Tag: Recession

Controlled Burn

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I’m at a café right now that’s across the street from a vacant office building. The low-slung seventies-contemporary structure used to house our family dentist’s business. Read more »

Hacking As A Civic Duty

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Building the peer-to-peer cities of tomorrow will require more than apps and data visualizations. We must apply the hacker ethos to how we organize, collaborate, and tell the stories of our cities. Read more »

New Communities Support Families Headed by Grandparents

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A community apartment building in the Bronx offers parenting workshops, after-school programs, counseling, job training, summer camp and more. The catch? You have to be a grandparent raising a grandchild to live here. Read more »

Just in Time

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Timebanks are catching fire as a tool to circumvent the scarcity and misdirection of conventional money. Read more »

Building a New American Theater of the Commons

Two leading voices in new American theater on how to build a crowdsourced theater of the commons in precarious economic times. Read more »

Megan Stielstra Shares Stories of the Resilience of the 99%

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An interview with Chicago author Megan Stielstra about Times Are Tough All Over, her story and website that documents how people are coping and making ends meet during the recession. Read more »

On The Solidarity Economy: A Q&A with Mira Luna

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Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo and founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives Michel Bauwens talked with solidarity economy activist and organizer Mira Luna about the historical moment and what's coming soon from alternative economies. Read more »

How Libraries Are Doing More With Less

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Libraries are contending with less funding and less institutional support, and while some are threatened, others are innovating and thriving. How libraries are adapting, and what you can do to help. Read more »

More Than Books: Libraries Strengthen Communities in Uncertain Times

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The modern-day library is a digital hub, community resource center, job-hunting resource, art space and provider of free and open access to information. Read more »

The Shit Jobs of the Future [VIDEO]

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"Ghosts With Shit Jobs" envisions a United States of the future, where Americans live in slums and work the undesirable jobs of tomorrow, like human spambot and digital copyright janitor. Read more »
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