Sacramento’s Library of Things Shares More than Books
What if the next time you needed a sewing machine, or screen printer, or even a GoPro camera, you just went down to your public library and borrowed it?
sharing economy
Where Next for the Sharing Economy Debate?
As social and environmental crises continue to escalate, it seems increasingly unlikely that the sharing economy will lead the way to a more sustainable future – unless it actively challenges the power structures that maintain an unjust status quo.
How to Put an End to the Urban Commons and “Sharing” Once and For All
The widespread and improper use of “commons” and “sharing” by politicians and companies is leading us towards widespread disillusionment and possibly a very sad decade.
Making Networked Sharing Socially Beneficial, Not Just Predatory and Profitable
If we can agree in advance about what constitutes a socially respectful marketplace – and what constitutes a predatory free-riding on the commonweal – we’ll all be a lot better off.
Rebooting Work: Programming the Economy for the People
As we wrestle with the bounty of productivity as well as the displacement of employees by digital technologies, we may consider the greater operating system on which they’re all running.
The Top Ten P2P Trends of 2015
There is now a palette of p2p-based solutions that can be used by those that are serious about reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources and commons, and livelihoods around such engagements.
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and its Main Thinkers
We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras
Imagining the (R)Urban Commons in 2040
Commoning is beyond the just “being together”. In fact, it may be the only way in which we can systemically confront the dysfunctions and corruptions of the market/state system that now govern us.
How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Real Sharing Economy
We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now.
Ten Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics
What the world and humanity, and all those beings that are affected by our activities require is a mode of production, and relations of production, that are “free, fair and sustainable” at the same time.
The Sharing Economy is Booming in Helsinki: Here’s Why
Helsinki is, in many respects, a sharer’s paradise.
Ex-cons at LA Kitchen Feed the Hungry with Food Waste
“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.”
