The urban Homestead Skillshare Festival on Saturday, May 26, 2012 in San Francisco will share sustainable living and self-sufficiency skills. The event includes two dozen workshops, music, food, and more. Read more »
A new Guide to Sharing produced by The Center for a New American Dream and Shareable offers primers on community swaps, local lending, sharing time and skills, and starting a co-op. Read more »
A few years ago I had to find a temporary home for my cat, Cleo. This is a story about how my cat finally came home, because my community built a home for her without money. Read more »
I like to think of utopia as the space where idealism meets reality. Over the years, I have found few radical social change projects that met reality without failure or conflict, especially within a capitalist economy. Read more »
Author of Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein, speaks on the design flaws of money, how unconscious beliefs and cultural stories shape our economy, and what we can do to create a more spiritually interconnected economy. Read more »
The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank held a holiday fair demonstrating how to build community solidarity through sharing skills and time during the holidays. The holidays are an occasion to give and share, no money required. Read more »
Money and the economy are functions of community, and it is only in partnership with their communities that the politically disenfranchised can reclaim their lives from the permanent shortage of employment. Read more »
If you think you’re covered by health insurance, think again. According to a 2007 study in the American Journal of Medicine, illness and medical bills caused 62% of all bankruptcies and most of those people were insured and middle class. Read more »
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