January 09, 2024

DO 196 - Bioregional and Solidarity Economies with Neal Gorenflo, Daniel London, Ashley, and Jason

1 hour 34 minutes

In this episode Ashley and Jason have a conversation with Neal Gorenflo

(@gorenflo ) and Daniel London (@dlondonwortel ) on the theme of

solidarity and bioregional economies. Specifically, where the solidarity

and bioregonalist movements intersect, blind spots of each, and where

they can compliment each other to create a viable vision for sustainable

and equitable economies moving forward.

Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and board president of Shareable, an

award-winning nonprofit news, action network, and consultancy for the

real sharing economy (plus a dad, husband, community gardener, and

budding urban forester). An epiphany in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the

corporate world to help people and communities share resources.

Subsequently, Neal co-founded Shareable and led it from 2009-2022 as

Executive Director. In the process, he became knowledgeable about

resource sharing, the commons, and the solidarity economy

through practice, activism, entrepreneurship, writing, publishing

(4,000+ articles), consulting, and public speaking. He's consulted for

Institute for the Future, Stanford University, Lowe's Home Improvement,

and numerous startups. His expertise has been featured by The Today

Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Wired, Fast Company,

Christian Science Monitor, Grist, and Sunset Magazine. He is an

experienced public speaker with countless appearances at conferences on

four continents over the last decade. His writing is featured in YES!

Magazine, 7x7 Magazine, The Urbanist, and the anthologies The Wealth of

the Commons, Open Design Now, and Enabling City. He's editor, publisher

or author of 10 books including "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban

Commons" and "Share or Die". In 2020, he chronicled his pandemic

experiences resulting in the book, "A Year of Living Locally." Neal

earned a masters with distinction from Georgetown University's

Communication, Culture & Technology program and BAs in American

Studies and English Literature with distinction from George Mason

University. Contact him at neal at shareable dot net.

Daniel Wortel-London is a historian and advocate of economic and

ecological justice. He currently serves as Policy Specialist for the

Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. He has also

served as Knowledge Co-Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and

Research Coordinator for the CivWorld project at Demos. He earned his

Ph.D. in History from New York University, where his dissertation

focused on the history of alternative economic development strategies in

New York City. This project, titled "The Menace of Prosperity," is

currently under advanced contract with the University of Chicago Press. A

native of Hoboken, Dan works out of West Orange, NJ. You can find him

on X @‌dlondonwortel, and his articles can be found at

www.publicspaced.com

https://www.publicspaced.com/

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