Imagine an event where every conversation is interesting, where everyone you meet is doing world-changing work in the sharing economy and wants to help you. Read more »
Whole Foods Market has partnered with rooftop farmers Gotham Greens on their new site in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Sustainable, local agriculture in the heart of NYC. Read more »
Much like the Little Free Libraries and Repair Cafés, the Free Things Box is meant to lengthen the life of things and keep them out of landfills prematurely. Read more »
Complete Streets ensure that streets are accessible for all users, not just cars. A recent study ranked new Complete Streets policies on usability, vision, implementation and more. Read more »
Guerrilla gardening, the practice of planting on land that does not legally belong to you, can turn vacant lots into vibrant community hubs. And feed hungry people. Read more »
How do we make better, safer, more shareable streets? One way is through traffic calming, which puts infrastructure in place that slows cars down and reminds drivers that they aren't the only ones out there. Read more »
An informal experiment conducted in Spain found that, when facing food injustice, all 20 of the children observed chose to share food. We grownups can learn a lot from them. Read more »
Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer on trusting strangers, the parallels between couchsurfing and crowdsurfing, the future of sharing art, asking for help and the power of the crowd. Read more »
Demonstrating the scale of what's possible via crowdsourcing, one city in the Netherlands built a city-spanning pedestrian bridge, funded, plank by plank, by the crowd. Read more »
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