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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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, 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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