Natasha Hulst

Natasha Hulst is the Coordinator for Land Commons Initiatives in Europe for the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.

Breadcoins

Toward Socio-ecological Markets

We must move from a finance that demands private benefits at scale, as purely transactional and extractive, to finance systems grounded in particular places and cooperative relationships, all closely aligned with living systems.

January 13, 2026

Agroforesty in Burkina Faso

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative

The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

January 12, 2026

Communal fishing with a net in Sri Lanka

Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance

In the face of capitalist economics and states intent on asserting their dominance and control, commoners have a mindset that is more expansive, experimental, self-reliant and localist than the market/state dares to imagine.

January 9, 2026

restored prairie

Bioregionalism, Commoning, and Relationalized Finance

Bioregionalism offers a practical, politically accessible space for addressing climate change, social inequality, the eclipse of democracy, out-of-control oligarchs, and capitalist growth. 

January 8, 2026