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Can We Design Cities for Happiness?

By Jay Walljasper

03.03.10, 8:27am Comments (18)

Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access.

Dude, Where's Our Car?

By Corbyn Hightower

03.30.10, 10:07am Comments (52)

It's our last day with a car. The recession forced our hand, and though we've been talking about it for months, it still feels shocking and disorienting having the time come upon us. We've had a tough two years. I was a sales rep in an

The Stranger Exchange

By RACHEL BOTSMAN

11.29.09, 9:14pm Comments (7)

John Wilson stopped in Chicago during a road trip from Boston. He was walking by Wicker Park when he noticed a “totally anonymous and unsupervised” local drop box where you could leave or take unwanted books and DVD’s.

Detroit, New Frontier

By Aaron M. Renn

11.01.09, 7:25am Comments (9)

Detroit has become a byword for extreme urban contraction.

The Book Bike

By Paul M. Davis

04.20.10, 10:05am Comments (10)

You're likely familiar with the venerable Bookmobile, but when is the last time you saw one in your neighborhood? In many communities, it's a rare sight. Beset by budget cutbacks, library outreach is increasingly rare, leaving it to citize

The Exterminator's Want-Ad

By Bruce Sterling

06.22.10, 6:52am Comments (9)

So, I'm required to write this want-ad in order to get any help with my business. Only I have, like, a very bad trust rating on this system. I have rotten karma and an awful reputation. "Don't even go there, don't listen to a wor

Bird Swarm

By Jeremy Adam Smith

11.09.09, 1:27pm Comments (4)

On Friday, we published an essay I wrote with Alex Dixon on new discoveries in animal sharing and cooperation. Today, my pal Ariane shared this a

Here Comes Everything: A Review of Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus

By Paul M. Davis

07.13.10, 9:17am Comments (1)

Upon the release of his divisive 2008 book Here Comes Everybody

Birth of Sharing Law

By Janelle Orsi

03.29.10, 7:13am Comments (13)

What do you call a lawyer who helps people share, cooperate, barter, foster local economies, and build sustainable communities?

The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening

By Cory Doctorow

05.25.10, 10:32am Comments (21)

There is a phone, there is a phone, there is a phone like no phone that was ever hatched by the feverish imaginations of the world's phone manufacturers, a phone so small and so featureful and so perfect for my needs that it couldn&#3

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