How Lending Circles & Mutual Aid Groups Create Community Resilience
Recently, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) gathered community members for a conversation on “Mutual Aid, Lending Circles, Giving Circles, and Gift Circles.”
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Share Exchange: Incubating the Local Economy
The Share Exchange in Santa Rosa, CA is a unique nexus of projects under one roof, created to jumpstart the new economy in the North Bay region.
Surviving austerity
In 2010, the Coalition Government began trying to reduce the national deficit through public spending cuts and welfare reform. This – along with the effects of the recession – became the ‘new austerity’.
Creating Cities: Interview with Marcus Westbury of Renew Australia
Renew Australia is a social enterprise designed to catalyse community revitalisation across Australia. In this interview founder Marcus Westbury shares Renew’s vision for creative space activation.
Democratising capital at scale: cooperative enterprise and beyond
Faced with spiralling social, economic and environmental problems, many people are turning to economic democracy for solutions. But what shape should this democracy take?
Like Shopping at Local Businesses? Now You Can Invest in Them, Too
Community Sourced Capital is a newly formed lender that aims to apply the crowd-sourcing model to encourage the growth of locally owned businesses.
Countering the EcoPessimist
According to New York Magazine and economist Robert Gordon, the good times are over.
Econ4 Tries to Change the Economic Paradigm
A fairly new group of leading heterodox economic thinkers and activists has come together as Econ4 to pioneer some new forms of popular education about economics.
Common questions about economic sharing
As the concept of sharing slowly begins to grip the mass public consciousness, there are many questions that arise about the meaning and relevance of this simple concept for political and economic reform.
Andrew Simms at Tedx Newham: Cancel the Apocalypse
After witnessing at first hand over two decades of failed international efforts to solve critical problems ranging from extreme poverty to climate change, his latest book Cancel the Apocalypse: the new path to prosperity (2013) is the result of a search for something better.
From Bail-Outs to Bail-Ins: Our Banking System Needs Help
Public banking is a hot topic of late, both here on Shareable and in the world at large.
The economy isn’t coming back
Presently Americans wait with bated breath, watching sales numbers and unemployment statistics, grasping for signs that an economic recovery is underway.