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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 co…
1 year, 8 months 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…
1 year, 9 months 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…
1 year, 10 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 s…
1 year, 11 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…
2 years 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 v…
2 years, 1 month 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 governan…
2 years, 2 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 inclus…
2 years, 3 months ago
Kathryn Milun: Sharing the Sun's Energy through Solar Commons
Episode 47
Kathryn Milun, a community-engaged scholar, writer, and energy democracy advocate at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, has spent the past 15 years…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann's Project to Reimagine Economics Education
Episode 46
Appalled by the dismal state of economics education for young people, Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, an international secondary school educator, has …
2 years, 5 months ago