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A few times a year, we round up the top new books about cities, sharing, collaboration, social tech, movement trends and more. Here are 21 books worth checking out for Shareable summer reading.
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"When ReachScale network began five years ago, the word "scale" was seldom used by leaders. Today it is front and center. Achieving scale requires three shifts in the core assumptions that drive current organizations: 1) Resource decisions must be vetted and consolidated to support the most innovative solutions; 2) Understanding that scale is never achieved by beginning with measurement, and 3) Significant resources must be moved from unstainable to sustainable models and solutions."
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We are a Manchester based tech startup company. We develop integrated biospheric & technological infrastructure for cities, creating outstanding ecological environments for people. Working in transdisciplinary teams we produce diverse and resilient ecological solutions. Our critical research knowledge gives us leading edge expertise across a wide range of sectors. Over the next five years the studio will develop fifty technologically advanced, ecological urban systems throughout Greater Manchester.
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Marc J. Lane Wealth Group� offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to addressing legal and financial opportunities and problems. Our strengths lie in areas where legal and financial decisions intersect.
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What happens when programmers, designers, and activists join forces? Change happens. Or, more specifically, Changeforge happens.
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The sharing movement is evolving quickly and in many directions. The growth of platform and worker co-ops, increased awareness of the commons, the evolution of coworking, an explosion of tech-enabled sharing services, and more are opening up promising if not challenging frontiers.
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Leila Janah and Felix Oldenburg will pick up where previous panels on the future of work have left off and discuss the changes we are facing in our work life...
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Community wealth building is a way of strengthening communities by supporting democratic ownership and control of local businesses. This means more opportunity, inclusion and prosperity for the many, not just the few. This is aligned with Shareable's vision for Sharing Cities and cooperative economies.
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The terms ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social enterprise’ “dichotomise the commercial and the social spheres” argues Pamela Hartigan, director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Make Shift Boston hosts a variety of community events such as this Feast Mass, part of the Sunday Soup community arts funding movement.
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Pavlos Georgiadis (33) is an international, interdisciplinary food systems researcher, ethnobotanist and social entrepreneur. In this video, he presents his idea for the creation of an online interactive platform to map the food system of Greece.
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by Maira Sutton, Cat Johnson and Neal Gorenflo The sharing economy held great promise when it first emerged. It was seen as a way to help people build community, reduce unnecessary consumption, and generate extra income. It was based on the brilliantly simple notion that when we share, everybody has more.
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As coworking explodes in popularity, its parallel movement, co-living, is being touted as the next disruption of surplus space. At its essence, co-living offers shared living space and amenities, more housemates than the typical roommate situation, access to a network of properties, and flexible lease options that allow long and short-term residents to live side by side.
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Aprovecho is a 40-acre center 15 miles south of Eugene, Oregon dedicated to researching and teaching sustainable living practices and green skills. Rosie Kirincic works there with six other staff members. She lives with four of them on-site. Those six people are coordinating the construction of a 2,500 square foot community-meeting hall using natural building methods. They manage rotating crews of work-traders who come to help with the project through the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) organization.
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Social Media Squad is a digital strategy consultancy affiliated with MakeSense, helping social entrepreneurs increase their impact. They are using Loomio to ...
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Daniel Epstein of the Unreasonable Institute at Impact Hub Barcelona. Credit: U.S. Consulate General Barcelona
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Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance — Enspiral Tales — Medium
Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance - Enspiral Tales - Medium
From the beginning. Last month, a group of 35 designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from all over the world gathered in Oakland…
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The Battle of Yavin where the first Death Star was destroyed. Credit: Fanpop We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now. It might be the most important economic decision we ever make, but most of us don't even know we have a choice.
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It's time for a design revolution in open technology. Companies like Google and Facebook that dominate the Internet promise us free services in exchange for ...
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