Tag: collaboration

How to Create a Successful Collective

By Abby Quillen

04.12.10, 6:44am Comments (8)

Aprovecho is a 40-acre center 15 miles south of Eugene, Oregon dedicated to researching and teaching sustainable living practices and green skills.
Rosie Kirincic works there with six other staff members. She lives with four of them on-site. Read more »

Birth of Sharing Law

By Janelle Orsi

03.29.10, 7:13am Comments (12)

What do you call a lawyer who helps people share, cooperate, barter, foster local economies, and build sustainable communities?
That sounds like the beginning of a lawyer joke, but actually, it’s the beginning of new field of law practic. Read more »

No Panaceas! Elinor Ostrom Talks with Fran Korten

By Fran Korton

03.18.10, 1:36pm Comments (1)

This interview is cross-posted with permission from YES! Magazine.
Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics. For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. Read more »

Improvisational Theater as Complex Adaptive System

By Michelle James

03.11.10, 11:02am Comments (2)

I am in an improvisational theater performing group. We improvise full-length plays with nothing planned in advance. No structure. No outline. No character or plot development. Read more »

Human Touch: Distributed Problem Solving?

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.23.10, 12:05pm Comments (0)

Dacher Keltner is the director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where I worked for three years (and a contributor to Shareable.net). Read more »

Mixed Dominance

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.18.10, 2:11pm Comments (0)

My five-year-old son Liko has one developmental issue. Read more »

Bill and Ted's Excellent Time Travel Infographic

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.16.10, 1:25pm Comments (0)

We're told by physicists that travel back in time is probably impossible. But that hasn't stopped people from imagining time travel scenarios. Read more »

Crowdfunded Filmmaking

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.09.10, 9:08am Comments (0)

The Biracy Project is "a social experiment in crowdfunded filmmaking." Like Hollywood studios, "we bring together brilliant people to make top-quality movies. Unlike studios, we’re run by fans, not a handful of executives. Read more »

The Power Paradox

By Dacher Keltner

02.08.10, 10:09am Comments (2)

It is much safer to be feared than loved, writes Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince, his classic 16th-century treatise advocating manipulation and occasional cruelty as the best means to power. Read more »