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Yuria Celidwen on Applying Indigenous Wisdom Traditions to Modern Challenges
Episode 57
Yuria Celidwen, an Indigenous researcher in the Department of Psychology at University of California Berkeley, discusses how contemplative practices in Indigenous traditions can expand mindfulness, h…
Published on 10 months ago
Zoe Gilbertson on Bioregional Fibersheds & New Fashion Commons
Episode 56
Zoe Gilbertson is a British fashion ecologist who is re-imagining the fashion industry from the ground up, literally. In an effort to curb the ecological harms of fast fashion, global supply chains, …
Published on 11 months ago
Stefan Gruber's Global Portfolio of Urban Commons
Episode 55
Stefan Gruber, a Carnegie Mellon University professor of architecture and urbanism, sees cities as a prime site of struggle between capitalism and commons, and therefore an important incubator of jus…
Published on 1 year ago
Brandon Letsinger on Cascadia and Bioregional Activism
Episode 54
Brandon Letsinger, a Seattle organizer and cofounding director of the Cascadia Department of Bioregion, discusses the history of bioregional activism in Cascadia and current challenges and strategies…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Bram Büscher: Bridging the Human/Nature Divide through Convivial Conservation
Episode 53
Bram Büscher, an activist-scholar in sociology at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, has launched an ambitious international project to invent noncapitalist forms of land conservation. He call…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Safouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient Transformation
Episode 52
Safouan Azouzi, a Tunisian scholar of the commons and participatory social design, discusses how cultural traditions in desert oases hold important socio-ecological lessons for the world. For the Glo…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Camila Vergara's Vision of Plebeian Constitutionalism
Episode 51
Chilean political philosopher Camila Vergara boldly argues in her book 'Systemic Corruption' that decay and corruption are inevitable even in liberal, representative systems because oligarchs end up …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Cooking Sections Serves Up Art, Eco-Activism & Local Food
Episode 50
The artistic duo known as Cooking Sections -- Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the Royal College of Art in London -- use their virtuoso visual, performance, and installation artworks to j…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
Episode 49
To counter the "implicit feudalism" that is the norm on the Internet, activist-scholar Nathan Schneider explains the potential of democratic governance in online life and its importance to "real worl…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
WIll Ruddick on 'Commitment Pooling' to Build Economic Commons
Episode 48
Will Ruddick, development economist and founder of Grassroots Economics, has spent the past 16 years in Kenya developing innovative "community inclusion currencies" for dozens of poorer communities. …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago