
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
by The Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier
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Brave New Alps: Catalyzing a Rural Resurgence through Commoning
Jun 1, 2026
44m 50s
'Ecocivilization': Jeremy Lent's Bracing Vision of System Change
May 1, 2026
49m 47s
Benjamin Mako Hill on the Distinctive Dynamics of Online Collaboration
Apr 1, 2026
44m 05s
Federico Savini on Degrowth and Its Future
Mar 1, 2026
51m 25s
Stéphanie Leyronas on France's Bold Experiment in Commons-based Development
Feb 1, 2026
39m 50s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/1/26 | ![]() Brave New Alps: Catalyzing a Rural Resurgence through Commoning✨ | commoningrural development+3 | Bianca Elzenbaumer | Brave New Alpswww.Bollier.org | Italian AlpsVallagarina | commoningrural towns+5 | — | 44m 50s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() 'Ecocivilization': Jeremy Lent's Bracing Vision of System Change✨ | ecological societycapitalism+3 | Jeremy Lent | www.Bollier.orgEcocivilization | — | ecocivilizationcapitalism+3 | — | 49m 47s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Benjamin Mako Hill on the Distinctive Dynamics of Online Collaboration✨ | online collaborationdigital commons+4 | Benjamin Mako Hill | University of WashingtonWikipedia+3 | — | online collaborationdigital commons+6 | — | 44m 05s | |
| 3/1/26 | ![]() Federico Savini on Degrowth and Its Future✨ | degrowthenvironmental planning+4 | Federico Savini | University of AmsterdamSchumacher Center for a New Economics+1 | — | degrowthsustainability+7 | — | 51m 25s | |
| 2/1/26 | ![]() Stéphanie Leyronas on France's Bold Experiment in Commons-based Development✨ | commons-based developmentsocial collaboration+4 | Stéphanie Leyronas | French Development AgencyAFD+1 | FranceAfrica+2 | commonsdevelopment+5 | — | 39m 50s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() Lewis Hyde on Gift Economies & Cultural Commons✨ | gift economiescultural commons+3 | Lewis Hyde | US Founding Fatherswww.Bollier.org+2 | — | gift economiescultural commons+5 | — | 36m 11s | |
| 12/4/25 | ![]() Stephanie Rearick on Building Social Wealth through Mutual Aid✨ | mutual aidsocial economy+3 | Stephanie Rearick | Madison Mutual Aid Network CooperativeDane County Timebank+2 | — | mutual aidsocial economy+5 | — | 45m 14s | |
| 11/1/25 | ![]() The Future Requires a Politics of Relationality✨ | politicsrelationality+3 | Arturo EscobarMichal Osterweil+1 | Bollier.orgRelationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human | — | politicsrelationality+5 | — | 46m 55s | |
| 10/1/25 | ![]() Chris Smaje's Vision of a Post-Collapse Eco-Localism that Works✨ | eco-localismpost-capitalism+4 | Chris Smaje | The Schumacher Center for a New Economicswww.Bollier.org+1 | — | eco-localismpost-capitalism+5 | — | 44m 06s | |
| 9/1/25 | ![]() Isabel Carlisle, Bioregioning as a Response to 'Gaia on the Move'✨ | bioregionalismclimate change+3 | Isabel Carlisle | Bioregional Learning CentreSchumacher Center for a New Economics+1 | DevonEngland | bioregional actionGaia+3 | — | 53m 54s | |
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| 8/1/25 | ![]() Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network Protocols Enable Digital Commons & Open Marrkets✨ | digital commonsnetwork protocols+4 | Evan Henshaw-Plath | The Schumacher Center for a New Economicswww.Bollier.org+1 | — | network protocolsdigital commons+4 | — | 57m 42s | |
| 7/1/25 | ![]() Gustavo Salas of Cecosesola: Prioritizing Commoning in a World of Capitalist Markets✨ | commoningcooperatives+4 | Gustavo Salas | CecosesolaRight Livelihood Award+1 | Venezuela | Cecosesolacommoning+6 | — | 32m 59s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() Jack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary Agriculture | Jack 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | ![]() Tom Llewellyn on the Many, Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing | Tom 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | ![]() Commoning within Arts Collectives, Episode #61 | What 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 on commons at www.Bollier.org. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | ![]() David 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 2/1/25 | ![]() Future Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular Genres | Anthropologist 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? For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 1/1/25 | ![]() Pirate Care as a Revolutionary Act: Valeria Graziano & Tomislav Medak | 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 their new book, 'Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity' (Pluto Press), activists Valeria Graziano (Italy; England) and Tomislav Medak (Croatia) explain the varieties and logics of pirate care. (The book's third coauthor is Marcell Mars (Croatia; England)). For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | ![]() Yuria Celidwen on Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions to Modern Challenges | Yuria 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 modern, Western cultures, and Indigenous cultures traumatized by genocide and other colonial traumas. More on the commons at www.Bollier.org. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 11/1/24 | ![]() Zoe Gilbertson on Bioregional Fibersheds & New Fashion Commons | Zoe 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 of fashion commons. More on Gilbertson: https://liflad.substack.com. More on the commons: https://www.bollier.org. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | ![]() Stefan Gruber's Global Portfolio of Urban Commons | Stefan 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 9/1/24 | ![]() Brandon Letsinger on Cascadia and Bioregional Activism | Brandon 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 8/1/24 | ![]() Bram Büscher: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide through Convivial Conservation | Bram 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.org For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 7/1/24 | ![]() Safouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient Transformation | Safouan 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 For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | ![]() Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism | Chilean 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. For more on the commons, go to www.Bollier.org. | — | ||||||
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