Tag: DIY

How to Share a Cow

By Emilie Raguso

11.24.09, 7:56am Comments (0)

The deal went down by the Berkeley Marina. Matt Markovich handed over several hundred dollars to a man in a van and drove away 70 pounds heavier. Read more »

How to Share a Chicken (or Two)

By Abby Quillen

11.22.09, 2:56pm Comments (11)

Foster Road in Southeast Portland, Oregon is lined with wrecking yards, auto body shops, gas stations, cheap appliance stores, and vacant lots. Read more »

How to Start Your Own Skillshare

By Meg Wachter

11.19.09, 12:37pm Comments (1)

Organizing a Skillshare is fun and easy, since everyone really has something to teach, and something to learn. Read more »

Space and Sharing at the Prelinger Library

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.18.09, 5:28pm Comments (0)

I'm working this afternoon at the Prelinger Library. Read more »

How to Achieve Transparency at Work

By Traci Fenton

11.18.09, 9:50am Comments (0)

Q: How can I make my business more transparent to ensure that my employees always know what’s going on within the company?

A: Let's use an example: Chroma Technology Corp. Read more »

How to Be a Carfree Family

By Angela and Dorea Vierling-Claassen

11.11.09, 7:48am Comments (16)

Tired of paying car insurance, sitting in traffic jams, and guzzling too much gas? Do you never want to dig your car out of another snowstorm?
Perhaps your family already cut down from two cars to one, but taking the carfree step seems impossi. Read more »

How to Drive Your Car with an iPhone

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.11.09, 7:38am Comments (0)

From Waterloo Labs, "DIY projects deep in the heart of Texas." This video's relevance to Shareable. Read more »

Weatherizing Homes, the Shareable Way

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.02.09, 4:57pm Comments (0)

Shareable reader George Mokray writes: "The Cambridge MA group Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET) has been organizing monthly weatherization barnraisings for over a year"--on October 24, in conjunction with the international 350. Read more »

The Visceral Neighborhood

By Claire Kessler-Bradner

10.28.09, 6:48am Comments (1)

My mother is a painter, and she has never owned a home. I was fourteen when our landlord, Mr. Andersen, died. My mother couldn't afford to buy the house, which Mr. Read more »

How to Start a Nature Group for City Kids

By Olivia Boler

10.26.09, 7:06am Comments (1)

San Francisco families started a group to explore the lifecycles of bees and butterflies and to introduce their kids to basic ecological concepts. Here's how they did it.

I was two minutes late. Read more »