Help us raise the final funds we need to employ a coordinator to help build the housing movement in London! The Radical Housing Network was set up in 2013 in response to London’s growing housing crisis. The network helps facilitate mutual support and solidarity between local housing group
My laptop perched precariously on my lap, I write this as I drive around London in a van collecting rubbish that I will be eating for dinner. As strange as this sounds, this is not the craziest thing I have done in a whirlwind month where I tested whether or not I could survive in the sharing economy.
London's parks could become inaccessible to the public as a lack of funding makes it increasingly likely they will be sold to private companies, a committee chair warns.
Around 150 people joined a protest outside The Black Cap public house in Camden yesterday after it closed suddenly and without warning last week. The long running LGBT venue opened in the 1960s, surviving throughout the days when gay people faced prosecution. Now it is falling victim to rampant gentrification that respects neither culture or history and seeks only to make as much money as possible for greedy property developers.
Earlier this November, the British-American Business Council’s New England chapter (BABCNE) hosted an inspiring event in Boston that brought together nine high-ranking foreign diplomats, members of international business associations and business...
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor for Culture & Media at the New School and author of the book Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016). He is currently touring European cities to talk about platform cooperativism. Platform cooperativism, as he puts it, is "a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance." I talked to him about this young movement, its rise, and the steps ahead.
Alanna from Loomio met Vica Rogers in London, to learn more about her world of citizen education and activism. Vica was involved in the Occupy movement in the UK, and has continued working on related issues ever since.
Tech City NewsLondon's opportunity to become the sharing economy capital of the worldTech City NewsThe sharing economy is not only re-imaging the way we do business, it is also one of the fastest growing areas of London's booming technology sector,...
LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.
We live in a world where hierarchical political and economical structures not only no longer serve us well but are depleting our common resources and destroying those important relationships between people and nature necessary for our subsistence on this planet: climate and environmental problems, biodiversity, seeds, food, water quality, housing, privatisation of the NHS, democratic deficit, lack of public space, the corporate threat of TTIP, etc.
Building on the public’s appetite for 3D printing, this year those behind the 3D Printshow London have created a dazzling way to grab the attention of event goers—and that’s through their stomachs. After all,...
The Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays) is a diverse globally distributed design event using open source principles to achieve a circular economy!
In the same week that FairCoop celebrated its first six months, Luis Tiago (@sede) arrived in London to introduce the concept of the Earth Cooperative for a Fair Economy and Faircoin for the first time to the United Kingdom.
There has been much trumpeting of a change in legislation in the government’s Deregulation Bill that will allow Londoners to participate more fully in the “sharing economy” by renting their homes out on a short-let basis for up to 90 days a year. While many may be excited at the prospect of earning some extra cash when they go on holiday, we fear it could have some worrying unintended consequences.
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