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From Inner Change to Systemic Change
https://www.bollier.org/blog/inner-change-systemic-change
Published: May 7, 2025 17:44
With the release of my significantly revised, new edition of Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, I've had a chance to start some new conversations and engage with different communities of practice. Recently, the Garrison…
The Many Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing
https://www.bollier.org/blog/many-innovative-spheres-organized-sharing
Published: May 1, 2025 04:00
Fifteen years ago, the American group Shareable filled a huge void in public consciousness when it began reporting about creative forms of sharing. Its web magazine introduced people to tool libraries, mutual aid networks, food-sharing systems, “sharing…
Commoning within Arts Collectives: Three International Stories
https://www.bollier.org/blog/commoning-within-arts-collectives-three-international-stories
Published: April 1, 2025 04:00
What are some of the distinctive ways that precarious arts collectives share resources, support each other, and make art? I recently learned a lot about this topic from a workshop of international artists convened in Amsterdam. Most of the artists…
Welcome ‘Think Like a Commoner’, Second Edition!
https://www.bollier.org/blog/welcome-think-commoner-second-edition
Published: February 28, 2025 20:44
About a year ago, some folks in Bangkok reached out to me. Hans van Willenswaard and his wife Wallapa wanted to translate my book Think Like a Commoner into Thai and publish it. Hans is the founder of the Innovation Network International in Thailand, and…
Future Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular Genres
https://www.bollier.org/blog/future-natures-seeing-commons-through-popular-genres
Published: February 1, 2025 05:00
In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University of Sussex in England. Led by anthropologist and research…
Pirate Care as a Revolutionary Act
https://www.bollier.org/blog/pirate-care-revolutionary-act
Published: January 1, 2025 05:00
Providing care to people in need is usually seen as supremely humane and ethical. But look more closely and you'll find that "care" is often a vehicle for self-serving social and political control. It's often considered acceptable to withhold care from…
Yuria Celidwen on Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions to Modern Challenges
https://www.bollier.org/blog/yuria-celidwen-applying-indigenous-wisdom-traditions-modern-challenges
Published: December 1, 2024 05:00
I've always been fascinated by the striking affinities between commoners and Indigenous peoples, as well as their significant differences. Both are keenly aware of life as a deeply relational phenomenon -- one that Western capitalism, science, and market…
Zoe Gilbertson on Bioregional Fibersheds & New Fashion Commons
https://www.bollier.org/blog/zoe-gilbertson-bioregional-fibersheds-new-fashion-commons
Published: November 1, 2024 04:00
Look behind the glitz and glamour of global fashion, and you will find an ecologically harmful, anti-social industry largely unable to shed its capitalist dynamics. Its factories generate huge amounts of pollution and rely on underpaid, abused sweatshop…
Remembering Stephan Harding, 1953-2024
https://www.bollier.org/blog/remembering-stephan-harding-1953-2024
Published: October 1, 2024 18:25
I didn't know Stephan Harding well, but the fruits of his work -- especially his books and Schumacher College -- have influenced me a lot. It is with sadness that I'd like to note that Harding, a brilliant zoologist and ecologist who pioneered many novel…
An Atlas for Urban Commons of the World
https://www.bollier.org/blog/atlas-urban-commons-world
Published: October 1, 2024 04:00
Why is the commons a useful perspective for thinking about urban design and architecture? Stefan Gruber, a Carnegie Mellon professor of architecture and urbanism, sees cities as a prime site of struggle between capitalism and commons, and at the…