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How to Glean for Good

By Sarah Henry

05.07.12, 7:57am Comments (0)

Gleaning for good by harvesting unwanted produce and distributing the bounty to the food insecure is an increasingly popular humanitarian effort. Read more »

Hacking New Tools for a New Economy

By Milicent Johnson

05.04.12, 2:14pm Comments (0)

Prototyping tools that could illuminate and make accessible invisible systems of currency in San Francisco's Mid Market -- city’s most dense, dynamic, and economically impoverished community. The hope is that if solutions can be created here, they could be replicated in similar communities all over the world. Read more »

Backyard Farm [VIDEO]

By Malcolm Harris

05.04.12, 1:14pm Comments (0)

In this short video, a young midwesterner named Martina finds herself working a digital job in a small space in New York. Read more »

A Free Beginner's Guide to the Sharing Economy

By Paul M. Davis

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 »

This Week in Sharing

By Malcolm Harris

05.03.12, 12:36pm Comments (0)

Harvard and MIT have teamed up to give online college classes some brand-name style with "edX." Surprisingly, the name was not already registered by an adult site. Read more »

Almere Oosterwold, a Vision of Collaborative DIY Urban Design

By Paul M. Davis

05.02.12, 6:04pm Comments (0)

Can a process as complex as urban planning go DIY? Dutch architecture company MVRDV is betting it can with a development built on the principle of "do-it-yourself urbanism." Read more »

ReUseIt: Designing a Sharing Service for Teens

By Judy, Heminsley

05.01.12, 9:06am Comments (0)

Kim Dowd details her user-centered process to design a service that encourages sharing among teens. Read more »

Knowledge Sharing from the Artist’s Perspective

By Michael Kranixfeld and Marleen Wolter

04.30.12, 2:16pm Comments (0)

As soon as we stop thinking of knowledge as a truth but rather as a performance created with unique people every time, we understand how important the artist’s perspective is on knowledge sharing. Read more »

Australia's Garage Sale Trail on Tap for May 5

By Kelly McCartney

04.30.12, 2:02pm Comments (0)

Two years ago, a new twist was added to the springtime garage sale ritual and the Garage Sale Trail was blazed. This year's Trail happens on May 5. Read more »

How Required Parking Harmed Cities & How to Fix It

By Todd Jersey

04.30.12, 8:29am Comments (0)

Few ideas turned public policy have done more harm to urban centers than municipal codes requiring minimum off-street parking spaces for all building projects. Read more »