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Shareable Readers Can Help NeighborGoods Win $50k!

By Micki Krimmel

08.03.10, 5:01pm Comments (1)

Before I get to begging for votes, I have to say thanks to our amazing members and the Shareable community! Thank you so much for making our national launch a huge success! It's been an amazing month. Read more »

How Lawyers Can Help Us to Share

By Bernice Yeung

08.03.10, 7:25am Comments (0)

Berkeley attorney and Shareable. Read more »

Google Reader's Social Rebirth

By Paul M. Davis

07.30.10, 8:47am Comments (0)

Many of us would love to be rid of our RSS readers, to replace them with the socially-curated news feeds we get from Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. Even when using the dominant client, Google Reader, browsing RSS feeds is problematic and frustrating. Read more »

LEED-ND: A Critical Look

By Will Watman

07.29.10, 3:42pm Comments (6)

The US Green Building Council (USGBC) launched a new certification program, LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), April of last year. Read more »

Lessons from Car-free Fire Island

By Alex Sugerman-Brozan

07.28.10, 9:35pm Comments (5)

The domination of the American landscape by the car is so complete that it is difficult to envision cities and towns where bicycles form more than a token part of the transportation backdrop. Read more »

How to Start a Critical Mass Ride

By Jeremy Adam Smith

07.28.10, 8:30am Comments (1)

I have extremely fond memories of riding in Critical Mass, when on the last Friday of every month hundreds of bicyclists take over the San Francisco streets. Read more »

Can a City Build a Better Version of Itself?

By Jeremy Adam Smith

07.27.10, 9:30am Comments (9)

San Franciscans tend to view the artificial Treasure Island as a blur on the bridge to the East Bay: the 400 acres have been semi-abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 1997.
That's about to change. Read more »

Treasure Island: A Case Study in Shareable Journalism

By Jeremy Adam Smith

07.27.10, 8:05am Comments (0)

I’ve always between interested in the dialogue between our ideals and our realities, and how that dialogue shapes our cities and buildings. Read more »

Why Electronics Recycling is Energy Stupid

By Neal Gorenflo

07.26.10, 12:01pm Comments (1)

Dominic Muren, TED Fellow and open-source manufacturing entrepreneur, explains why electronics recycling is energy stupid. And also why open hardware and modular design is energy smart. Read more »

The Downsides of a Shareable Life

By Corbyn Hightower

07.26.10, 11:32am Comments (5)

We made the choice to step off instead of stepping down, but is it an equally harmful sort of materialism, cruising the aisles of thrift stores in search of the perfect used bathing suit?
I've been observing the trappings of our era of aff. Read more »