Contributors

Jeremy Adam Smith

Jeremy Adam Smith is the editor who helped launch Shareable.net. He's the author of Read more »

Neal Gorenflo

Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, ...

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Liz Kofman and Astri Von Arbin Ahlander

We’re two twenty-somethings who joined the real world armed with diplomas worth a combined half million dollars from Middlebury ...

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Chris Carlsson

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Max Gladwell

Max Gladwell is the nexus of social media and green living. It is Web 2.0 with a purpose. It is ...

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Janelle Orsi

Janelle Orsi is the Director of the national nonprofit Sustainable Economies Law Center, ...

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Emily Doskow

Emily Doskow is an author, attorney, and sharer in the San Francisco Bay Area. With Janelle Orsi, she is co-author of  Read more »

Chris Messina

Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He also co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space ...

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Jen Angel

Jen Angel has been a writer and media activist for over 15 years. She co-founded and published Clamor Magazine, an award-winning ...

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Michael Stoll

Michael Stoll is project director of the San Francisco Public Press ( Read more »

Karen Solomon

Karen Solomon is the author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It (Ten Speed Press, 2009) and The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to San ...

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Simon Hodgson

Simon Hodgson has been a burger-flipper, tomato-picker, technology reporter, movie listings editor and freelance writer. His latest career is ...

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Tom Savage

Tom Savage is the cofounder and managing partner of Bright Green Talent, which matches jobseekers to green employers. He has started three ...

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Olivia Boler

Olivia Boler's first novel, Year of the Smoke Girl, was published in 2000 by Dry Bones Press, and her latest short fiction appears in the ...

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Claire Kessler-Bradner

Claire Kessler-Bradner was born is San Francisco, CA and still calls the city home. She is a life-long artist who grew up in a print shop, and ...

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Aaron M. Renn

Aaron M. Renn is The Urbanophile, an opinion-leading urban success strategist and writer. He is on a ...

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David Hodgson

I want to leave the world a slightly better place than I found it. I like to help people see things in new ways.

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Maria Armoudian

Maria Armoudian is a singer and songwriter, graduate student in political science, radio host at KPFK in Los Angeles, and a former commissioner ...

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Terry Bisson

Terry Bisson is the author of seven novels: WYRLDMAKER (Pocket, 1981); TALKING MAN (Arbor House, 1987), a World Fantasy Award nominee; FIRE ON ...

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Alex Dixon

Alex Dixon is an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and an editorial assistant for Greater Good magazine.

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Angela and Dorea Vierling-Claassen

Angela and Dorea Vierling-Claassen live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two children, where both are mathematicians. Together, they ...

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Meg Wachter

Meg Wachter is a vertically challenged, music-savvy photo nerd. She resides in Brooklyn, New York and works as a photographer and a retoucher. ...

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Abby Quillen

Abby Quillen is a freelance writer. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, son, two cats, and four chickens. She blogs about simple, ...

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Emilie Raguso

Emilie Raguso is a multimedia reporter in Oakland who focuses on issues of criminal justice, food and Oakland culture. She is passionate about ...

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Jay Walljasper

Jay Walljasper writes and speaks about He is editor of OnTheCommons.org and author of All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons and The ...

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Bosco

I am Bosco. I study proteins as a postdoc in San Francisco. I write about performances, programming, books, science, writing, pictures and ...

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Sara Stout

Sara Stout, a founding member of both Shift and the World Carfree Network, has been an advocate of social equity and sustainable mobility for ...

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Dawn Friedman

I have been writing professionally since 1999 and my clips appear in Salon.com (where my essay about my daughter’s adoption was chosen as an ...

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Danielle Davis

Danielle Davis is a writer in Los Angeles. So far she shares stories, clothes, scooter rides with her husband, and her patio with a lot of ...

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Keara Schwartz

Keara Schwartz is the founder of Share Some Sugar, an online service that finds someone in your neighborhood who is willing to lend you ...

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Gianmaria Franchini

Gianmaria Franchini lives in Oakland, California, and writes for SF Public Press.

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Silke Helfrich

Silke Helfrich is the primary author of CommonsBlog and the editor of three books, most ...

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Regan McMahon

Regan McMahon is a writer, book critic and video producer in Oakland. She worked at the San Francisco Chronicle for many years, where ...

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Shira Golding

I'm a queer, vegan filmmaker, writer and musician living in beautiful Ithaca, NY. I'm an organizer with Share Tompkins, a volunteer-run group ...

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Stephen Morgan

Stephen Morgan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Notre Dame. He is about to leap into the jaws of that monster called ...

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Sarah Chan

I am a piano teacher here in Edmonton. Married to a guy named Don. Have a baby named Dexter and a border terrier named Dougal. Riding a bike is ...

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Kathleen Webb

Kathleen Webb is the president and co-founder of HomeWork Solutions, which provides payroll and tax services to families employing household ...

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Amy and Marc Vachon

Amy and Marc Vachon are the hosts of Read more »

Aaron Arbuckle

Aaron Arbuckle is an associate with Architectural Nexus in Salt Lake City, Utah. An architect by day and a student of urban planning and social ...

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Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane is a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader. She is also the on-site manager of the Noe Valley Farmers’ Market, every ...

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Debbie Siegel

Debbie Siegel is a doctoral candidate studying developmental psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She is interested in how people use objects. Her ...

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Brigid McMahon

Brigid McMahon is a real estate lawyer in Newport Beach, CA, who grew up on TV and hasn't kicked the habit, but spends more time riding and ...

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Sophie Garrett

Sophie is the founder of yours2share which helps people to find suitable like-minded partners to share ...

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Mira Luna

Mira Luna is the Organizing Director and writer for Shareable.net. She is a long time social and environmental justice activist, community ...

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David Bollier

David Bollier is the editor of OntheCommons.org; activist and writer about the commons; author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, ...

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Mike Sinclair

Mike Sinclair is an architectural and fine art photographer living in Kansas City, Missouri. His photographs are frequently published in the ...

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Jesse Taggert

Jesse is the part time manager of Citizen Space, a coworking space in San Francisco. She works as an independent consultant offering ...

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Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology and faculty director and founder of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. He studies the ...

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Joseph Prichard

Joseph Prichard is a Los Angeles based freelance designer, typographer, and bon vivant. His practice includes design for print, environmental ...

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Bernice Yeung

A former staff writer for SF Weekly who has also worked as an editor at California Lawyer magazine, Bernice’s work has ...

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Lisa Jervis

Lisa Jervis's official bio makes her sound far more official than she actually is. She is the founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist ...

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Justin Kemerling

Justin Kemerling is working toward becoming a community activist designer with creative collaboration focused on positive, progressive change ...

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EngineerScotty

EngineerScotty is a software engineer and part-time transportation geek from the Portland, Oregon area. He is a frequent commenter on the blog ...

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Mark Hogan

Mark moved to London, England from San Francisco last year and is originally from the Buffalo, New York area. While in California, he completed ...

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Everett Bogue

Everett Bogue is the author of The Art of Being Minimalist and blogs at Far Beyond The Stars

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Jen Burke Anderson

Jen Burke Anderson is a writer, thinker, and activist obsessed with media, cultural democracy, common values, and the impact of ideas on ...

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Fran Korton

Fran Korten, YES! Magazine's publisher, spent 20 years with the Ford Foundation making grants to support community management of water and ...

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Francisco Santa Maria

Francisco Santa Maria and his twin brother Felipe launched the website Regala Tu Cumpleaños--or Give Your Birthday, Read more »

Evan Schoepke

Artist, innovator, designer, writer, videographer, and permaculturist.

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Leilani Clark

Leilani is a staff writer at the North Bay Bohemian, an alternative weekly that covers Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties. Her writing has ...

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Jessica DeGroot

Jessica DeGroot is one of the nation's leading figures in the work/life field. Passionately committed to educating others about work and family ...

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Project for Public Spaces

Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger ...

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Wolfgang Hoeschele

Born in Germany and having grown up in Thailand, Korea, and Greece, Wolfgang Hoeschele pursued his higher education in the US, culminating in a ...

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Dan DeLisi

Dan DeLisi, AICP, is a Principal of a Planning and Civil Engineering firm with offices in Southwest and Central Florida. He has a comprehensive ...

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Louise Crabtree

Louise Crabtree is a research fellow in the University of Western Sydney's Urban Research Centre. She completed a PhD on urban sustainability, ...

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Robin Chase

Robin Chase is founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She also founded and leads Meadow Networks, a consulting firm that ...

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Melinda Blau

Journalist Melinda Blau is the co-author of

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Jonathan Dugan

Jonathan Dugan is the founder and president of ClearBits. Previous to this he worked as a consultant providing business strategy and technical ...

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Paul DeMaio

Paul DeMaio is a long-time proponent of bikesharing and founder of MetroBike LLC - an organization which consults on the creation of ...

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a ...

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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Salon.com, and Asimov’s ...

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Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of ...

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Micki Krimmel

Micki Krimmel is the founder of NeighborGoods.net a community where you can save and earn money by sharing stuff with your neighbors. Why buy ...

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Allison Arieff

Allison Arieff is the Pepsi Refresh ambassador for food and shelter and a Shareable.net editorial advisor. She also writes the “By Design” ...

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Constantine Koutsoutis

Writer, occasional cartoonist, teacher.

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Laura Forlano

Laura Forlano is a writer, researcher and consultant based in New York City. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Human Computer ...

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Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling is an Texas-based science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a design and Net culture theorist. His ...

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Chris Arkenberg

Chris Arkenberg is co-founder of Augmented Reality Development Camp, strategic adviser to Hukilau, and a visiting researcher at Institute for ...

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Steve Clift

Steven Clift is a founder of E-Democracy.Org in 1994 and served as Board Chair through 2008. He is an online strategist on the use of the ...

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Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of

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Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders writes about science fiction for io9.com, and she’s hard at work on a fantasy novel. You can find her work in the ...

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Jack Graham

Jack Graham is an interactive producer and software business analyst. His clients and employers have been primarily in the travel, publishing, ...

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Ben Jervey

Ben Jervey is a Contributing Editor and Planet Ambassador to the Pepsi Refresh Project and author of

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Lauren Anderson

Lauren Anderson is a writer and Project Director, building the movement of Collaborative Consumption.

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Alex Sugerman-Brozan

Alex is a lawyer, occasional activist and bicycle commuter

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Stephanie Smith

I’m an architectural designer, social entrepreneur and author interested in alternative communities, radical economics and post-digital ...

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Annalee Newitz

I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first ...

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Kyla Fullenwider

Kyla Fullenwider has directed public art projects with the City of New York, pop-up community centers with GOOD, and street food adventures ...

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Kelly McCartney

I'm a lover of nutritional healing, indie music, creative solutions, progressive thought, comparative religions, wandering, wondering, and my ...

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Regina Winkle-Bryan

Regina Winkle-Bryan is a Barcelona-based freelance writer and photographer. When not eating tapas and exploring Europe, she is tending her ...

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Alice C. Chen

Alice C. Chen developed her storytelling skills while exploring the Amazon Rainforest as an undergraduate at Stanford University. She went on ...

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Pavlina Ilieva and Kuo Pao Lian

Pavlina Ilieva and Kuo Pao Lian are the founders of the PI.KL design group. They have won numerous awards for their work on sustainable ...

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Lily Gershon

Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, I have been a traveler, teacher, writer and musician living in NY, NJ, California and Hawaii. Settled now in ...

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Miriam Lueck Avery

Miriam Lueck Avery is a research manager in the Health Horizons program at the Institute for the Future, researching a broad range of topics ...

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Cathy Tao

Cathy Tao is the international affairs chairwoman for TourBoarding.com

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Mineko Brand

Mineko is interested in issues relating to social justice, underserved populations and local grassroots movements. She has a B.A. from UC ...

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Geoff Manaugh

Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. He is bldgblog on Twitter.

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Astri Von Arbin Ahlander

Astri von Arbin Ahlander is Co-Founder of The Lattice Group ( Read more »

Andrew Price

Andrew Price is Senior Web Editor at GOOD. He lives in Venice Beach.

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Charles Eisenstein

Charles is the author of Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics and writes a monthly essay for Reality Sandwich. He is on the faculty at ...

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Matthew Slater

My theology degree did not equip me to live in this world. I travelled and tried my hand at teaching and oily engineering, before immersing ...

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Lisa Gansky

Lisa is, at heart, a marketect and "impact junky" with a strong interest in breaking the edges of formerly happy business models and bringing ...

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Paul Citarella

Technologist turned entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Jointli.com, an online service that helps people set up and manage co-ownership of ...

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Esperanza Pallana

I grow food. I eat. I create. I share. In fact, I created farmfoodconnect.com so others can connect around growing food, eating, creating and ...

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Ziv Bar Ilan

Ziv Bar Ilan is the founder and CEO of Zoybar. Ziv directs the firm's design and business strategies, where he has pioneered techniques for ...

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Jerold Chinn

San Francisco native who covers transportation for the SF Public Press.

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Benita Matofska

Benita is founder and CEO of People Who Share.

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Cameron Neal

After finishing school in Charleston, SC and spending a few years in Santiago, Chile and Florianópolis, Brazil, Cameron has most recently lived ...

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Tim Devin

Tim Devin is a Boston artist who's interested in community, public space, making books, and giving things away for free. He's a member of the ...

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Rich Radka

Rich is a founding partner at Claro Partners in Barcelona, Spain. Claro's mission is to transform understanding into value for people and for ...

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Antonin Léonard

Antonin is an "all-things-collaborative" activist. He thinks that the collaborative movement and its principles have the power to rebuild trust ...

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Jeff Bennett

Jeff oversees all aspects of the swap.com business as the company's CEO and Director. Jeff has been an active digital citizen since the ...

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Genine Lentine

Genine Lentine’s chapbook Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes was published in 2010 by New Michigan Press. Another chapbook, ...

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Chris Haller

Chris Haller heads up Urban Interactive Studio (UIS), a technology consulting firm ...

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Jolene Torr

Jolene is a San Francisco-based writer interested in public spaces, sustainable cities, community, and the new food revolution. Covering the ...

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Erin Mercurio

Currently finishing up my senior year as a design student at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Post-graduation I'll be off to ...

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Richmond Grows

Our intention at Richmond Grows is to be a model for sustainability in our community while supporting other communities to create their own ...

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Jason Marsh

Jason Marsh is the editor-in-chief of Greater Good. He is also a co-editor of two anthologies of Greater Good articles: The Compassionate ...

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Juho Makkonen

Juho is the CEO & Co-Founder of a Finnish startup called Sharetribe. Sharetribe helps local communities (city neighborhoods, university ...

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Frances Beinecke

Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC. Under Frances's leadership, the organization has launched a new strategic campaign that sharply ...

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Jay Cousins

Co-founder of Open Design City (www.opendesigncity.de)
Sometime ...

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Liliana Holtzman

Liliana is an Art Director and Graphic Designer at RepairClinic.com. She is also a writer who shares her stories, musings and experiences on ...

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Mary Fallon

Mary Fallon is a co-founder of Itizen, a platform that allows anyone to attach digital content to physical objects with the use of QR codes. ...

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Michelle Shearer

The MamaBake concept was conceived of by Michelle Shearer, surfing Mama of two children and two parrots on the North Coast of NSW, Australia. ...

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Kelley Buhles

Kelley Buhles has worked in Philanthropic Services at RSF Social Finance since 2005. RSF Social Finance is non-profit financial services ...

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Booka Alon

Booka Alon is an active voice in the local Bay Area Food Justice and Urban Agriculture movement. Community organizer, event producer, kitchen ...

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Christopher Patz

I am an Australian, somewhat hesitant lawyer-to-be, currently working with refugee arrivals in settlement. After seeing the lively and ...

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Shabnam Anvar

I am Franco-American collective intelligence, sustainability & incremental innovation enthusiast.

I have a J.D. on how French 20th ...

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Katie Hurst

Hands-on type of gal. Former Executive Director for Gangplank, a collaborative workspace based in Arizona. Startup groupie and observer of ...

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Sarah Byrnes

Sarah Byrnes is the Economic Justice Organizer with the Project on Inequality and the Common Good at IPS. She is the organizer of the Common ...

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John David

Staff Writer, Public Banking Institute

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David Spero RN

I'm a nurse, author, teacher, and health coach.
60 y.o., living with multiple sclerosis for 30 years.
Happily married in an open ...

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Tim Hyer

Tim is most interested in how the intersection of business and design can lead to innovation and meaningful experiences for the ...

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OhSoWe

OhSoWe, a website for you, your neighbors, and your neighborhood. OhSoWe helps us all re-discover the things we can do with each other. ...

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Drew Little

Drew Little is the founder of a youth-driven, idea incubator co-op, The Illuminated Ventures Project (IllVP). ...

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Alexandra Carmichael

I direct CureTogether.com and QuantifiedSelf.com, mindfully unschool my two daughters, and love to quietly help people.

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Heather McLeod Grant

Heather McLeod Grant is a Senior Consultant at the Monitor Institute in their San Francisco offices. She is a the co-author of Forces for Good: ...

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Rachel Arnould

Co-Founder of the first Community Supported Agriculture system in a Parisian University (Sorbonne)

Currently Head of Sustainable ...

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SELC

The Sustainable Economies Law Center facilitates the growth of more sustainable, localized, and just economies, through education, legal ...

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Erica Etelson

Founder @Sharemore, author, mother, gardener, reuse fanatic

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Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Read more »

Sarah Brooks

Sarah Brooks is a design strategist and Director of Social Innovation at Hot Studio, where she joined in 2011 to build a practice supporting ...

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Jason Roberts

Jason Roberts is a founder of the Better Block project which is a demonstration tool that temporarily revisions an area to show the potential ...

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Diane Emerson

Homeless by choice, so I can have more money for all my favorite causes, and travel and volunteer. Since Dec 2006.

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David de Ugarte

Spanish cyberpunk group (1989-2006) // Las Indias Cooperative Group 2002- tomorrow) // Some books in Spanish, Portuguese, Galician...

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Mabel Yoshimoto

Listia evangelist, collaborative consumer, green thinker, #1 fan of free stuff

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Sightline Institute

Sightline equips the Northwest’s citizens and decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to advance long-term ...

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Ramesh Srinivasan

Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor at UCLA in Design and Media/Information Studies, studies and participates in projects focused on how ...

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Seth Schneider

I'm Shareable's Online Community and Fundraising Director. My professional biography is at Read more »

Stephanie Co

I live in St. Louis and love the opportunity here for building community, creating, doing, and sharing.

I am most interested in creating ...

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Andrea Paoletti

Architect, entrepreneur, community developer and curious observer. I designs spaces and experiences where people become the actors of the ...

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Science for Citizens

ScienceForCitizens.net will bring together the millions of citizen scientists in the world; the thousands of potential projects offered by ...

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Caren Holzman

Based in London, Caren leads SustainAbility’s London team, addresses issues related to supply chain engagement, sustainable sourcing and ...

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Aaron Hanauer

Aaron Hanauer has been a city planner for the City of Minneapolis for five years, focusing primarily on historic preservation. He has a degree ...

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Sarah Henry

Sarah Henry is a freelance food writer based in Berkeley and the voice behind the blog Lettuce Eat Kale. A former staffer at the nonprofit ...

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Cheyenna Weber

Cheyenna Weber is an economic justice organizer and writer working to develop the solidarity economy in New York City. Originally from West ...

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Caroline Woolard

I'm a co-founder of two barter initiatives for the creative community: OurGoods.org and Trade School. I'm also a core member of SolidarityNYC, ...

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Genevieve DeGuzman

Genevieve is the co-founder and editor for Night Owls Press ( Read more »

Michael Johnson

1. Born in the panhandle of Texas in 1942 of an Irish lass and a Mississippi gentleman...Grew up deeply Catholic in a bible belt with a nurse, ...

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Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros

Michael Mehaffy is a strategic consultant in sustainable urban development, and a researcher, author and speaker. He is currently Sir David ...

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Joe Brewer

Joe Brewer is an innovation strategist who weaves together brilliant people and ideas to create integrated solutions across organizations. His ...

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Suresh Fernando and Joe Brewer

Suresh Fernando and Joe Brewer are the authors of The Progressive ...

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Suresh Fernando

Suresh Fernando is a visionary, a strategist, a leader and a project manager whose breadth and depth of analysis and understanding of the way ...

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Joseph Jackson

Joseph is a philosopher, entrepreneur, and activist in the Open Science Movement. He created the Open Science Summit to promote the transition ...

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Neil Powell

As a designer and executive creative director, Neil has extensive experience on brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, BMW North America, Jim ...

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Michael Karnjanaprakorn

Prior to Skillshare, Michael led the product team at Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook. And before that, he developed products and ...

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alpha lo

Alpha Lo is co-editor and co-author of the Open Collaboration Encyclopedia. He also helped to found the Gift Circle Network.

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Carolyn Elliott

Carolyn Elliott is a low-cost life coach and the author of Awesome Your Life: The Artist's Antidote to Suffering Genius. She teaches at the ...

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Russell Wallace

Russ is a co-founder of CivicSponsor and a proponent of greater citizen involvement ...

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Sharon Ede

Sharon is a sustainability ideas transmitter, writer and activist, from Adelaide, South Australia. She writes, collects, and shares stories on ...

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Craig Edelman

Executive Vice President & Founder Craig Edelman is the go-to development guru for Read more »

Ron J. Williams

Ron J. Williams (aka @ronjdub) is the CEO & Co-Founder of SnapGoods.com. Once a rapper, a boxer, always a perennial math geek/inquisitive ...

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Shawn Williamson

Shawn Williamson is the ZERO WASTE guru for Shareable, and a Brooklin, Ontario-based Environmental Consultant who specializes in quantifying ...

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Greg Belvedere

I'm a former public librarian and the founder of Our Bookshelf, a DRM-Free Ebook Sharing Social Network.

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Eric Irvine

Program Manager at Lisa Gansky's Mesh Studios.

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Melissa O'Young

Founder of Let's Collaborate!, completed collaborative consumption thesis in 2011, Director of Marketing at futurethink, formerly worked with ...

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Megan Stielstra

Megan Stielstra is a writer, storyteller, and the Literary Director of Chicago’s ...

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Polly Carl and Vijay Mathew

As the director of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage,

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Maria Hadden and Josh Lerner

An Ohio native, Maria Hadden now lives in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood but considers herself a global citizen. She ...

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Ambika Kandasamy

Ambika is a freelance journalist who has reported on international development, human trafficking and local culture. Her articles have appeared ...

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Brad Smith

Recovering capitalist entrepreneur, active in voluntary simplicity, learning communities, and eldercare. Currently developing a community coop ...

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Brad Smith and Barbara Wishingrad

Barbara has worked as an herbalist, midwife, street artist, interpreter, massage therapist, and is currently the Program Manager of the Santa ...

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Madeleine Lansky

Madeleine Lansky, M.D. is a psychoanalytic child & adult psychiatrist and who teaches and practices in the San Francisco Bay Area.  A ...

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Magalie Bonneau-Marcil

Quebecois native based in northern California, Magalie produces and directs public interactive dance for social change including flash mobs. ...

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Liz Elam

It takes a certain kind of person to stand at the forefront of a movement, shaping the future of work itself while launching her own business, ...

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Donnie Maclurcan

Donnie Maclurcan PhD is Co-Founder of the Post Growth Institute – an international group inspiring and equipping people everywhere to explore ...

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John Ohab

Dr. John Ohab is a new technology strategist for the Public Web Program at the U.S. Department of Defense. He also hosts the department's ...

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Gary Horvitz

Gary is an activist, writer, facilitator, dreamer and poet, learning and living ways to occupy the heart and starve the beast.

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BJ Fogg, PhD

My expertise is creating systems to change human behavior. I call this “Behavior Design.”

I devote about 50% of my time to Stanford and ...

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Maurice Specht

Acadamic turned active community lover. Always on the look out for what is available in cities to connect people and help others make the city ...

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Gael Barney

Gael Barney is a mother of two and the creator of ShareMySpaces.com, a collaborative consumption website that connects individuals and ...

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Tal Beery

Tal Beery is an artist and activist in New York City.

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Daniel Schugurensky

Daniel Schugurensky is professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is ...

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Jef Cozza

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