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The “Global Transformation Movement” (GTM) includes and involves hundreds of thousands organisations and hundreds of millions of people, from all sectors of human society and from all walks of life, who are all longing and working for a better world. Within this vast, diverse and inspiring movement there is a growing awareness that we already have the knowledge, the skills, the technologies, the tools, the mentors and the living examples to co-create a peaceful, just and healthy world.
Co-working for social change is a growing global phenomenon, headlined by the organisations like the Impact Hub network or the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto. Across the world we are seeing ever-greater numbers of mission-driven innovators co-locate in order to maximise their success and impact. From humble beginnings in a leaky loft in Islington, the Impact Hub network now has over 82 spaces and 12,000+ members worldwide, from Singapore to Seattle; Johannesburg to Yerevan; Sao Paolo to Stockholm; Birmingham to Berlin.
This piece was written by Nathan Schneider for Yes! Magazine.
"This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It's also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the
Shareable, the Sharing Cities Network, our partners — and hopefully you — are hosting the third annual #MapJam starting April 4th through the 17th. We’re excited to bring communities together in cities around the world to connect the dots and map grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons.
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures is an ambitious and innovative new collaboration between the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and Project Sunshine
Ballarat St permanent park providing green space for the people of Yarraville (Melbourne).
Graphic recording of a recent Shareable-hosted discussion on sharing cities.
David Bollier is a policy strategist, activist, and a leading voice in the commons movement. In a new book, Bollier and commons activist Silke Helfrich, both members of the Commons Strategies Group, collaborated to underscore the fact that commons are not things, resources or goods; they are social structures, processes and patterns.
For activists committed to building a more democratic, open, and sustainable world, one question looms larger than all others: How do we create social change? Broadly speaking, there are two answers to this query. The first argues that a holistic attack on the status quo is the best—or perhaps the only—way to address the problems inherent to a political, economic, and social system that privileges the haves over the have-nots.
When a family falls into crisis -- and it sometimes happens, thanks to unemployment, drugs, bad relationships and bad luck -- the social services system is supposed to step in and help them get back on track. As Hilary Cottam shows, in the UK a typical family in crisis can be eligible for services from more than 70 different agencies, but it's unlikely that any one of them can really make a difference. Cottam, a social entrepreneur herself, asks us to think about the ways we solve deep and compl
Sometimes an idea takes hold of you and won’t let go. I’ve had a few ideas like that in my life — mostly having to do with environmental and social justice, family, faith, even software — bu…
The concept of the "network entrepreneur" could be a game changer for nonprofit leaders willing to embrace it.
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In his recent paper, Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm, author, activist and commons scholar David Bollier argues that the commons, which he describes as “at once a paradigm, a discourse, an ethic, and a set of social practices,” holds great promise in transcending the conundrum of imagining and building a “radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change.”
Org chart for the Loomio cooperative in April 2016
A new ebook from Creative Commons Korea (CC Korea) provides an insider’s view into Sharing City, Seoul, a pioneering, city-wide sharing initiative.
Protests can play a critical role in raising citizen’s consciousness and encouraging populations to force their governments to listen explains Development Progress researcher, Craig Valters.
Are you curious about the sharing movement but not sure where to begin? Or, are you a sharing maven and want to inspire your friends and family to integrate sharing into their lives? Either way, we have the perfect resource for you to experience how sharing, in both big and small ways, can turn your life around.
Would any sane PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying...
Support community initiatives by walking from Devon to Dorset, says Jonny Gordon-Farleigh.
I've given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It's simply unjust. There's a difference. We have to stop looking at our economy as a broken system, but one that is working absolutely true to its original design. It's time to be progressive -- and this means initiating systemic changes.
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Live-action role-play is venturing into some weighty social topics. Can make-believe really show us possible worlds?
In 2012, the city of Seoul launched Sharing City Seoul to create a local, government-sanctioned sharing culture – establishing the city of 10 million as a frontrunner in the sharing cities movement. City officials committed to cultivating a vibrant local sharing economy, and Seoul was quickly praised as a global sharing leader. But results on the ground have been mixed, and the initiative remains a work in progress. Sharing City Seoul hasn't taken off as hoped, and awareness of the sharing econo
Somero 2015’s five days of workshops, hackathons, and keynotes concluded successfully last Sunday.
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