Episode 150 (18 Aug 2021): After more than a decade of launching & running Couchsurfing, the largest trust experiment of all time with 20M+ users, Casey Fenton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyfenton/) has turned his attention to one of the biggest trust & cooperation challenges in business: Company ownership. His latest startup, Upstock (upstock.io), makes it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to offer Fortune 1000-level equity to their workers without expensive and time-consuming lawyers.

Links David mentioned

https://www.couchsurfing.com

https://waag.org/en/article/airbnb-harming-amsterdams-communities

The Secrets of Our Success (same author of a new book on WEIRD…)

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723 <=== social capital and evolution. Great book!

Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

https://www.inputmag.com/features/rise-and-ruin-of-couchsurfing

Episode 149 (13 Aug 2021): David Mancera, a Salinas Valley native, has a unique relationship with the local agricultural community. David got his first exposure to agriculture at a very young age, contributing to his migrant family’s income. David is a Director for Kitchen Table Advisors (https://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/), a Northern California-based nonprofit organization whose mission is contributing to the economic viability of small sustainable farms and ranches through practical business advising and building relationships.

ALBA: https://www.albafarmers.org/

\California Farmlink: https://www.californiafarmlink.org/

Episode 148 (12 Aug 2021): Michael E. Campana is a 'pracademic' who, for 45 years, has taught and conducted groundwater research at universities in Nevada, New Mexico and now, Oregon (since 2006). He focuses on Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) & water supply resilience these days but has also broadedned his horizons to include Integrated water resources management and adaptation. He is the founder and CEO of the hydrophilanthropy Ann Campana Judge Foundation that funds/conducts Water and Sanitation projects in Honduras.

Ann Campana Judge Foundation:

www.acjfoundation.org

Managed Aquifer Depletion (MAD) and ethics:

https://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/AWRAS/AWRAS0218/index.php?startid=10#/p/20

Actual World, Possible Future (a biographical film on the Ostroms)

https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/

Fracking and politics in ND

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/06/north-dakota-republicans-oil-fracking-environment-502308

Episode 147 (4 Aug 2021): Erik Nordman is a professor of Natural Resources Management at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. He teaches courses in the economic, policy, and social dimensions of natural resources and the environment. In 2019-2020, Nordman was a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop where he continues to collaborate as a faculty affiliate. His book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, published by Island Press, is already out in the US and will be coming out in other countries later this year.

https://islandpress.org/books/uncommon-knowledge-elinor-ostrom

The Ostrom Workshop

https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/

Actual World, Possible Future (a biographical film on the Ostroms)

https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/

DZ's post on the 2x2 (Ostroms 1977 article on funding municipal services)

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=258

The Power of Giving Away Power with Matthew Barzun and Kamal Ahmed

https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/thepowerofgivingawaypowerwithmatthewbarzunandkamalahmed

Shopclass as Soulcraft

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2891

Episode 146 (3 Aug 2021): Shi-Ling Hsu (https://myweb.fsu.edu/shsu/) is the D'Alemberte Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law, where he served as Associate Dean for Environmental Programs from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Hsu held other academic, governmental and private practice positions. Professor Hsu has degrees in electrical engineering, law, ecology and agricultural and resource economics. He has taught environmental and natural resource law, climate change, law and economics, quantitative methods, and property law. He has 60+ publications and is the author of _The Case for a Carbon Tax_ and the co-author of _Ocean and Coastal Resources Law_. In October 2021, his next book comes out: _Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Planet_

Article discussing hogs/water-quality costs (and much more!)

https://myweb.fsu.edu/shsu/publications/94OreLRev23.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption#Meat_consumption_by_country

David's blog post on new-world resource culture...

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/10/columbus-and-the-destruction-of-endless-resources/

Episode 145 (29 Jul 2021): Daniel Lippman (https://www.politico.com/staff/daniel-lippman) is a reporter covering the White House and Washington for POLITICO (a internet news site that mostly focusses on US politics). He was previously a co-author of POLITICO's Playbook (Politico's daily newsletter) where he still contributes regularly. Daniel has worked as a reporter since graduating from George Washington University in 2012.

Episode 144 (20 Jul 2021): Laura Herren and Pieter Teer recently recently graduated from Leiden University College (LUC), majoring in Governance, Economics, and Development (GED). Laura is now working in Nepal for Swiss Contact, a private Swiss foundation carrying out development projects worldwide. Pieter is working to gain experience in a variety of areas, to help him choose a suitable graduate program.

Laura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-herren/

Pieter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-teer-06281212a/

Pieter's valedictorian speech: https://youtu.be/01cOJZTu-vk?t=2435

Shop class as soul craft (review to come!): https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft

Episode 143 (20 Jul 2021): Simone Callioni (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-callioni-81828ba/) received his masters degree in industrial chemistry from the University of Milan in 2000. Since then, he has worked on municipal and industrial water treatment in Italy, UAE, India and the US. Simone began his career focusing on ultrafiltration membranes and then on using biological systems to desalinate drinking water, reuse wastewater and assess Zero Liquid Discharge systems. He's now working on reducing the water footprint for industrial projects.

Episode 142 (28 Jun 2021): Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC). Specializing in water security and WASH law, Alexandra works with stakeholders spanning from civil society groups and nonprofits to governments to understand, evaluate, and innovate in water law to achieve water security and universal access to WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene). In addition, Alexandra teaches water law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the American University Washington College of Law.

Luke Wilson is the Co-Founder and Deputy Director of The CWSC. Specializing in international law, Luke works with a wide range of stakeholders to activate international law and water law to achieve water security and greater cooperation. In addition, Luke teachers international law at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.

Center for Water Security and Cooperation: http://www.ourwatersecurity.org

RENEWAL, the water security and WASH law legal platform: http://law.thecwsc.org

BLUE Phone is our legal technical assistance unit dedicated to Building Legal Understanding and Engagement by working with governments and non-governmental stakeholders to strengthen their law and institutions, and active stronger, more active civic engagement and awareness.

Episode 141 (25 Jun 2021): Karel Thieme was born 65 years ago in Rotterdam. He's a father and grandfather and has been a Genuine Tea ambassador & Pure Water pioneer for the past 40 years. After passionately reviving tea culture by promoting preparation with purified water, he has focussed since 2010 on a mission of "Pure Water for All.” Karel and his friend Olivier Olmer run their company Aquapeak (www.aquapeak.nl), which offers an innovative water purifier that removes undesirable residues of medicines, chemicals, pesticides, viruses, hormones, nano-plastics, lead and other heavy metals form water.

Episode 60: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/60-karel-thieme-enjoys-the-magic-of-clean-water

Weekly (Saturday-morning 10.30) PFAS/Forever Chemicals-protest

at the gate of Chemours in Dordrecht:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/946663375478643

Aquapeak-reviews:

https://www.facebook.com/echtzuiverwater/reviews/?ref=page_internal