Tag: sustainability

Students Challenged to Rethink Materialism

By Mira Luna

04.23.13, 10:42am Comments (1)

Students at Ohio Wesleyan University held Green Week recently with sharing as a focus, and minds and lives were changed for good. Read more »

Project M Celebrates 10 Years of Thinking Wrong

By Future

04.18.13, 3:27pm Comments (1)

In 2003, designer John Bielenberg founded Project M to teach young people to drive positive change by thinking wrong. Read more »

Values and the Sharing Economy

By Rajesh Makwana

02.08.13, 12:52pm Comments (6)

To have a better chance at long-term social impact, it's important for sharing economy advocates to emphasize social benefits of sharing over personal benefits, such as financial gain. Read more »

Nine Fine Notions from Resilient Communities

By Kelly McCartney

12.26.12, 10:37am Comments (0)

On the Resilient Communities blog, they discuss problems and also offer solutions with an eye toward sustainability and, well, resilience. Here are nine ideas. Read more »

Summit Eden: Can a $40m Coliving Complex Change the World?

By Jessica Reeder

12.11.12, 10:25am Comments (0)

Founders of the exclusive Summit conference, where young celebrity innovators party hard, plan a permanent settlement. Will they change the world or just get more time to bask in each others glow? Read more »

The Commons as a Transformative Vision

By Commons Strategy Group

10.31.12, 5:33am Comments (2)

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 »

Is the Paradox of Choice an Opportunity for the Sharing Economy?

By Paul M. Davis

10.17.12, 10:39am Comments (1)

Perceived lack of choice has been cited as a potential barrier to sharing service adoption, but perhaps it’s actually an opportunity. Read more »

Has the Green Door Been Bolted?

By Sharon Ede

07.06.12, 12:04pm Comments (0)

In many OECD nations, a combination of budget cuts, austerity measures and increasing costs of living associated with the global financial crisis fallout appear to have diminished popular concern with environmental and sustainability issues. Read more »

Interviewed: Raj Patel, Author of The Value of Nothing

By Jonny Gordon-Farleigh

07.02.12, 10:09am Comments (0)

Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews Raj Patel about how sustainable, local food movements counter globalization's effects both economically and environmentally. Read more »