Contributors

Jeremy Adam Smith

Jeremy Adam Smith is the editor of Shareable.net. He’s the author of Read more »

Neal Gorenflo

Neal Gorenflo is the publisher of Shareable.net, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. A former lobbyist enabler, stock analyst, and ...

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Liz Kofman and Astri Von Arbin Ahlander

We’re two twenty-somethings who joined the real world armed with diplomas worth a combined half million dollars from Middlebury ...

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Chris Carlsson

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Max Gladwell

Max Gladwell™ is the nexus of social media and green living. It is Web 2.0 with a purpose. It is ...

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Emily Doskow

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

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

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Jen Angel

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

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Karen Solomon

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

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Simon Hodgson

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

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RACHEL BOTSMAN

Rachel Botsman is co-authoring a book with Roo Rogers called What’s Mine is Yours: ...

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Tom Savage

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

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Olivia Boler

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 ...

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Claire Kessler-Bradner

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 ...

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Aaron M. Renn

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

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David Hodgson

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

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Maria Armoudian

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

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Terry Bisson

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

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Alex Dixon

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

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Angela and Dorea Vierling-Claassen

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

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Meg Wachter

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

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Abby Quillen

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

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Emilie Raguso

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

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Jay Walljasper

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 ...

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Bosco

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

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Dawn Friedman

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 ...

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Danielle Davis

Danielle Davis is a writer in Los Angeles where she brings simple, earth-inspired living to the city. So far she shares stories, food, and ...

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Keara Schwartz

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

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Gianmaria Franchini

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

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Silke Helfrich

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

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Regan McMahon

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

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Shira Golding

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 ...

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Stephen Morgan

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 ...

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Sarah Chan

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 ...

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Kathleen Webb

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

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Amy and Marc Vachon

Amy and Marc Vachon are the hosts of Read more »

Aaron Arbuckle

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 ...

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Elizabeth Crane

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

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Debbie Siegel

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

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Brigid McMahon

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 ...

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Mira Luna

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 ...

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David Bollier

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

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Mike Sinclair

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

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Rick Smith

Rick Smith is a passionate advocate of the commons (and its slightly more business-minded relative, crowdsourcing) and its integration into ...

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Jesse Taggert

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

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Dacher Keltner

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

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Kim Gaskins

Kim Gaskins is the Director of Content Development and Read more »

Joseph Prichard

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

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Bernice Yeung

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

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Lisa Jervis

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 ...

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Justin Kemerling

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

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Paul M. Davis

Paul M. Davis is a Chicago-based writer obsessed with the new independent media, class, and arcade-style video golf. His work has appeared in ...

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EngineerScotty

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

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Mark Hogan

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

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Michelle James

Michelle James is a pioneering creativity catalyst who has been using universal creative principles and the process of emergence as the basis ...

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