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Stephanie Rearick on Building Social Wealth through Mutual Aid
https://www.bollier.org/blog/stephanie-rearick-building-social-wealth-through-mutual-aid
Published: December 4, 2025 15:32
As market economies become more expensive and predatory, Stephanie Rearick is showing that it’s entirely possible to meet people’s needs effectively through care and cooperation, through a kind of alternative social economy.
For more than twenty…
Next week: “The Promise of Bioregional Economies,” the 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture
https://www.bollier.org/blog/next-week-promise-bioregional-economies-45th-annual-ef-schumacher-lecture
Published: November 14, 2025 21:46
The 45th annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture will be given on Saturday, November 22, at 3 pm EST, by Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield, Co-Founders of The BioFi Project, a leading “think-and-do tank” dedicated to novel finance infrastructures and strategies to…
Five Recent Conversations about the Commons
https://www.bollier.org/blog/five-recent-conversations-about-commons
Published: November 9, 2025 20:32
I always find it invigorating to have interviewers ask me about the commons. Their questions force me to see the commons from other perspectives and raise still other questions. So if you enjoy the back-and-forth of a conversation, here are five recent…
The Future Requires a Politics of Relationality
https://www.bollier.org/blog/future-requires-politics-relationality
Published: November 1, 2025 04:00
At a time when the superstructures of human civilization seem terminally messed up – unable to address climate collapse, authoritarian capitalism, among many other wicked problems – I was thrilled to encounter a book that dares to imagine a fresh and…
Chris Smaje's Vision of a Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism that Works
https://www.bollier.org/blog/chris-smajes-vision-post-capitalist-eco-localism-works
Published: October 1, 2025 04:00
What might the world look like if climate change is not stopped? What if societies refuse to, or cannot rein in capitalism and its relentless growth and exploitation of nature? Chris Smaje, a writer and farmer in southwest England, offers some intelligent…
Bioregioning as the Response to ‘Gaia on the Move’
https://www.bollier.org/blog/bioregioning-response-gaia-move
Published: September 1, 2025 04:00
Isabel Carlisle is a leading figure in bioregional education and action who has a great term for describing the planetary eco- mayhem now underway -- “Gaia on the move.” As climate change intensifies and humankind disrupts ecosystems, Gaia is causing ice…
A Wonderful Book Tour
https://www.bollier.org/blog/wonderful-book-tour
Published: August 15, 2025 15:39
A book tour is a dizzying, whirl-a-gig experience. It catapults an author into a blur of very different podcasts and webinars, classroom talks and conference panels, media interviews and in-person events.
In my case, I also personally visited a…
The Importance of Network Protocols for Commoning & Open Markets
https://www.bollier.org/blog/importance-network-protocols-commoning-open-markets
Published: August 1, 2025 04:00
Most of us don’t give much thought to the arcane technical protocols that make the Internet and its various platforms work. Yet these invisible architectures of code profoundly affect how we can interact with others. They determine what sorts of…
Cecosesola and the Art of Commoning within Capitalist Markets
https://www.bollier.org/blog/cecosesola-and-art-commoning-within-capitalist-markets
Published: July 1, 2025 04:00
One of the most singular and accomplished commons I’ve ever encountered is Cecosesola, a federation of Venezuelan cooperatives. The remarkable federation artfully manages multiple ventures as commons while deeply immersed within a system of capitalist…
Jack Kloppenburg on Sharing Seeds in a World of Proprietary Agriculture
https://www.bollier.org/blog/jack-kloppenburg-sharing-seeds-world-proprietary-agriculture
Published: June 1, 2025 04:00
Seed sharing has been a venerable tradition since the dawn of agriculture. Sharing has been a way of honoring the renewal of life, developing new seedlines, and maintaining a farmer’s independence while helping other farmers. Modern capitalism, armed with…