Commons Author & Podcaster, David Bollier

<p>Author, academic, and podcaster David Bollier! David works with the <a href="https://centerforneweconomics.org"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Schumacher Center for a New Economics</strong></span></a> and has studied and written extensively on commoning for the last two decades.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span>For those who aren’t familiar with that word, <em>commoning</em> is simply the act of managing shared resources like land or information.</p> <p>We talk about how he came to study the commons as an alternative for change after being disillusioned with the political system, can’t say it’s gotten any better, starting from where you are, however small, and examples of commoning in our everyday life that we simply don’t have words for, and often overlook.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bollier.org"><span style= "text-decoration: underline;"><strong>You can find his writing, books, and podcast on his website.</strong></span></a></p> <p><em>Mentioned in the show...</em></p> <p><a href= "https://newsociety.com/books/t/think-like-a-commoner?_ga=2.22797874.821500664.1653587796-1186667483.1653587796&sitedomain=us"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Think Like a Commoner (book)</strong></span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Frontiers of Commoning (podcast)</strong></span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles of Managing a Commons</strong></span></a></p> <p><em>My two favorite episodes of FoC...</em></p> <p><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jose-luis-vivero-pol-treating-food-as-commons-not-commodites/id1501085005?i=1000546646928"> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Treating Food as Commons, Not Commodity</span></strong></a></p> <p><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.co