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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 developing the innovative Solar Commons model. Th…
Published on 1 year, 8 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 launched an open, collaborative project to develop…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Aaron Perzanowski on Bottom-up Creativity & the Right to Repair
Episode 45
Professor Aaron Perzanowski of the University of Michigan Law School explains how many artistic communities flourish as commons, without copyright protections that privilege private ownership and mar…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Shane O'Donnell: The Breakthrough Insulin Device Developed by Commoners
Episode 44
Shane O'Donnell, a sociologist and researcher, has been at the forefront of the "device activism" and #WeAreNotWaiting movement, a globe-spanning community of techies and people living with diabetes …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Mihnea Tanasescu on the Need for 'Ecocene Politics'
Episode 43
The best term for this era of geological history is not the Anthropocene, says Mihnea Tănăsescu, a research professor at the University of Mons in Belgium, but the Ecocene. "The increasingly frequent…
Published on 2 years ago
Hannes Gerhardt: Compeerism as a Path from Capital to Commons
Episode 42
Hannes Gerhardt, a professor of geography at the University of West Georgia (US), talks about his new book, 'From Capital to Commons: Exploring the Promise of a World Beyond Capitalism', especially a…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Natasha Hulst: The Campaign for an Amsterdam Food Park
Episode 41
Natasha Hulst, Director of the European Land Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, describes a spirited campaign by commoners to build an urban farm and green space, Voedselpark, or F…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Linzey on Nature's Rights and Self-Owning Land
Episode 40
Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, has been at the forefront of ambitious campaigns to create novel legal doctrines for "community rights," "th…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy on Post-Capitalist Philanthropy
Episode 39
Long-time activist Alnoor Ladha and former program officer Lynn Murphy explain why so many philanthropies aren't really interested in system change. In their book 'Post Capitalist Philanthropy', the…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Leah Penniman on 'Black Earth Wisdom'
Episode 38
Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm in the Hudson Valley, New York, showcases the history of African-American farming and Indigenous land traditions in her new book 'Black Earth Wisdom' in whi…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago