David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and blogger who is focused on the

commons The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons ...

as a paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. He is a director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, and is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, an international advocacy project.

Biography

Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website. Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.” Bollier co-founded the

Public Knowledge Public Knowledge is an American non-profit organization, non-profit advocacy, public interest group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2001 by David Bollier, Gigi Sohn, and Laurie Racine, Public Knowledge is primarily involved in the fields of ...

group in 2002 and served as a board member until 2010. He was awarded the 2012 Bosch

Berlin Prize The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin to scholars and artists. Each year, about 20 fellows are selected. The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlan ...

in Public Policy at the

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.American Academy in Berlin
Berlin Prize Fellows.
He collaborated with television writer/producer

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from 1985 to 2010 on political and public affairs projects, and worked with

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in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He lives in

Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst () is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. Amherst has a council–manager form of government, and is considered a city under Massachusetts state law. Amherst is one of several Massach ...

Books

*''The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead'' ( Schumacher Center for a New Economics, 2021) *''The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life Amidst Capitalist Ruins'', (with co-editor Anna Grear) ( Punctum Books, 2020) *''Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons'' (with co-author Silke Helfrich) ( New Society Publishers, 2019, ) *''Patterns of Commoning'' (with co-author Silke Helfrich) (Off the Common Books, 2015) *''From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society'' (with co-editor John H. Clippinger) (ID3 and Off the Common Books, 2014) *''Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons"'' ( New Society Publishers), 2014

*''Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons"'' (with co-author Burns H. Weston) (

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), 2012

*''The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State"'' (with co-editor Silke Helfrich) (Levellers Press, 2012

*''Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own'' ( The New Press, New Press, 2009

*''Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity'' (Lear Center Press, 200

*''Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture'' (

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, 2005

*''Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation'' (with Thomas McGarity and Sidney Shapiro;

Environmental Law Institute The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., that seeks to "make law work for people, places, and the planet" through its work as an environmental law educator, convener, pub ...

, 2004) *''Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content'' (Norman Lear Center, 200

*''Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth'' (

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, 2002)

*''Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision.'' (AMACOM, 1996) *''The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters'' (Yale University Press, 1991) *''Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court'' (Connecticut Attorney General, 1986)

References

External links

Personal site

Commons Strategies Group

On the Commons
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