Contributors

Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Read more »

Max Gladwellâ„¢ is the nexus of social media and green living. It is Web 2.0 with a purpose. It is ...

Janelle Orsi is co-author of Read more »

Emily Doskow is an author, attorney, and sharer in the San Francisco Bay Area. With Janelle Orsi, she is co-author of  Read more »

Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He also co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space ...

Jen Angel has been a writer and media activist for over 15 years. She co-founded and published Clamor Magazine, an award-winning ...

Karen Solomon is the author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It (Ten Speed Press, 2009) and The Cheap Bastard’s Guide to San ...

Simon Hodgson has been a burger-flipper, tomato-picker, technology reporter, movie listings editor and freelance writer. His latest career is ...

Tom Savage is the cofounder and managing partner of Bright Green Talent, which matches jobseekers to green employers. He has started three ...

Olivia Boler's first novel, Year of the Smoke Girl, was published in 2000 by Dry Bones Press, and her latest short fiction appears in the ...

Claire Kessler-Bradner was born is San Francisco, CA and still calls the city home. She is a life-long artist who grew up in a print shop, and ...

Aaron M. Renn is The Urbanophile, an opinion-leading urban success strategist and writer. He is on a ...

I want to leave the world a slightly better place than I found it. I like to help people see things in new ways.

Maria Armoudian is a singer and songwriter, graduate student in political science, radio host at KPFK in Los Angeles, and a former commissioner ...

Terry Bisson is the author of seven novels: WYRLDMAKER (Pocket, 1981); TALKING MAN (Arbor House, 1987), a World Fantasy Award nominee; FIRE ON ...

Alex Dixon is an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and an editorial assistant for Greater Good magazine.

Angela and Dorea Vierling-Claassen live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two children, where both are mathematicians. Together, they ...

Meg Wachter is a vertically challenged, music-savvy photo nerd. She resides in Brooklyn, New York and works as a photographer and a retoucher. ...

Abby Quillen is a freelance writer. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, son, two cats, and four chickens. She blogs about simple, ...

Emilie Raguso is a multimedia reporter in Oakland who focuses on issues of criminal justice, food and Oakland culture. She is passionate about ...

Jay Walljasper is co-editor of OnTheCommons.org. He is author of the forthcoming book What We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons as ...

I am Bosco. I study proteins as a postdoc in San Francisco. I write about performances, programming, books, science, writing, pictures and ...

I have been writing professionally since 1999 and my clips appear in Salon.com (where my essay about my daughter’s adoption was chosen as an ...

Danielle Davis is a writer in Los Angeles. So far she shares stories, clothes, scooter rides with her husband, and her patio with a lot of ...

Keara Schwartz is the founder of Share Some Sugar, an online service that finds someone in your neighborhood who is willing to lend you ...

Gianmaria Franchini lives in Oakland, California, and writes for SF Public Press.

Silke Helfrich is the primary author of CommonsBlog and the editor of three books, most ...

Regan McMahon is a writer, book critic and video producer in Oakland. She worked at the San Francisco Chronicle for many years, where ...

I'm a queer, vegan filmmaker, writer and musician living in beautiful Ithaca, NY. I'm an organizer with Share Tompkins, a volunteer-run group ...

Stephen Morgan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Notre Dame. He is about to leap into the jaws of that monster called ...

I am a piano teacher here in Edmonton. Married to a guy named Don. Have a baby named Dexter and a border terrier named Dougal. Riding a bike is ...

Kathleen Webb is the president and co-founder of HomeWork Solutions, which provides payroll and tax services to families employing household ...

Amy and Marc Vachon are the hosts of Read more »

Aaron Arbuckle is an associate with Architectural Nexus in Salt Lake City, Utah. An architect by day and a student of urban planning and social ...

Elizabeth Crane is a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader. She is also the on-site manager of the Noe Valley Farmers’ Market, every ...

Debbie Siegel is a doctoral candidate studying developmental psychology at UC Santa Cruz. She is interested in how people use objects. Her ...

Brigid McMahon is a real estate lawyer in Newport Beach, CA, who grew up on TV and hasn't kicked the habit, but spends more time riding and ...

Mira Luna is a San Francisco based activist who is working on developing an alternative economy in the Bay Area. She helps coordinate Bay Area ...

David Bollier is the editor of OntheCommons.org; activist and writer about the commons; author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, ...

Mike Sinclair is an architectural and fine art photographer living in Kansas City, Missouri. His photographs are frequently published in the ...

Jesse is the part time manager of Citizen Space, a coworking space in San Francisco. She works as an independent consultant offering ...

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology and faculty director and founder of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. He studies the ...

Joseph Prichard is a Los Angeles based freelance designer, typographer, and bon vivant. His practice includes design for print, environmental ...

A former staff writer for SF Weekly who has also worked as an editor at California Lawyer magazine, Bernice’s work has ...

Lisa Jervis's official bio makes her sound far more official than she actually is. She is the founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist ...

Justin Kemerling is working toward becoming a community activist designer with creative collaboration focused on positive, progressive change ...

EngineerScotty is a software engineer and part-time transportation geek from the Portland, Oregon area. He is a frequent commenter on the blog ...

Mark moved to London, England from San Francisco last year and is originally from the Buffalo, New York area. While in California, he completed ...

Everett Bogue is the author of The Art of Being Minimalist and blogs at Far Beyond The Stars

Jen Burke Anderson is a writer, thinker, and activist obsessed with media, cultural democracy, common values, and the impact of ideas on ...

Fran Korten, YES! Magazine’s publisher, spent 20 years with the Ford Foundation making grants to support community management of water and ...

Francisco Santa Maria and his twin brother Felipe launched the website Regala Tu Cumpleaños--or Give Your Birthday, Read more »

Jessica DeGroot is one of the nation's leading figures in the work/life field. Passionately committed to educating others about work and family ...

Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger ...

Dan DeLisi, AICP, is a Principal of a Planning and Civil Engineering firm with offices in Southwest and Central Florida. He has a comprehensive ...

Louise Crabtree is a research fellow in the University of Western Sydney's Urban Research Centre. She completed a PhD on urban sustainability, ...

Robin Chase is founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community. She also founded and leads Meadow Networks, a consulting firm that ...

Journalist Melinda Blau is the co-author of

Jonathan Dugan is the founder and president of ClearBits. Previous to this he worked as a consultant providing business strategy and technical ...

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a ...

Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Salon.com, and Asimov’s ...

Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of ...

Allison Arieff is the Pepsi Refresh ambassador for food and shelter and a Shareable.net editorial advisor. She also writes the “By Design” ...

Laura Forlano is a writer, researcher and consultant based in New York City. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Human Computer ...

Bruce Sterling is an Texas-based science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a design and Net culture theorist. His ...

Chris Arkenberg is co-founder of Augmented Reality Development Camp, strategic adviser to Hukilau, and a visiting researcher at Institute for ...

Health educator and writer with a background in sustainable food, wellness, and conscious living.

Cat Johnson is a freelance writer, type illustrator, photography enthusiast, musician and record store die-hard. She publishes Read more »

Steven Clift is a founder of E-Democracy.Org in 1994 and served as Board Chair through 2008. He is an online strategist on the use of the ...

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of

Charlie Jane Anders writes about science fiction for io9.com, and she’s hard at work on a fantasy novel. You can find her work in the ...

Jack Graham is an interactive producer and software business analyst. His clients and employers have been primarily in the travel, publishing, ...

Ben Jervey is a Contributing Editor and Planet Ambassador to the Pepsi Refresh Project and author of

Lauren Anderson is a writer and Project Director, building the movement of Collaborative Consumption.

Alex is a lawyer, occasional activist and bicycle commuter

I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first ...

Kyla Fullenwider has directed public art projects with the City of New York, pop-up community centers with GOOD, and street food adventures ...