The venerable English pub has long been a place where everyone from the businessman to the housewife to the student, factory worker and vicar could meet as equals — a social commons that reflected the neighborhood and its idiosyncrasies. Read more »
This morning I attended part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting, where they considered a proposal to increase fares and cut service--again. Read more »
It was the summer of 2007 and Kristin Hersh, frontwoman for the then-defunct band Throwing Muses, was at the end of a seven-month tour to promote her latest solo record. Read more »
“Common sense” is a term Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin repeatedly uses—with ever increasing enthusiasm—to describe the Hillside Farmers Cooperative he is creating with Latino farmers in southern Minnesota. Read more »
It is much safer to be feared than loved, writes Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince, his classic 16th-century treatise advocating manipulation and occasional cruelty as the best means to power. Read more »
Cameron Sinclair published the following piece on the Architecture for Humanity website, presenting a plan for rebuilding Haiti that I think is visionary and completely consistent with Shareable's values. Read more »
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