Tag: Interviews

Barter-Based School Goes Global [INTERVIEW]

By Tal Beery

05.22.12, 5:47pm Comments (0)

A school where the teachers teach whatever they want and the students pay with whatever teachers need — not with money. Caroline Woolard discusses the challenges and opportunities for Trade Schools. Read more »

Playborhoods: Placemaking for Kids

By Neal Gorenflo

05.13.12, 9:38am Comments (10)

Childhood has been enclosed. Time to re-establish the play commons and rescue our kids from boredom, obesity and depression. Read more »

Curvy Life: An Interview with Alan Moore

By Michel Bauwens

04.13.12, 12:26pm Comments (0)

The P2P Foundation's Michel Bauwens and Shareable's Neal Gorenflo chat with Alan Moore, founder of the innovation consultancy firm SMLXL and author of the new book No Straight Lines: Making Sense of a Non-Linear World. Read more »

TaskRabbit: Running Errands For Fun and Profit

By Sarah Brooks

03.05.12, 2:52pm Comments (1)

Taskrabbit's Leah Busque discusses outsourcing your to-do list, establishing trust online, and the future of the sharing economy. Read more »

Peer to Peer Food Growing Takes Root

By Mira Luna

03.02.12, 3:39pm Comments (1)

An interview with Laurence Schechtman who is founder and coordinator for Neighborhood Vegetables — a grassroots network of 2,500 volunteers who help each other plant organic vegetable gardens. Read more »

Four Insights from Uniiverse on the Future of Sharing

By Benjamin Tincq

02.28.12, 11:53am Comments (1)

Among the myriad P2P platforms allowing sharing of goods, services, or experiences, Uniiverse got a pretty fair amount of coverage for its launch two weeks ago. Read more »

The Future Now: An Interview with David de Ugarte

By Neal Gorenflo

02.20.12, 12:14pm Comments (2)

Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation's Michel Bauwens interviews David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative. Read more »

Co-ops are Big: Charles Gould on the Int'l Year of the Co-op

By Jessica Reeder

02.13.12, 9:08am Comments (0)

Think you know what big business looks like? Think again. According to Charles Gould, co-ops are poised to be the fastest growing business model by 2020. Read more »

Governance of Open Source: George Dafermos Interview

By Michel Bauwens

02.06.12, 12:07pm Comments (2)

George Dafermos is one of the few researchers specializing in the governance of free software communities and has set clear criteria for genuine peer production. Read more »

Disruptive Distribution: An Interview with JD Moyer

By Neal Gorenflo

01.30.12, 10:41am Comments (0)

Entrepreneur JD Moyer moved into an open, participatory music culture while reflecting on the evolution of capitalism in the context of sharing. Read more »