The Sharing Economy is Booming in Helsinki: Here’s Why
Helsinki is, in many respects, a sharer’s paradise.
Anna Bergren Miller
There’s No Single Right Path : Resilience Reflections with Chris Smaje
There’s no single right path and there’s a lot to be learned from people following different, even antithetical, paths to your own.
Shared Space Aims to Create Safer, More Polite Roads
Shared Space, as such streets are called, is an urban planning alternative that puts everyone in the same space and makes them communicate with each other.
Food Justice Truck Serves Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Asylum Seekers
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
New Report Outlines Strategies for Community Wealth Building
A new Democracy Collaborative report summarizes lessons learned from 11 case studies of organizations including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.
How Placemaking with “Bottle Bricks” Changes Lives
This is the story of how a simple idea forever changed my life, as well as the lives of many others.
Ex-cons at LA Kitchen Feed the Hungry with Food Waste
“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.”
Dignity, Democracy and Food: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappè
What is the balance between crisis and progress? Can food activism possibly keep pace with the food industry’s destructive swath?
“Something’s Happening Here… What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear…”
“For What’s It’s Worth,” the 1967 Buffalo Springfield song as lyrical, close-up, socio-economic observation, still resonates.
Mutual Aid Network: The New Cooperative Model on the Block
The move to a new economy is underway, whether we like it or not.
New Book Does a Deep Dive Into Running a Seed Library
In her new book, Seed Libraries: and Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People, Conner does a deep dive into issues surrounding seeds and seed sharing.
16 Tips to Crowdfund a Tool Library In Your Town
“It’s amazing to see how positively people react to the idea of a tool library, and crowdfunding provides the ideal way to get the word out and raise money to get one started. Crowdfunding provides a way for communities to gauge support, and if that support is there—which it often is—it gives them the momentum and resources to hit the ground running.”
