Best Tom Llewellyn Podcasts (2025)

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172 (Part 2) Tom Llewellyn of Shareable: how sharing and cooperative projects help us thrive 29:57

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This is the 2nd part of my conversation with Tom Llewellyn of Shareable, an organization that collaborates with others to imagine, resource, network, and scale cooperative projects. We hear about Shareable’s How-To Guides, which cover a vast range of topics from how to reduce food waste to starting mutual aid funds, and Tom explains how sharing ini…

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Defining environmental justice communities when 'equity' is a banned word with Marcos Luna 55:19

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Since the emergence of the Environmental Justice movement, maps have been pivotal tools in revealing patterns of environmental and social inequality, in legitimizing what many communities already knew – that power and oppression shape the landscape of opportunity and risk. Mapping remains critical to Environmental Justice activism, research, and po…

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172 Tom Llewellyn of Shareable: how sharing and cooperative projects help us thrive 41:03

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We discuss the importance of sharing and its many benefits with Tom Llewellyn, the Executive Director of Shareable, which collaborates with others to imagine, resource, network, and scale cooperative projects. Tom helps communities develop Libraries of Things (LoTs) and other forms of low-cost, environmentally friendly social infrastructure that he…

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The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani 56:08

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Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In her recent book, The Cities We Need (MIT Press), photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani introduces us to the complex, political, and eminently personable stories of residents who answered this question in Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California. Their universal s…

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Stephanie Rearick on Building Social Wealth through Mutual Aid 45:14

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As the capitalist economy grows more expensive and predatory, Stephanie Rearick and her colleagues are building an alternative social economy that meets people’s needs through care and cooperation. As founder of the Madison Mutual Aid Network Cooperative and Dane County Timebank in Wisconsin, Rearick is a leading champion of mutual aid projects as …

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171 Dr. Patrick Schröder: circular economy policymaking – progress and barriers 46:14

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Dr. Patrick Schröder, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, assesses the progress and barriers for circular economy policymaking. Patrick Schröder specializes in the circular economy, climate change, resource governance, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His work brings together science, policy, and media to help further evidence-b…

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Mutual Aid 101: Navigating conflict when building power with Dean Spade 1:21:22

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On November 20, 2025, we hosted activist, organizer, and writer Dean Spade to lead a Mutual Aid 101 session about navigating conflict. So many of our mutual aid groups and solidarity economy projects are dealing with burnout, conflict, and the pressure of doing real care work with limited capacity. We currently find ourselves in a particularly " ho…

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Sexual health emergency preparedness with Kelley Dennings and Kyliah Hughes 35:18

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When floods, fires, freezes, or other extreme weather rip through our communities, the fallout goes far beyond damaged homes and downed power lines. As we've established on The Response Podcast, the climate crisis touches everyone—especially women and gender-diverse people—yet sexual and reproductive health rarely makes the checklist. Stores, pharm…

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170 Catherine Weetman: unpacking the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook 26:19

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Author Catherine Weetman unpacks the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook: How to Build a More Resilient, Competitive and Sustainable Business, giving you a preview of the big changes and new insights. The new, 3rd edition was published by Kogan Page in paperback and e-book format on 3 November 2025, and the print edition for the US and Canad…

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The Future Requires a Politics of Relationality 46:55

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At a time when the superstructures of modern civilization seem terminally messed up, the authors of 'Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human' argue that we must start a new conversation about the nature of being and modern myths of the self. Anthropologist Arturo Escobar, cultural studies scholar Michal Osterweil, and biologist…

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Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt 1:09:03

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On October 21, 2025 Shareable and the Tool Library Alliance hosted a crossover event of the Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series and Library of Things Co-Lab for "Tool Libraries, Mutual Aid & Community-Led Disaster Response." A panel of practitioners from tool libraries and mutual aid groups discussed the intersection of resource sharing and mutual aid. …

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169 Bailey Bestul: imaginative reuse of architectural components to create exciting and inspiring buildings 30:29

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Bailey Bestul explains how imaginative reuse of architectural components can create exciting, unique and inspiring buildings. Bailey is a registered architect, researcher and author based in New York City. His book, Reuse of Architectural Components, published by Routledge, was inspired by Bailey’s extensive research throughout Europe after he was …

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The Pointillistic City: Well-Being and Equity in Communities and their Places with Dan O'Brien 55:03

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The Pointillistic City extends the classic observation that "neighborhoods matter" for health and well-being, arguing that we need to pay more attention to the other geographic scales that we live at—including streets within neighborhoods and even properties within streets—and how they each affect us. This is analogous to a pointillistic painting, …

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168 Matt Paneitz of Long Way Home: Hero School – transforming trash into useful buildings 51:22

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Long Way Home’s Hero School in Guatemala is a community-rooted educational initiative that transforms local trash into useful buildings. Matthew Paneitz first visited San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2002, and was deeply affected by this rural, Indigenous Maya community where 64% live in poverty and 27% in extreme poverty…

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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and Institution Building with Monica White 52:09

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Dr. Monica M. White presented Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and Institution Building." The presentation provided context for understanding agriculture as a strategy of resilience and resistance for African Americans. It will offer a perspective of the labor and commitment to agriculture from those in southern Black rural communities to t…

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Chris Smaje's Vision of a Post-Collapse Eco-Localism that Works 44:06

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What might the world look like if capitalist growth and carbon emissions continue, and modern civilization collapses? Chris Smaje, a small farmer and writer in England, extrapolates from existing trends to sketch a vision of post-capitalist social economies. His new book, 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft,' envisions a wor…

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Artists against fascism: People power and resistance with Jordan Seaberry 55:54

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In this episode of The Response, we hear from Jordan Seaberry, co-director of the US Dept of Arts and Culture (USDAC). In addition to being a working artist and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, he has built a career as a grassroots organizer and legislative advocate, helping to pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, incl…

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167 HaPPE Earth: circular, compostable PPE systems 53:38

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Lisa and Mary O’Riordan are co-founders of HaPPE Earth, a circular business providing compostable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) with an end-to-end waste management system that creates a nutrient rich fertiliser using this PPE, combined with the client’s food waste. The HaPPE Earth solution is ideal for a range of sectors including healthcare,…

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166 Circularity Gap Report 2025: insights 1:02:30

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Matthew Fraser of Circle Economy and David Rakowski of Deloitte are two of the team behind the Circularity Gap Report, and we discuss some of the key insights from the 2025 report, published in early summer. The Circularity Gap Report aims to provide a comprehensive ‘report card’ for the global circular economy, and shows that we are still a long w…

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165 Christina Schwarzkopf of Prolong: seamless solutions for circular aftercare and aftersales 56:45

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Christina Schwarzkopf is co-founder of Prolong, a business-to-business white-label software solution enabling fashion brands and retailers to offer and manage circular aftercare and aftersales services. Those services could include repair, cleaning, personalization, exchanges, and refunds. Christina combines her commercial, strategy, and sustainabi…

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Isabel Carlisle, Bioregioning as a Response to 'Gaia on the Move' 53:54

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As climate change and other crises makes the economy and everyday life more precarious, innovative forms of bioregional action are needed to respond to 'Gaia on the move," says Isabel Carlisle, founder and director of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) in Devon, England. Carlisle describes the importance of building local ecological expertise, p…

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164 Louis De Jaeger: our futures depend on healthy soils 55:56

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Healthy soils provide the foundation for life on our planet, and yet most agriculture degrades soil. Nurturing soil should be at the top of all our priority lists, and Louis De Jaeger—author of the new book ‘SOS: Save Our Soils, How regenerative farming can save your health and the planet’ — helps us understand why it’s so important, and what we ca…

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163 Patrik Frisk of Reju: regenerating polyester textiles 58:02

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We dig into the complexities of textile recycling with Patrik Frisk, who is working to create a circular economy for textile-to-textile polyester regeneration. Patrik is the CEO of Reju, a recent startup enabling polyester to be recycled at speed and scale. Patrik has over thirty years’ experience of working in the apparel and footwear industries f…

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Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network Protocols Enable Digital Commons & Open Marrkets 57:42

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Evan Henshaw-Plath, better known as Rabble, is a pioneering programmer for social media platforms and decentralized technologies. Here, Rabble explains how network protocols are critical infrastructure for enabling -- or impeding -- commons and open markets, not to mention privacy, free speech, and community control. Their ambition is a future in w…

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162 Rachel Bronstein and Barry Waddilove: Skills for Planet from the Design Council 1:02:43

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It’s episode 162 – we’re discussing design skills and why it’s crucial that design for circularity goes beyond the design of the product itself, to cover the materials, the customer experience, the supply chain, the collection of data for KPIs, and much more. Helping us think about this are Rachel Bronstein, a Senior Programme Manager at the Design…

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Organizing in the Extinction Era with Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis of Survival Bloc 42:14

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The Response is back after a two-month hiatus. For today's show, we resumed our interview format and welcomed two of the seven co-founders of Survival Bloc, Daisy Carter and Aracely Jimenez-Hudis. Survival Bloc is a BIPOC-led network of leaders, movement organizations, and grassroots groups building power and community alternatives to survive the c…

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161 Dan Vukelich of AMDR: medical device reprocessing 51:30

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Dan Vukelich, President of the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, has spent 25 years campaigning and working to encourage reuse and remanufacturing of ‘single use’ medical devices, first in the USA and now in Europe and other countries. To give you a feel for the scale of this, in 2024, over 55 million single-use devices were reprocessed a…

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Gustavo Salas of Cecosesola: Prioritizing Commoning in a World of Capitalist Markets 32:59

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Gustavo Salas describes the remarkable culture of commoning at Cecosesola, a federation of 30 rural and urban cooperatives in Venezuela that serves hundreds of thousands of people with fresh produce, healthcare, funerary services, and many other goods and services. Cecosesola's priority is to create spaces of trust, togetherness, and self-improveme…

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160 Systems and system value 35:29

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One of recurring themes in the new edition of A Circular Economy Handbook (to be published in November 2025) is the importance of systems thinking and systems design. I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s book, This is Strategy, and he says successful strategies depend on two things: being conscious of the change we seek to make and the systems that can a…

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159 Kyle Wiens of iFixit: the rewards of repairability 30:47

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Kyle Wiens is the co-founder of iFixit, the international repair community known for open-source repair manuals and product teardown. Kyle is also one of my circular economy heroes! Since it started back in 2003, iFixit has empowered hundreds of millions of people to repair their broken stuff. Kyle led the international coalition that legalized Rig…