Transactional Sharing, Transformational Sharing
What is ‘the sharing economy’? This is a term that is being hotly contested and debated right now, both in the media and among leading thinkers and practitioners.
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SELC Celebrates Victories and Launches Seed Library Campaign
Now in its fifth year, SELC is a driving force for the new economy, doing pioneering work around worker cooperatives, home-based food businesses, alternative currencies, legal guides for sharing, legal apprenticeships, accessible legal cafes, renewable energy, the commons, seed libraries and more.
Debating the Sharing Economy
Is this sharing’s big breakthrough? Or business as usual?
Cultivating Progress with Paul Hawken
Hear Paul discuss corporate social responsibility, the evolution of the open-source and sharing economy movements, and how communication technology has transformed global human interaction.
ShareHub: at the Heart of Seoul’s Sharing Movement
Supported by the municipal government and embedded in numerous parts of everyday life in Seoul, the Sharing City project has proven to be an inspiration to city leaders, entrepreneurs, and sharing enthusiasts around the world.
The return of Occupy London: this time it’s truly political
This week, stalwarts of the Occupy Democracy campaign in Britain are continuing to stand their ground in Parliament Square.
Solidarity Economy Organizing in the Wake of Mike Brown
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots organization that has taken the lead in organizing the community around the Mike Brown case, systemic racism and building a solidarity economy in St. Louis through a new project called Solidarity Economy St. Louis.
#MapJam 2.0 to Put the New Economy on the Map!
This October, the Sharing Cities Network will launch the Second Annual Global #MapJam to bring activists together in cities around the world to connect the dots and map: grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons.
The Fabulous Future of P2P Economics, Commerce and Democracy
One thing everyone I met has in common is a desire to create a new world order, a new way of creating, connecting and being which is beyond the market, beyond ownership, growth and capitalism.
Sharing Activists Reveal Plan to Turn Los Angeles into Sharing Mecca
As a founding member of the Sharing Cities Network (SCN), Shareable interviewed Arroyo Sustainable Economies Organization (ASECO) to get the scoop on their recently released plan to create Share LA.
Sharing as the new common sense in a post-growth world
We need to talk a lot more about sharing as a way to radically reframe the post-growth debate, argues a recent report from the Green House.
Crowdfunding and Ownership in the Sharing Economy
What would…our sensibilities regain, if sustainable local food projects matched the design of ownership and control to the sense of fit and appropriateness of each place the project were implemented?
