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  • Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
    Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
  • Housing justice beyond consumerism – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
    Housing justice beyond consumerism – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
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  • Urban Agriculture and Racial and Economic Equity with Kristin Reynolds

    Urban Agriculture and Racial and Economic Equity with Kristin Reynolds

  • Mutual Aid and the movement to Stop Cop City

    Mutual Aid and the movement to Stop Cop City

  • The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Politics and Policy

    The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Politics and Policy

  • “We the landmarks”: reflections on High Rise Stories with Audrey Petty

    “We the landmarks”: reflections on High Rise Stories with Audrey Petty

  • A new compass for navigating past the collapse: A review of “Breaking Together” by Dr. Jem Bendell

    A new compass for navigating past the collapse: A review of “Breaking Together” by Dr. Jem Bendell

  • The Response: Heatwaves and energy poverty in the Mediterranean

    The Response: Heatwaves and energy poverty in the Mediterranean

  • The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power

    The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power

  • The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community ownership

    The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community ownership

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  • New toolkit from Shareable will help you start (and grow) a Library of Things in YOUR community

    New toolkit from Shareable will help you start (and grow) a Library of Things in YOUR community

    Libraries of Things (often referred to as LoTs) are community hubs that facilitate the sharing of a wide range of items. Operating on the familiar model of a…

  • How to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement

    How to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement

    This how to guide is reposted from PowerSwitch Action’s “Community Benefits Agreements” policy toolkit. The toolkit and additional resources can be found here. A Community Benefits Agreement or…

  • How to free the soil by depaving

    How to free the soil by depaving

    How much thought do you give to pavement? Our cities are covered with it, but it’s not exactly a hot topic of conversation (though it should be!) Pavement…

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  • The cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
    The cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
  • Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
    Tool libraries, mutual aid, and community-led disaster response with Rachel Kinbar, Shelby Treichler, and Ben Wyatt
  • The Pointillistic City: Well-being and equity in communities and their places with Dan O’Brien
    The Pointillistic City: Well-being and equity in communities and their places with Dan O’Brien

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