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The Empowerment Plan: Social Innovation Style in Detroit

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Veronika Scott’s Detroit Empowerment project has the dual purpose of making warm coats for the homeless population, while also helping to train and employ them. Read more »

Project M Celebrates 10 Years of Thinking Wrong

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In 2003, designer John Bielenberg founded Project M to teach young people to drive positive change by thinking wrong. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Guides to Open Source (Almost) Everything

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This Week in Sharing offers up guides to all sorts of open source needs, from education to mapping to, yes, the zombie apocalypse. Read more »

Co-designing OuiShare Fest: A Collaborative Experiment

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When OuiShare decided to create an international collaborative economy festival it was only natural to make it participatory with its community at the center. What does a co-design process look like? Read more »

Tiny Houses Make a Big Difference

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The small -- tiny, even -- house movement serves society on multiple levels. Because the structures take up less space, they also use fewer resources. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: The Top Eight 'Top' Lists of 2012

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It's the end of the year, time to look back at the previous 12 months and survey both the damage and progress that we have made with some shareable summations. Read more »

Design for Shared Consumption

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With the rise of collaborative consumption, the narrative about ownership and use is shifting, so designers are exploring design for shared consumption. Read more »

A New Book Explores Post-growth Design Principles

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In a post-growth world, we must consider the design implications of organizing principles like human and environmental health; infrastructure and maintenance; and social networks. Read more »

Utilihab: The Modular Open Source Home

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Utilihab utilizes aluminum T-slot studs from the world of industrial automation as the basis for the open source home. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Creative Destruction!

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Open Source 2.0, a $9 cardboard bicycle, a gift economy incubator, and much more in the new and reformulated This Week in Sharing. Read more »
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