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The Get Lost Generation

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08.17.11, 12:22pm Comments (2)
The "Lost Generation" of today isn't lost in a morass of sex, art, booze, and politics, but rather can’t find a path through the haze of economic insecurity and impending ecological catastrophe. The introduction to Share or Die by editor Malcolm Harris. Read more »

Changing Models of Ownership: Part I

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02.08.11, 10:11am Comments (6)
Claro Partners' project Changing Models of Ownership and Value Exchange sought to understand how the concept of ownership and its transfer have changed – and are changing – in recent years. Read more »

What So-Called Slums Can Teach American Cities

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09.07.10, 8:50pm Comments (9)
What if there were a better way of living? A way that was more environmentally sound, more economical, more conducive to the building of community, and didn't require huge monetary investments? What if this new method of existence was already vis. Read more »

Real Girl Talk: Is Remix Culture A White Spin on Mixtapes?

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11.17.10, 5:45pm Comments (11)
Popular music has always had an ambivalent relationship with American law and order, so it's unsurprising that the mash-up DJ Girl Talk has become a living example of what stringent intellectual property law makes impossible. Read more »

Four Degrees of Sharing

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09.16.09, 5:12pm Comments (10)
Sharing is a big deal these days. Sharing is a growth industry, a new field of study and of practice; it presents a realm of career opportunities, a new way of life, and a concept around which we are restructuring our world. Read more »

Innovation Study: Food and Digital Connectivity

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02.18.10, 5:21pm Comments (3)
Fast Company recently selected "The 8 Biggest Kitchen Innovations of the Last Decade." While a number were—predictably—devices, 2 of the 8 selections were Web-based solutions (the epicurious iPhone app and freshdirect.com). Read more »

The Real Good Chair Experiment

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01.08.10, 12:55pm Comments (3)
Blu Dot Studio put 25 of their chairs on the streets of Manhanttan, and then followed the chairs through a combination of GPS and video surveillance as people picked them up and took them home--which, by the way, the public could follow in real time . Read more »

The Slow Homes Manifesto (Part One)

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11.16.09, 11:15am Comments (14)
I recently drove through Lakewood, a city 10 miles south of Los Angeles, just to see for myself what it looked like. Read more »

Students Challenged to Rethink Materialism

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04.23.13, 10:42am Comments (2)
Students at Ohio Wesleyan University held Green Week recently with sharing as a focus, and minds and lives were changed for good. Read more »

Collaborative Funding Skyrocketed In 2011. Will 2012 Top It?

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02.23.12, 12:23pm Comments (4)
Mainstream media is taking a lot more notice of the sharing economy lately, and true to form they want the hard facts on how big sharing really is. Here's an overview of collaborative consumption venture fundings in 2011 with a 2012 outlook. Read more »

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