Five Ways to Curb Your Child’s Materialism This Holiday Season
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View ArticleThe Sharing Garden Shows the Way to a Moneyless Food System
In Monroe, Oregon, the Sharing Garden started and managed by Chris Burns and Llyn Peabody is the gift that keeps on giving. Over the past few years, the garden's bounty has tripled thanks to the...
View ArticleShareable's Top 15 How-Tos of All Time
Some of Shareable’s top posts of all time are how to stories. This aligns nicely with the feedback we regularly receive that our community wants more in-person projects, gatherings, and events to...
View ArticleThis Freelancer Gave Away His Work. What Happened Next Is Inspiring.
Top image: Adrian Hoppel. Article cross-posted from Freelancers Union. Authored by Lindsay Van Thoen.What happened if you stopped charging clients? No contracts, no fees, no negotiations. You would...
View ArticleStreet Store: The Open Source Pop-up Clothing Swap for the Homeless
Kayli Levitan and Max Pazak work in an advertising agency in Cape Town, South Africa. The area around their workplace is hip, but like many urban areas it has a large homeless population."People often...
View ArticleFounder of Time Banking Believes Everyone Has Something to Contribute
Top image credit: ansik / Foter. Article cross-posted from Elevation D.C.
View ArticleLA Time Banks Create Small Business Loan Fund
Time Bankers of Echo Park, Los Angeles. Photo by Kristin Bedford.When Sarah McGowan Dear made a career shift from doing social work to working for herself, she learned some valuable lessons. Among...
View ArticleSupermodel Lily Cole Launches Gift Economy Platform Impossible.com
Top image: Lily Cole presents Impossible at Let's Collaborate.When a supermodel enters the sharing economy, it certainly raises a few eyebrows. Therefore, when Lily Cole came to New York to launch her...
View Article3 Hilarious April Fools' Vids Spoofing the Sharing Economy
Every year on April 1, marketing wizards across the globe unleash a torrent of cleverness in an attempt to make us laugh and, of course, buy their products. This year, with collaborative consumption...
View ArticleInside Detroit’s Spring Clean Swap, Skillshare and DJ Party
What’s more fun than a clothing and goods swap? A clothing and goods swap with a DJ and dancefloor, of course. Recently, a group of sharers in Detroit, a model of resilience, reinvention,...
View ArticleAnn Arbor Sharing Summit Catalyzes Local Sharing Movement
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. It's a sentiment famously expressed by activist Emma Goldman, but Goldman was not alone in her idea of a worthy revolution. Shareable’s...
View ArticlePrehispanic 2.0: Latin America’s Peer-to-Peer Roots
Top image: Ministério da Cultura Brasil. This post, written by Bernardo Gutiérrez, describes a number of traditional practices originating in Latin America’s indigenous cultures, which find their...
View Article40 #SharingSpring Tweets Heard Around the World
The #SharingSpring is a decentralized movement that’s, well, springing up all over the world.
View Article20 + Latin American Cities Celebrate Collaborative Economy This Week
From May 4th to the 11th, more than 20 cities around the world will celebrate the CollaborativeEconomyWeek: eight days to celebrate, practice and promote the culture of sharing.
View ArticleLisbon ShareFest Brings Together the Portuguese Sharing Community
Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, is one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back to 1200 BCE. It's a hub of finance, media, trade, education, the arts and now, an emerging sharing...
View ArticleStreet Store: The Open Source Pop-up Clothing Swap for the Homeless
Kayli Levitan and Max Pazak work in an advertising agency in Cape Town, South Africa. The area around their workplace is hip, but like many urban areas it has a large homeless population."People often...
View ArticleThink Global, Eat Local
Don't look now, but there's a new addition to the local food movement coming 'round the bend. Now beta testing in Seattle, ÜbrLocal aims to be an online "social marketplace for everything urban food."...
View ArticleSwitzerland's Pumpipumpe Helps Neighbors Share Stuff Using Stickers
Back before technology took over our lives with all its convenience, if we needed to borrow something, we'd simply go knock on our neighbor's door and ask politely. Sometimes, we'd even have standing...
View ArticleThe Rochester ShareFest: Swaps, Workshops, Hugs and a Little Rain
A three-day showcase of Rochester, New York’s sharing economy, the Rochester ShareFest that took place May 2-4, included swaps, repair cafes, upcycled art, music lessons, seed sharing, food, bike...
View ArticleSilver Spring ShareFest Connects Jugglers, Makers and Local Sharers
Recently, Silver Spring Shares, a grassroots organization in Silver Spring, Maryland, hosted its first ShareFest. Part of Shareable's #SharingSpring, the event was catalyzed by a presentation that...
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