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How to Be a Carfree Family

11.11.09, 7:48am Comments (16)

Tired of paying car insurance, sitting in traffic jams, and guzzling too much gas? Do you never want to dig your car out of another snowstorm?
Perhaps your family already cut down from two cars to one, but taking the carfree step seems impossi. Read more »

Imagine a Minimalist Reality

By Everett Bogue

03.18.10, 1:31pm Comments (16)

For the last six months I've been involved in an interesting experiment: what if I lived with less than 100 things and started to live and work from anywhere?

In August of 2009, I quit my job and jumped on a plane to Portland Oregon. Read more »

A Circle of Gifts

By Charles Eisenstein

11.01.10, 12:37pm Comments (16)

Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is "community. Read more »

What Things Need to be More Shareable?

By Jeremy Adam Smith

01.06.10, 1:24pm Comments (16)

"One of top things you can do to make your life a bit greener is cut down on stuff," writes Matthew McDermott at Treehugger. "Making it more difficult is that some of the things that are really useful only get used every so often... Read more »

Social Media Isn't Changing the World, It's Creating a New One

By Neal Gorenflo

10.12.10, 3:51pm Comments (16)

Blogs have been a twitter about Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article last week slamming those who believe social media can revolutionize activism. Read more »

The Guy Who Worked For Money

By Benjamin Rosenbaum

07.12.10, 5:00am Comments (16)

Nera waited for Malka in the big outer living room of 534a.tower5.loverslump.frankfurt.de -- Jörg's place. It had been six months since Nera was last here. Four months ago, she'd forced herself to stop watching and commenting. Read more »

A Coworkers Guide to Slaying Procrastination

By Maria Grusauskas

01.31.13, 1:00pm Comments (15)

From the kitchen table to a shared office space: a freelance writer blogs about her transition into the more hopeful frontier of coworking. Read more »

Destination Coworking in Bali with 10 Entrepreneurs

By Chelsea Rustrum

07.23.12, 10:15am Comments (15)

Chelsea Rustrum shares an inside look at how she created Startup Abroad, an experiment in destination coworking launching next month in Bali. Read more »

A Factory in Every Home

By Neal Gorenflo

08.18.10, 10:25am Comments (15)

We've come a long way since Herbert Hoover promised "a chicken in every pot." Today we're on the verge of a factory in every home thanks to the RepRap, an open hardware 3D printer that is designed to replicate itself. Read more »