Contributors

Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Read more »

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

Janelle Orsi is co-author of Read more »

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jay Walljasper is co-editor of OnTheCommons.org. He is author of the forthcoming book What We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons as ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Amy and Marc Vachon are the hosts of Read more »

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Journalist Melinda Blau is the co-author of

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A born East Coaster turned Midwest transplant, Constantine "Costa" Koutsoutis likes coffee, comics, and music. He occasionally tolerates the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of

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 ...

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

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

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

Alex is a lawyer, occasional activist and bicycle commuter

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Amy Hamilton lives in Asheville, N.C. where she works with the Smokey Mountain Hollers Cooperative, an alternative currency in development. Her ...

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

Cathy Tao is the international affairs chairwoman for TourBoarding.com

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

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

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

Drew has been driving innovation in both the for-profit and nonprofit worlds as an entrepreneur, advisor, investor and nonprofit volunteer ...

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

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 ...

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

Charles is the author of Ascent of Humanity, he's currently at work on a book about sacred economics and writes a monthly essay for Reality ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

I am Franco-American (uh-oh...) collective intelligence, sustainability & incremental innovation enthusiast.

I have a J.D. on how ...

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

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 ...

Staff Writer, Public Banking Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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: ...

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

Currently Head of Sustainable ...

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

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

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

Sarah Brooks is a design strategist and Director of Social Innovation at Hot Studio in San Francisco. ...

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

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

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

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

My professional biography is at Read more »

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

I am most interested in creating ...

A curious observer, networker, and architect, I design spaces and experiences where the people become an active participant in shaping the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A marketer using her marketing skills to encourage more sustainable behaviours. Follow her on Read more »

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

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

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

Ambika is a freelance writer interested in reporting on global development issues. Her articles have appeared in the San Francisco Public Press ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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