How Fruit Trees Are Growing Communities
A global grass roots movement has identified a very effective ingredient for building community: Fruit.
Maria Grusauskas
The End of a Year of Open Source
One year ago, without any discernable tech skills or any practical experience within the fields of open hardware, free software or free culture, I embarked on a project to try to live as ‘open source’ as possible for a whole year.
Natural Anti-Capitalism: Biospheric Householding as the Foundation of an Enlivened Economy
Enlivenment means to get back to living reality as the inspiration and insight for all areas of science.
What’s Next for the Sharing Movement?
With the launch of a promising new sharing movement organization called Peers today, it’s a good time to reflect on the character of the sharing movement.
Life-as-Meaning: Biopoetics as Paradigm for Living Relationships
Biology today is undergoing a profound reassessment of its core premises.
Profiles in Sharing: Janelle Orsi – The Sharing Economy Lawyer
“The media, when they define the sharing economy, is often narrowly focused on technology-enabled sharing,” she says. “Most of the sharing that I work with is local, neighborhood-based so the title Sharing Economy Lawyer gives the wrong impression, but it’s taken more seriously.”
What is community solar?
It sounds great right? “Community Solar” – two powerful words that get solar enthusiasts excited; but what does it mean?
Bioeconomics: The Hidden Megascience
The premises of neo-Darwinism and neoliberalism constitute the tacit, taken-for-granted understanding of “how the world works”.
Bay Area Launches Business Currency Network
Bay Bucks is a new barter network of businesses in the Bay Area that trade their unused resources and skills in exchange for local currency (similar to credit).
Cookin’ Up Food Justice at People’s Kitchen Detroit
Located in the Cass Corridor Commons of Detroit, People’s Kitchen Detroit (PKD) hosts skillshares on everything from canning to gardening, making yogurt and nut milk to DIY herbal medicine.
From Bail-Outs to Bail-Ins: Our Banking System Needs Help
Public banking is a hot topic of late, both here on Shareable and in the world at large.
Liberate Education: How to Start a Free School
This how-to guide was written for Shareable by organizers (especially Aaron Rosenblum) from EXCOtc, a collective of Experimental Colleges in the Twin Cities of Minnesota that shares visions of a better world, offering free and open classes, and building a community around education for social change.
