OuiShare: Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Economy

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An open network with members in cities around the world, OuiShare is taking the idea of collaborative community to the next level. Read more »

West Seattle Tool Library: Interview with Micah Summers

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With almost 1,000 members and growing, the West Seattle Tool Library has become one of the most successful community-led tool lending services in the US. Micah Summers takes us behind the scenes of this community success. Read more »

From Green New Deal to New Economy (Part 2)

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02.19.13, 10:33am Comments (0)
The push to transform our broken economy isn’t just about sharing; it isn’t even just about energy, public transit, and the other elements of the green economy. Read more »

A March, A Concert, A Cooperative

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A massive concert in Thessaloniki celebrates Greece's first worker-controlled factory Read more »

Study Shows Coworking is About Community

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02.18.13, 9:36am Comments (0)
Academic Clay Spinuzzi spent two years studying coworking in Austin, Texas. His study confirms what many coworking space owners already know, that the main service they provide is community. Well, at least in Austin. Read more »

Why GCUC has an Unconference

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02.15.13, 10:59am Comments (0)
In 2010, Liz Elam hadn't even heard of an unconference. But at the Coworking Unconference she met coworking leaders, got her questions answered, formed friendships and partnerships, and got fired up and inspired. And now she's the executive producer of the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. Read more »

Radical New Collaborations for Local Economies

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Trading Spaces is an integration strategy that challenges the idea that commercial local retail businesses and social projects should continue to seek sustainability separately. Instead, business and innovative social projects can view each other as mutually dependent rather than mutually exclusive or competitive. Read more »

5 Tips to Claim Your Identity in the Sharing Economy

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02.12.13, 10:41am Comments (3)
To participate in the sharing economy you need to trust strangers and they need to trust you. Use these tips to maximize the value of your identity in these peer-to-peer transactions and build trust quickly and sustainably. Read more »

Values and the Sharing Economy

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To have a better chance at long-term social impact, it's important for sharing economy advocates to emphasize social benefits of sharing over personal benefits, such as financial gain. Read more »

A New Era: From Occupation to Workers' Control

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After two plant shutdowns and two successful occupations, workers at the New Era Windows and Doors factory have transformed it to a worker's coop. Read more »
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