This Week in Sharing brings us open data, driver incentives, micro apartments, and the top 10 happiest cities in the world. Read more »

We're poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. In this essay, David Bollier and Silke Helfrich of the Commons Strategy Group point a way forward beyond market and state to a common-based society where power and resources are shared voluntarily. Read more »

Precocious 12-year-old Victoria Grant explains how her native Canada and the rest of the world has accrued an untenable amount of debt Read more »

While the current narrative of the American economy is far from hopeful, cooperatives are setting a more uplifting tone and are pressing their case as a fix for unemployment and reviving the middle class. Read more »