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Chicken and Cow Strike Again
November 24, 2009 – 7:24 pm | No Comment
Chicken and Cow Strike Again

In the last few days, Shareable.net posted not one, but TWO great articles related to chicken and cow sharing, entitled How to Share a Cow and How to Share a Chicken (or Two). There’s just …

A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest
November 23, 2009 – 6:17 pm | No Comment
A Big List of Sharing Ideas from Green Fest

Here’s yet another list of sharing ideas! We collected these ideas on post-it notes from visitors to our booth at the San Francisco Green Festival. We asked people to tell us their ideas for …

Sharing Ideas from Bioneers, Part 4: Slow Homes
November 19, 2009 – 5:40 pm | No Comment
Sharing Ideas from Bioneers, Part 4: Slow Homes

On Tuesday, Shareable.net posted my article about “Slow Homes,” and we’ve already received interesting comments and additional ideas. Here are more ideas that may or may not have made it into the article. …

Launching the Slow Homes Movement
November 17, 2009 – 5:09 pm | One Comment
Launching the Slow Homes Movement

Shareable.net just published my two-part “Slow Homes Manifesto,” which is really meant to be the starter for a much broader conversation. In the piece, I start to paint a picture of what a slow homes …

Tip: Sharing Food and Making Friends
November 12, 2009 – 11:28 pm | No Comment
Tip: Sharing Food and Making Friends

Here’s a great idea for sharing food in community with others: get a bunch of people, many of whom are strangers to one another, together in a kitchen and give them cooking assignments in small …

Sharing Ideas from Bioneers: Part 3
November 10, 2009 – 5:23 pm | No Comment
Sharing Ideas from Bioneers: Part 3

At our “Cooperative Living and Sharing Brainstorm Booth” at the Bioneers Conference, we also asked people to tell us: “What are barriers to community building?”
Here are some of the answers:

Petty issues that get people …

Plant Sharing Helps Your Garden and Community Grow
November 8, 2009 – 7:31 pm | One Comment
Plant Sharing Helps Your Garden and Community Grow

Every year, my mom, an avid gardener, puts out the word to her friends and colleagues that she is having a massive plant give-away. Her garden seems to get more vibrant every year, but I …

Sharing ideas from Bioneers: Part 2
November 7, 2009 – 5:17 pm | No Comment
Sharing ideas from Bioneers: Part 2

We asked attendees of the Bioneers conference to write down an answer to “What Do You Share?” Here is what they said:
* Tools
* Plants

Grocery Shopping in the Age of Sharing
November 4, 2009 – 6:39 pm | No Comment
Grocery Shopping in the Age of Sharing

EcoSalon posted a nice piece today: “Sharing: It’s not just nice, it’s necessary.”  I love the “rundown of the 15 coolest sharing concepts.”

Coincidentally, I know the journalist who wrote the piece, Vanessa Barrington, because we …

“Bioneering” Ideas for Sharing, Part 1
November 3, 2009 – 9:54 pm | No Comment
“Bioneering” Ideas for Sharing, Part 1

The weekend before last, I shared a “Cooperative Living and Sharing Brainstorm Booth” with Regenerative Real Estate at the incredible Bioneers Conference. Our booth featured a coffee table and chairs in a circle, and …