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3 Technologies That Pluck Resources from the Air

08.26.10, 11:07am Comments (0)

Air is the ultimate commons, something that no one can own but that everyone can access. But cruising through new discoveries on ScienceDaily, I discovered that we can get much more from air than just breath. Here are three cutting-edge technologi

The Evolution of Sharing

By Chris Arkenberg

08.16.10, 8:21am Comments (1)

Sharing isn't unique to humans but we seem to do it a lot more than any other mammals. Some combination of intrinsic altruism, on-the-spot cost-benefit calculus, and perhaps the routine abstractions we subconsciously employ to reconfigure our

Dear Facebook, You Call That Sharing? (Towards a Sharing Manifesto)

By Stephanie Smith

08.13.10, 12:11pm Comments (11)

The resource-sharing movement is building, but to get it to the next level (where sharing is a natural, easy part of our daily lives) we need more people to dive in and start doing it. The more people do it, the better we’ll get at it, and t

An Imaginary City That Changed the 20th Century

By Annalee Newitz

08.06.10, 11:41am Comments (2)

Before he invented the safety razor, King Camp Gillette was a futurist. In 1894, he published plans for a porcelain, hexagonal city with transparent sidewalks. Why do so many innovators dream of building the perfect city?

The Weeds of Ecotopia, Part Two

By Jeremy Adam Smith

07.20.10, 11:34am Comments (5)

In part one of our conversation with Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach and Farm City author Novella Carpenter, we explored the

The Guy Who Worked For Money

By Benjamin Rosenbaum

07.12.10, 5:00am Comments (15)

Nera waited for Malka in the big outer living room of 534a.tower5.loverslump.frankfurt.de -- Jörg's place. It had been six months since Nera was last here. Four months ago, she'd forced herself to stop watching and commenting.

The Great Gulf Enclosure

By David Bollier

06.23.10, 11:30am Comments (2)

The noxious gusher of oil flowing from one mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented environmental disaster, no doubt about it. This morning,

Dogs Make Great Neighbors

By Micki Krimmel

06.22.10, 7:20pm Comments (1)

I'm a dog owner. In fact, I spend so much time and energy on my dogs that I have recently taken to calling myself a crazy dog lady. I figure hey, at least it's better than being a crazy cat lady. I work in a

Blinded by Open Science

By Jeremy Adam Smith

06.10.10, 3:35pm Comments (2)

Shareable advisor Bernice Yeung pointed me to this

A Teen Guide to Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces

By Jeremy Adam Smith

05.28.10, 11:33am Comments (0)

"When I was a teenager living in rural Nova Scotia, there were two two places kids spent most of their time when they weren't at school: the McDonald's parking lot and a gigantic sand pit," writes

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