Life-as-Meaning: Biopoetics as Paradigm for Living Relationships
Biology today is undergoing a profound reassessment of its core premises.
Andreas Weber
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.
How Crowdfunding Solar is Keeping the Lights on in Detroit
As the costs of solar technologies decrease, the opportunities for innovative solutions to community problems are increasing.
[freespace]: A Temporary Experiment in Lasting Change
This is freespace and it’s day 27 of a grand civic hacking experiment.
The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
With no steady income and a small budget of $10,000, Wendy and Mikey made their dream homestread come true by buying an old trailer park and reusing abundant local waste.
Seeds of the People: Growing Local Knowledge
It’s challenging enough to explain to a five year old child who has spent his or her whole life in the city that a carrot is a taproot and grows in the dirt.
