Tag: coops

A Free Beginner's Guide to the Sharing Economy

By Paul M. Davis

05.03.12, 4:51pm Comments (0)

A new Guide to Sharing produced by The Center for a New American Dream and Shareable offers primers on community swaps, local lending, sharing time and skills, and starting a co-op. Read more »

The Future Now: An Interview with David de Ugarte

By Neal Gorenflo

02.20.12, 12:14pm Comments (2)

Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation's Michel Bauwens interviews David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative. Read more »

Biketopia Exists!

By Mira Luna

02.14.12, 2:26pm Comments (3)

I like to think of utopia as the space where idealism meets reality. Over the years, I have found few radical social change projects that met reality without failure or conflict, especially within a capitalist economy. Read more »

Co-ops are Big: Charles Gould on the Int'l Year of the Co-op

By Jessica Reeder

02.13.12, 9:08am Comments (0)

Think you know what big business looks like? Think again. According to Charles Gould, co-ops are poised to be the fastest growing business model by 2020. Read more »

From Adversity Comes Opportunity: Shareable in 2011

By Paul M. Davis

12.30.11, 5:14pm Comments (1)

A look back at the issues, movements, innovations and change-makers featured on Shareable this year. Read more »

Fixing the Future, a Documentary about Building New Economies [VIDEO]

By Paul M. Davis

12.09.11, 1:28pm Comments (1)

An hour-long PBS documentary about communities building alternatives to an economy held together by complex financial instruments and baling wire. Read more »

Discussions on the Sharing Economy in the UK

By Melissa O'Young

12.09.11, 4:36am Comments (0)

A report from the Sharing Economy Innovation Workshop in London. Read more »

This Week in Sharing

By Malcolm Harris

11.20.11, 4:05pm Comments (0)

As Shareable wraps up our weekend in New York and everyone but me goes back to somewhere warm, we bring you these sharing links in the hope that you'll pass them on. Read more »

An Economy Turned Upside Down

By Mira Luna

08.15.11, 1:55pm Comments (12)

While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Read more »