Germany Joins Europe’s Bike Highway Revolution
Photo courtesy of RS1. Leave it to Germany to build a bicycle autobahn that connect 10 cities within its borders. The goal? To take some 50,000 vehicles off the actual highways and make commuting by...
View ArticleNew Report: Smartphone Apps May Change Transportation More Than Expected
As you've probably noticed, smartphone apps are having a big impact on transportation. A new report, Smartphone Applications to Influence Travel Choices: Practices and Policies, by the U.S. Department...
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The Working World: Funding Co-ops with Non-Extractive Capital
As more and more consumers get savvy about where they put their money, how do cooperatives expand their supply to meet the demand? After all, worker-owners each have a stake in the co-op's future and a...
View ArticleNew Toolkit Helps Cities Bolster Shared-Use Mobility Programs and Policies
Photo credit: Thomanication via Foter.com / CC BY-ND. Toolkits — whether informational or terrestrial — are helpful things to have handy. That's why the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) recently...
View ArticleThe Apios Institute: A Polyculture Wiki in the Works
What happens when you bring farmers, gardeners, and researchers together with a singular purpose? A wiki of perennial polycultures shepherded by the Apios Institute that aims to support folks around...
View ArticleA Guide to Participatory Budgeting in Schools
Participatory budgeting has been a hot topic on Shareable since our founding because it's democratic decision-making where it counts — money. Though thousands of cities — including Porto Alegre,...
View ArticleZeroLandfill Project Upcycles Free Materials for Artists and Educators
The 2015 Harvest. Photo courtesy of ZeroLandfill Project. On Saturday, August 27, the ZeroLandfill project returns to Middle Tennessee for its fifth annual Harvest of free materials for teachers,...
View ArticleNew Open-Source ESLOV Toolkit Makes Building IoT Devices Easy
Arduino has long been on the vanguard of the open-hardware movement with countless numbers of robots, drones, 3D printers, and more built with their user-friendly, open source electronics platform....
View ArticleNew Social Movement Board Game Pits Activists Against “The System”
The creators of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives are back! The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) folks are currently crowdfunding their latest project — Rise Up: The Game of People and...
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Former Army Base Could Become World’s First Sharing Economy Mega Commune
Army bases often must be all-inclusive. Many of them feature housing, schools, medical clinics, department stores, gas stations and other services in order to fully support service people and their...
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