Shareable: Sharing by design

How to Start a Tool Library
Tool lending libraries wanted to help spread the concept everywhere. So they created resources to help you start a tool library of your own.
What Happens When Coworking Spaces Stop Competing?
It's natural to want to protect one's turf but competition doesn't make sense for an industry based on collaborating with those around you.
A Free Beginner's Guide to the Sharing Economy
A new Guide to Sharing offers primers on community swaps, local lending, sharing time and skills, and starting a co-op.

DataKind's Vision of a Data-Driven Social Change Movement

By Paul M. Davis

| 05.16.12, 1:32pm | Comments (0)

The Chicago DataDive connected social organizations and geeks to build a civic data community to create lasting social change.

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Playborhoods: Placemaking for Kids

By Neal Gorenflo

| 05.13.12, 9:38am | Comments (10)

Childhood has been enclosed. Time to re-establish the play commons and rescue our kids from boredom, obesity and depression.

Cartoon

Reapplying at the Tower Door

By Jenna Brager

| 05.10.12, 11:13am | Comments (1)

Last year I drew a comic for Shareable, chronicling the emotional turmoil of getting rejected from PhD programs, and my conclusion that I don't need permission to do the work I love. Now there's a new, unexpected twist in the plot.

open gov

When Bad Data Happens to Good Hackers

By Matthew Hall

| 05.08.12, 4:40am | Comments (0)

In a report from Transparency Camp 2012, Matthew Hall on why gov 2.0 apps are only as good as the data they're built on.

Activism

Will Revolt for Couch

By Malcolm Harris

| 05.07.12, 1:04pm | Comments (1)

When I was in college a few years ago, I was part of a reborn activist organization called Students for a democratic Society. In the 60's SdS was a central student group for the white student left.

transportation

Hover Car Concept Hints At Crowdsourcing Of The Future

By Beth Buczynski

| 05.16.12, 12:55pm | Comments (0)

The process used to imagine tomorrow's cars, rather than their actual design, may hold important clues about the future of the manufacturing industry.

public policy

Cooperative Leaders Meet with White House

By Ambika Kandasamy

| 05.15.12, 2:35pm | Comments (0)

While the current narrative of the American economy is far from hopeful, cooperatives are setting a more uplifting tone and are pressing their case as a fix for unemployment and reviving the middle class.

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Shareable's Top Biking Tips for National Bike Month

By Kelly McCartney

| 05.15.12, 1:22pm | Comments (0)

Get your pedals turning – May is National Bike Month. At Shareable, biking is a hot topic every month. Here are some of our best bike-related articles.

Social Media

Birthday Eyes: A Twitter Fairytale

By Malcolm Harris

| 05.15.12, 12:07pm | Comments (0)

It's not a stretch to say the tweet is a new poetic form, I would go so far as to say it's the dominant form of contemporary poetry. A writer can go from unknown to internet-famous with a handful of precisely chosen words.

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