When our parents graduated from college, the bachelor’s degree was a coveted badge of honor. It gave applicants instant cred (and usually a larger paycheck) no matter what the job. Read more »
Pat yourself on the back, engaged Internet user: a new Pew study has found that you are more likely to be active in some kind of voluntary group or organization. Read more »
To say the world has changed between the year 2000 and 2010 would be the understatement of the decade, dare I say even the century (thus far). Read more »
Perhaps no company stands more for upper-middle class American conformity than Ikea. The Swedish furniture company offers the simulation of both thrift and style, the Holy Grail combo of mass-market consumer product qualities. Read more »
On Monday November 8, SAP Labs Palo Alto hosted Future Salon with Catherine Austin Fitts, Founder and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC, and former Assistant Secretary of Housing for the Federal Housing Commissioner during t. Read more »
Here are the links from around the web this week we at Shareable thought you might enjoy. Click though and share your own links in the comments section. Read more »
Shareable was inspired in part by the viral video, The Story of Stuff, which shows the destructiveness of our consumer economy. Now just a couple years after it was released, there's many voices telling the story of sharing. Read more »
Finding a new home for unwanted media reveals a significant sharing inefficiency. Anyone who has urgently foisted unwanted books or CD's on reluctant friends prior to a cross-country move is familiar with the problem. Read more »
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