Interim Executive Director at Shareable, Executive Producer / Host of The Response Podcast, Co-editor of "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons"
The House passed a budget reconciliation bill that would increase our energy bills & limit America to old, inefficient energy.
We can still prevent this budget from doing irreparable harm to our communities as the Senate deliberates.
Take action now:
ruralpower.us/take-action
We’ve officially launched our Mutual Aid toolkit! We broke down the recordings from our Mutual Aid 101 learning series into clips with summaries, key takeaways, & resources. It is to build sustainable and robust mutual aid groups in your community. 🔗mutualaid101.org
Join Shareable’s second #MutualAid 101 session on Wednesday, February 26, at 4 PM PT/7 PM ET! For “Building and Sustaining Projects,” we’ll discuss:
🌱Getting started
🌱Consensus decision-making
🌱Sustaining engagement & avoiding burnout
Sign up: bit.ly/mutual-aid-101
#MutualAid 101 starts tonight! Nearly 2,000 people have registered to hear from author, activist, and educator Dean Spade and to connect with other practitioners new and established from across the US and around the world.
There’s still time to register for a free ticket!
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“Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series.” Join Shareable for a four-week mutual aid learning series to help build a network of care and resistance in your local community." The 90-minute sessions are free, virtual, and open to all and each one will take place at 4 PM PT/7 PM PT. The dates and sessions are: February 19: Intro to Mutual Aid; February 26: Building and Sustaining Projects; March 5: Legal, Financial, and Security Basics; March 12: Mutual Aid in Action."
“For a decade, the British Government has forced ratepayers to fund #forest & community destruction in the Southern US. Now is not the time for false solutions. It is time for bold leadership.” – @adamcolette16, Dogwood Alliance.
Read more: 🔗 dogwoodalliance.org/2025/02/…
After a looong Summer break, The Response podcast is back with new episodes!
We discussed the impact of the planned disaster that is #Gentrification, current struggles to stop it, and what we can do in our own communities.
✨New! We’re back with an episode featuring writer and organizer Andrew Lee.
We discussed Andrew’s recent book, "Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War," gentrification, and more.
🎧 shareable.net/response/resis…
Join us & @TuftsUEP this Wednesday, October 23 at noon ET for the next @CitiesAtTufts lecture with Charisma Acey on "Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South."
RSVP for the free & virtual event! eventbrite.com/e/urban-envir…
ALT Cities@Tufts event promo graphic. Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South with Charisma Acey. Wednesday, October 23 at 12:00 PM ET
Energy that's more reliable, sustainable, and cheaper?! This seems like a no-brainer to me. Every community, whether serviced by an electric co-op, municipally owned utility, or investor-owned utility, should become part of a Virtual Power Plant.
🏙️ The next @CitiesAtTufts is coming up! Join us and @TuftsUEP on Wednesday, October 9 at 12:00 PM ET for "Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures" with Karilyn Crockett.
This event is free, virtual & open to all. More info & sign up: eventbrite.com/e/hacking-the…
Remember when bombing hospitals was a big deal? After destroying Gaza’s healthcare system, now Israel is attacking hospitals and killing medics in LEBANON where there’s no hostages to “rescue.”
This is a war crime, funded by US-tax dollars, and US officials couldn’t care less.
“Even with this enormous investment, rural electric cooperatives still have tens of billions of dollars in need to help retire fossil fuel-based facilities and replace them with clean, sustainable energy.” Bri Knisley, @AppVoiceskentuckylantern.com/2024/09/…
Cities@Tufts, the open lecture series @Shareable co-hosts w/ Tufts University Urban and Environmental Planning dept w/ support from @BarrFdn, is back for another semester!
Join the entire 6-session free #mooc or pop in for the sessions you’re interested in.
#urbanplanning
A better world is possible—& @CitiesAtTufts brings diverse urban thought leaders to show us how.
Join us & @TuftsUEP for six free virtual events this season. We’ll kick things off on September 25 at 12 PM ET for “Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy.”
RSVP: eventbrite.com/cc/citiestuft…
ALT Cities@Tufts event promo graphic. Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy with Peter Norton. Wednesday, September 25. 12:00 PM ET
Are there any #NotCommons on your community?
Add your "Not-Commons" photos on @AREdotNA at are.na/danny-spitzber… and help map how the word gets used by landowners, business schools, Disney, etc.
🌱 Feed Black Futures, a Black, queer-led organization grounded in principles of abolition and liberation, is building power through Black food economies and food sovereignty.
Read more about their transformative work:
shareable.net/reclaiming-foo…
☀️ Great news: Two new solar farms will soon be under construction in Eastern Kentucky!
"They will provide enough electricity for about 15,500 homes. This is a big move forward for renewable energy in Kentucky." —Nick Comer, @EastKYPowerCooppublicnewsservice.org/2024-0…
We just updated our how-to guide, "How to not pay taxes."
In the midst of the US/Israeli genocide on Palestine that can't happen without US aid funded by our tax dollars, this guide feels all too relevant.
Learn more about tax resistance:
shareable.net/how-to-not-pay…
"An important part of [building #coworking community] is understanding what your members are working on, struggling with, and working toward because that lets you create programming to support them... You can’t take what works in one space and put it in another space."
Writer and public speaker Cat Johnson is dedicated to elevating indie coworking spaces worldwide.
@mllemarguerite interviewed Cat on her new book, "The Daily Co: 366 Days of Coworking and Community"!
Check out the Q&A here:
shareable.net/sharing-the-sp…
When's the last time you saw a #CocaCola ad? Was it a glass or plastic bottle?
We’re taking an inside look at how one of the world's biggest brands strategically uses #advertising and #greenwashing.
Watch on YouTube:
youtu.be/5a_QJoE1QmU
The environmental, social, and economic polycrisis is ending the world as we know it. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In the Regeneration Hand Book, Don Hall illustrates how the great transition could be a bane or it could be a boon…it’s up to all of us to shape it!