, Wikipedia entries, and book translations, among many others.
2020-09-0121 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierNeera SIngh, on Community Forests in IndiaProfessor Neera Singh, a geographer at the University of Toronto, has long studied forest commons in India as part of her research into conservation, “development,” and the governance of natural systems. One of her key findings is that the “affective labor” of commoners produces healthier, more resilient forests than corporate or bureaucratic state management. A key challenge is how to honor the power of affective stewardship in a world dominated by state and corporate power.
2020-08-0141 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierSociocracy for All, with Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-GonzalezDrawing on their worldwide work with schools, tech ventures, and other projects and organizations, Ted Rau (left) and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Cofounders of Sociocracy for All, explain how Sociocracy provides a fair, effective, commons-based system of deliberation and decisionmaking.
2020-07-0137 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierPaul Baines on the Great Lakes CommonsPaul Baines, Outreach and Education Coordinator of the Great Lakes Commons, fosters new attitudes and practices toward the Great Lakes in collaboration with other groups. Through crowdsourced maps, public celebrations, cultural projects, and reconciliation work with indigenous peoples, the Great Lakes Commons is exploring what stewardship of water means.
2020-06-0145 min
MüşterekYerimizTam olarak bu! "Dönüştürücü bir tasavvur olarak müşterekler", Bollier&Helfrich / MüşterekYerimiz-13MüşterekYerimiz'in başlangıcından bugüne tartıştığımız, heyecanlandığımız ve keşfettiğimiz pek çok şeyi içeriyor bu sohbetimiz, David Bollier ve Silke Helfrich sayesinde!
Felsefelogos'un Müşterekler sayısına devam ederek "Dönüştürücü bir tasavvur olarak müşterekler" adlı makaleyi konuk aldık.
Müşterekler tasavvurunun naif olarak görülebilme ihtimali karşısında aslında ne denli gerçek bağlar kurduğunu bir kez daha anladık.
Bizi motive eden ikiliye ait bu makalenin orjinali "The Wealth of the Commons" adlı erişilebilir derlemelerinin g...
2020-05-0430 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierRachel Moriarty on BerkSharesRachel Moriarty of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics tells the history of the BerkShares currency and its ongoing evolution in developing a new vision for its regional economy. BerkShares, which circulate in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, are one of the most successful local currencies in the world today.
2020-05-0127 min
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDouble Edge Theatre: Art & CommoningMatthew Glassman and Carlos Uriona, co-artistic directors of Double Edge Theatre, explain how commoning animates the performances and stewardship of their artist-owned ensemble theater company in western Massachusetts.
2020-03-0135 min
La bataille du Libre - Philippe BorrelBande annonce du film "La bataille du libre" (version 2mn VF) / Sortie officielle début 2019« La bataille du Libre » film documentaire (version 87mn du film "Internet ou la révolution du partage" bientôt diffusé sur Arte en 2019), écrit & réalisé par Philippe Borrel, avec Annabelle Jarry et Marion Chataing, produit par Jérémy Zelnik & Tancrède Ramonet / Temps noir pour ARTE.
Disponible en replay jusqu'au 4 août 2019 : https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/077346-000-A/internet-ou-la-revolution-du-partage/
Désormais l’informatique est au cœur de presque toutes les activités humaines. A t-elle contribué à faire de nous des citoyens plus autonomes ? Ou plutôt les consommateurs passifs d’un marché devenu total...
2019-01-1900 min
The Next System PodcastSocial Transformation Through ‘The Commons’ (W/ David Bollier)David Bollier joins us this week to discuss “the commons” and what such a concept means for social transformation. You can read more about David’s ideas in his paper for the Next Systems: Models and Possibilities series, and also read more of his work at www.Bollier.org. Transcripts of all of our episodes are available at www.thenextsystem.org. Subscribe to the Next System Podcast via iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, or RSS.
2018-02-2635 min
Love (and Revolution) RadioThe Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity - with David BollierThis week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, David Bollier joins us to explore the role of the Commons in using ancient and new practices to break free of the outdated, unsustainable economic systems of our world. Speaking about natural systems, digital commons, urban commoning, and some looming challenges over the patenting of genomes, smell, and "flows of natural systems", our conversation dives into uncharted territories and thrilling new possibilities. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/About Our Guest:David Bollier is an activist and author (Think Like a Commoner). He...
2016-03-2200 min
Explore A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Soul-Stirring.Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David BollierPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230115to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
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Narrator: David Skulski
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as...
2014-01-016h 03Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Literature, Essays & AnthologiesThink Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David BollierPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230115to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
Author: David Bollier
Narrator: David Skulski
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Release date: January 1, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Essays & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as...
2014-01-016h 03
Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin ZeeseClearing the FOG on the Commons with David BollierDavid Bollier, co-author of The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State, talks about the Commons, which can be almost anything as long as there is public action and governance around it. Bollier explains the myth of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ which is widely taught as truth . We talk about the benefits of reclaiming public space and institutions and the growing sharing economy. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.
2013-08-2854 min