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Brave New Alps: New Forms of Rural Resurgence Through Commoning and Care
https://www.bollier.org/blog/brave-new-alps-new-forms-rural-resurgence-through-commoning-and-care
Published: June 1, 2026 04:00
To outsiders, the Alps may conjure images of majestic mountain landscapes and carefree ski vacations. But to tens of thousands of people living in small Alpine towns, the challenges they face aren’t so different from those of many rural towns: How to meet…
Jeremy Lent’s ‘Ecocivilization’ – A Bold Vision for System Change
https://www.bollier.org/blog/jeremy-lents-ecocivilization-bold-vision-system-change
Published: May 1, 2026 04:00
With so many social movements seeking system change – cooperatives, commons, Doughnut Economics, peer production, relocalization and more – things quickly get confusing. There are so many different vocabularies, political premises, and theories of change…
Now Available -- Audiobook and Digital Versions of ‘Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition'
Published: April 13, 2026 21:17
One point of using a Creative Commons license is to make a book (and other creative works) as widely available as possible. To that end, I’m thrilled to announce a new stage in the life of Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition, published last year by New…
Benjamin Mako Hill on the Social Dynamics of Online Collaboration
https://www.bollier.org/blog/benjamin-mako-hill-social-dynamics-online-collaboration
Published: April 1, 2026 04:00
Understanding how online communities function is a particularly vexing challenge. For example, is a wiki best understood as a volunteer club and nonprofit organization? Or does it more closely resemble a business that organizes the wisdom of crowd -- or…
Federico Savini on Degrowth and Its Future
https://www.bollier.org/blog/federico-savini-degrowth-and-its-future
Published: March 1, 2026 05:00
Humanity cannot continue to expand production and consumption exponentially on a finite planet. It’s biophysically impossible. The carbon emissions are already producing more volatile weather patterns, more frequent floods, droughts, and wildfires, and…
Stéphanie Leyronas: France’s Bold Experiment in Commons-based Development
Published: January 30, 2026 19:02
The western world has long promoted “development” as a high-minded mission to bring capitalist markets and growth to impoverished areas of the world. But what if development were seen not just as a matter of creating markets, but of strengthening social…
Lewis Hyde on Gift Economies and Cultural Commons
https://www.bollier.org/blog/lewis-hyde-gift-economies-and-cultural-commons
Published: January 1, 2026 05:00
In the late 1970s, well before I became interested in the commons, one of the most formative books that I encountered, at age 23, was Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. I first read an excerpt in the Whole Earth Review –…
Relationalized Finance: Bridging the Chasm
https://www.bollier.org/blog/relationalized-finance-bridging-chasm
Published: December 19, 2025 18:52
This is the fifth and final section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The full essay can be downloaded as a PDF here and at Natasha Hulst's Substack. Previous sections…
Toward Socio-ecological Markets
https://www.bollier.org/blog/toward-socio-ecological-markets
Published: December 19, 2025 18:30
This is the fourth section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The remaining section will be published tomorrow. The full essay can be downloaded as a PDF here. Previous…
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
https://www.bollier.org/blog/toward-new-theory-value-and-meaning-living-systems-generative
Published: December 18, 2025 15:45
This is the third section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The remaining two sections will be published tomorrow and Saturday. The full essay can be downloaded as a PDF…