David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger, and independent scholar who has studied the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics, and culture for the past fifteen years. He pursues this work primarily as co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, a consulting project that assists the international commons movement, and as co-director of the Commons Law Project, which is seeking to regenerate the legal traditions for protecting the commons. His most recent book is Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons. He also recently published Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons, with co-author Burns H. Weston, and The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State, an anthology of essays produced with co-editor Silke Helfrich.