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This article was originally published on Shareable.net, in slightly abridged form.
What do you call a lawyer who helps people share, cooperate, barter, foster local economies, and build sustainable communities? That sounds like the beginning of …
The Sustainable Economies Law Center was recently featured in the East Bay Express, including an interview by Bernice Yeung with Janelle Orsi.
The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just …
This is great – a new book about the sharing movement will be released in just a few weeks: What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Check out their website, including a couple cool videos!
Car-sharing happens on many levels. Your friend borrows your car for a day; you and your neighbor agree to share equal ownership and use of one car; you and five neighbors and friends share ownership …
EcoSalon posted a nice piece today: “Sharing: It’s not just nice, it’s necessary.” I love the “rundown of the 15 coolest sharing concepts.”
Coincidentally, I know the journalist who wrote the piece, Vanessa Barrington, because we …
The weekend before last, I shared a “Cooperative Living and Sharing Brainstorm Booth” with Regenerative Real Estate at the incredible Bioneers Conference. Our booth featured a coffee table and chairs in a circle, and …
As writers, we are taught to “always avoid all awkward alliteration” and I find myself constantly worried that the letter “C” appears conspicuously, consecutively, and continuously in my sentences – community, cooperation, connection, common. …
Yesterday, I moderated a panel discussion and had many great conversations at the Festival for Grassroots Economies, where brilliant ideas seemed to be generated, on average, every 2 seconds. My mind is still spinning from …
