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Spacehive Crowdfunds Public Spaces

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05.31.12, 5:58pm Comments (2)
Crowdfunding has gone mainstream thanks to Kickstart and their ilk. Now from London comes Spacehive to help you crowdfund improvements in public space. Read more »

Homestead Skillshare Fest Teaches DIY for the Urban Home

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05.29.12, 9:26am Comments (0)
This past Saturday, I took the family to the Homestead Skillshare Festival in San Francisco and interviewed Mira Luna, one of the organizers. She clued me into how the festival serves a larger purpose of community resilience and sufficiency. Read more »

Giftivism: Designing for Generosity [VIDEO]

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05.25.12, 3:18pm Comments (0)
In a talk at TEDxBerkeley, Nipun Mehta explores his vision of “radically generous acts that change the world”. Read more »

FixIt Clinic [VIDEO]

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05.18.12, 11:09pm Comments (0)
For this week's Shareable Friday video, we bring you an installment of the Fixit Clinic in Albany, California. With the call, "Start your screwdrivers!" Peter Mui, dressed in a lab coat, helps a team of kids and adults take on the challenge of fixing their broken household items. Read more »

Building a Beta World

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05.14.12, 9:38am Comments (0)
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking at the re:publica event. The frame of the event was action.
This presentation was designed to inspire action. Read more »

Repair Cafes Counter Consumerism with Fixer Movement

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05.14.12, 6:41am Comments (2)
At the community-based Repair Cafe in the Netherlands, folks bring broken items to be fixed by amateur and professional tinkerers alike at no charge. Read more »

Playborhoods: Placemaking for Kids

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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 »

Shareable's Malcolm Harris on Russia Today

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05.11.12, 1:28pm Comments (0)
For this week's Shareable Friday video, we have our own editor Malcolm Harris on Russia Today's The Alyona Show discussing the Manhattan prosecutor's office's attempts to use his Twitter records in connection with an Occupy Wall Street arrest in October. Read more »

Global Award Helps Cities Find Shareable Solutions

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05.07.12, 3:12pm Comments (1)
The Living Labs Global Award addresses some of the sizable problems that cities and populations face across the globe, from Asia to Africa to the Americas. Read more »

Hacking New Tools for a New Economy

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05.04.12, 2:14pm Comments (0)
Prototyping tools that could illuminate and make accessible invisible systems of currency in San Francisco's Mid Market -- city’s most dense, dynamic, and economically impoverished community. The hope is that if solutions can be created here, they could be replicated in similar communities all over the world. Read more »
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