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A Community Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff

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10.12.10, 10:00pm Comments (15)
Following last week's excerpt of Douglas Rushkoff's new book Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for the Digital Age, we follow with a Q&A with the author, featuring questions from Shareable's community of contributors and advisors. Read more »

Collaborative Consumption is Overrated

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01.31.13, 10:12am Comments (14)
Collaborative consumption is incredibly promising, but it doesn't have the potential to create high-skilled livelihoods for users like the maker movement. A participant in both movements shares his personal experience. Read more »

Is Social Entrepreneurship the Rich Saving the Poor?

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10.31.12, 8:59am Comments (14)
In this opinion piece, social entrepreneur Martin Montero shares his view that social entrepreneurship is about engaging communities in solving their own problems from the bottom up. Read more »

A Life of Abundance Without Money

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09.18.12, 8:30am Comments (14)
For most, a life without money seems inconceivable. But an emerging tribe of people living a moneyless lifestyle are completely embracing the abundance of a gift economy. Read more »

Can Trust Systems Build a New Economy From Ruin?

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09.04.12, 7:07pm Comments (14)
The sharing economy offers a higher quality of life at dramatically lower economic and environmental cost. But in an economy where we share houses, cars, money, and work with strangers, how do we decide who to trust? Read more »

Kicking off a Year of Open Source Everything

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08.06.12, 9:47am Comments (14)
Berlin filmmaker Sam Muirhead is going completely open source for a year, from sneakers, to beer, to software. In his Year of Open Source column, Sam will reveal what works and what doesn't as he trailblazes an open source life. Read more »

There Is An Alternative

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02.29.12, 11:29am Comments (14)
Charles Eisenstein reviews David Graeber's magisterial new book Debt: The First 5000 Years Read more »

Airbnb Places Wake Up Call to Sharing Entrepreneurs

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08.04.11, 10:41am Comments (14)
What collaborative consumption services need to learn from the Airbnb fiasco. Read more »

Innovation Study 1: Food & Digital Connectivity

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04.27.10, 6:30am Comments (14)
Harnessing the rich detail, creativity, and individual relevance of personal narratives, Shareable.net and Latitude Research co-sponsored an innovation study to explore food information needs, information accessibility in decision-making contexts (e. Read more »

Do shared items have a shorter life span?

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08.10.11, 8:48pm Comments (14)
This question is a bit heretical but it's important: When we share items, does the increased wear & tear mean that the item wears out beyond repair and must be replaced sooner than if we didn't share it. Read more »

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