Dwell magazine reports on a fascinating shareable project:
It is nearly impossible to talk about materials today without invoking a full-fledged powwow about life cycle analysis, carbon footprints, and potential upcycling. Read more »
Writing from the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, it has to be said at the outset that it is impossible to describe in depth everything going on here. Read more »
The Copenhagen Climate Conference is beginning in a week or so, and already Obama and his fellow political leaders have conceded that they will not make any meaningful agreements during this much-touted summit. Read more »
President Obama will be going to next month's international climate change meeting in Copenhagen--and Shareable.net will be there, too, with regular dispatches from contributor Chris Carlsson. Read more »
Last November, it seemed that the United States was moving in the direction of becoming a more commons-based society: that we were learning to better value and protect our shared resources for the benefit of all. Read more »
Boing Boing posted a thought-provoking interview with Asit Biswas, president of the Third World Centre for Water Management and winner of the 2006 Stockholm Water Prize. Biswas argues that there is no water shortage, as so many people say. Read more »
Shareable reader George Mokray writes: "The Cambridge MA group Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) has been organizing monthly weatherization barnraisings for over a year"--on October 24, in conjunction with the international 350. Read more »
In response to Neal Gorenflo's Shareable essay on green consumption, OZOlab head of strategy Rachel Botsman made a series of terrific points that I'd like to highlight:
When people engage with collaborative systems of usage &#. Read more »
I had an inspiring conversation with Nadine Weil of Heart of Green and Ecofabulous at Bioneers last weekend. I know Nadine from serving together on the board of Forest Ethics, though we don’t know each other much outside of that. Read more »
The Academy of Sciences in San Francisco—a marvel of sustainable architecture and engineering—contains a participatory exhibit called “What’s your carbon footprint?” which is part of a larger installation on climate chan. Read more »
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