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Against the Crisis: P2P Reindustrialization!

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05.15.12, 5:09am Comments (0)
"A paper can change the present if it allows people to see a new world at hand" says Natalia Fernández. Read more »

Repair Cafes Counter Consumerism with Fixer Movement

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05.14.12, 6:41am Comments (2)
At the community-based Repair Cafe in the Netherlands, folks bring broken items to be fixed by amateur and professional tinkerers alike at no charge. Read more »

Shareable's Top 'How to Share' Guides for Spring

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05.15.12, 10:29am Comments (0)
As you clean out your closets, prep your garden, and plan your summer activities, consider doing it all shareable-style with our most helpful guides. Read more »

How to Start a Tool Library

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05.09.12, 4:25pm Comments (3)
A group of tool lending libraries wanted to do more to spread the tool lending concept to neighborhoods everywhere. So they created incubator workshops, a discussion list, and a free starter kit. Perhaps all these resources will give you the confidence to start building a library of your own. Read more »

The New Sharing Economy

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12.24.10, 12:14pm Comments (9)
Technology is connecting individuals to information, other people, and physical things in ever-more efficient and intelligent ways. It’s changing how we consume, socialize, mobilize— ultimately, how we live and function together as a society. Read more »

Curvy Life: An Interview with Alan Moore

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04.13.12, 12:26pm Comments (0)
The P2P Foundation's Michel Bauwens and Shareable's Neal Gorenflo chat with Alan Moore, founder of the innovation consultancy firm SMLXL and author of the new book No Straight Lines: Making Sense of a Non-Linear World. Read more »

When Bad Data Happens to Good Hackers

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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. Read more »

Expanding the Sharing Market to Aid Economy & Planet

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05.09.12, 11:37am Comments (0)
Sharing products instead of just selling more of them is better for the planet. But how can these sharing economy services spread? Appealing to consumers' self-interests is part of the answer and can help to broaden the market. Read more »

A Free Beginner's Guide to the Sharing Economy

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05.03.12, 4:51pm Comments (0)
A new Guide to Sharing produced by The Center for a New American Dream and Shareable offers primers on community swaps, local lending, sharing time and skills, and starting a co-op. Read more »

A Path to Thriving: "Possess" Nothing, "Own" Everything

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01.03.12, 8:49pm Comments (4)
I’ve encountered a lot of talk about thriving lately. Everywhere I turn I am hearing that word: movies, meetings, online and personal conversation. It used to be that sustainable was sufficient. That word has now become inadequate. Read more »

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