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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…
Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance
https://www.bollier.org/blog/commoning-relational-provisioning-governance
Published: December 16, 2025 20:35
This is the second section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The remaining three sections of the essay will be published in the remaining days of this week. The full…
Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance
https://www.bollier.org/blog/bioregionalism-commoning-and-relationalized-finance
Published: December 15, 2025 20:59
Have you noticed how the term “bioregional” is becoming a new eco-buzzword and greenwashing term? At the same time, many ordinary people are genuinely excited about the idea of bioregionalism as a constructive way to focus activism and socioeconomic…