Micro-finance Meets the Solidarity Economy

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The Working World provides innovative micro-financing to democratically owned co-ops in Argentina, Nicaragua and the United States, and they hope to transform the way micro-lending is practiced. Read more »

Crowdfunding for Gamers, Beer-Makers, Sleep-Walkers and Sharers

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What’s more shareable than crowdfunding? Crowdfunding shareable projects, of course. Here are five campaigns that support sharing, open-source design, collaboration, community and beer. Read more »

How to Earn $1000s as a Micro-entrepreneur Starting Now

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There’s never been a better time to earn extra cash in your spare time. A number of easy-to-use money-earning Internet platforms enable ordinary people to become Internet entrepreneurs instantly. Read more »

Wall Street Journal Cold Shoulders Co-ops

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A new report demonstrates that the Wall Street Journal systematically ignores the Solidarity Economy. Read more »

Six Operational Advantages of Worker Cooperatives

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Worker's Cooperatives are not only democratic and empowering, they are also viable business models with distinct advantages over normal for-profit businesses. Read more »

The Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade

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The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) helped get the UN to recognize the importance of coops to resilient local economies by making 2012 The International Year of the Cooperative. With 2012 coming to a close, the ICA releases a roadmap for the cooperative decade. Read more »

Lessons from Microfinance for the Sharing Economy

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At first glance, microfinance and the sharing economy have little in common. A closer look reveals many similarities and lessons the sharing economy could learn. Read more »

A Community Driven Strike: Walmart's Black Friday

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A widely distributed, web-organized Black Friday strike at Walmart brought new forms of community organization to the fore. Read more »

Lessons for Building a Co-operative Movement

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Below is my first post here at Shareable. I originally posted it at my main blogging site, Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter. I plan on posting a series of interviews here as well as other things. Read more »

Adam Werbach Launches yerdle on Black Friday with 10,000 Free Items

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Adam Werbach, environmentalist and sustainability innovator, launches sharing service yerdle today, Black Friday, the biggest shopping of the year, to highlight the advantages of sharing over shopping. Read more »
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