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Participatory Budgeting Gains Steam in San Francisco

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Following Chicago's lead, San Francisco is considering diving head first into participatory budgeting. S.F. Public Press reporter Michael Levitin takes a look at the pros and cons of citizens having a direct say in where the money goes. Read more »

Home-Sharing Programs Offer Longer-Term Housing Solutions

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Sonoma County's Committee on the Shelterless helps find solutions for both people needing homes and people struggling to keep their homes. Read more »

Building a DIY Civilization with the Global Village Construction Set

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Bringing together farmers, engineers and industrious DIY'ers, Open Source Ecology is an effort to build low-cost, sustainable and self-contained machines that could build and power a small-scale society. Read more »

Pay-What-You-Can Cafés Share the Bounty with Those in Need

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How Panera Bread's pay-what-you-want cafes are an example of conscious capitalism in action. Read more »

Maker-Spaces: Three Englishmen Forging A New Form of Capitalism

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Hackshops and maker-spaces aren’t just the trendiest thing in coworking, they might be the key to the next evolution of capitalism. Read more »

Successful Share Fair Kick-Starts Local Movement

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Santa Rosa's first-ever Fifth Street Share Fair this past Sunday welcomed 2,000 people to share and share alike. Read more »

Can Non-Profits Save California's State Parks?

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With 70 California State Parks slated for closure, Assembly Bill 42 would allow non-profits to save them. Cat Johnson investigates. Read more »

Urban Innovation Requires a Hackathon for Everyone

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As their name suggests, the Grey Area Foundation for The Arts (GAFFTA) understands that the best solutions are not black and white, they come from the gray area - the space of overlapping interest in common problems and solutions. Read more »

How to Share Land

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With food prices rising, land is a high-demand asset that can and should be shared. Read more »

A Perfect Match: Economic Gardening & Worker Co-ops

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Small, cooperatively-run businesses are the fertilizer from which stable economies will grow. Read more »
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