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Click to view this email in a browser<http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/546214/fdb919c608/1530001785/acc3192db7/> [sh_logo_rgb] [spacer.gif] [spacer.gif] Dear , This week Shareable has an essay from frequent contributor Mira Luna on workers turning to co-operatives while the traditional economy dies slowly. PLUS: A how-to guide to online educational resources and how bike sharing can save your life. ________________________________ An Economy Turned Upside Down [http://pr.ak.vresp.com/03b515b7a/www.shareable.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_featured_image/blog/featured-image/arizmendimission20copy28129-480x381_copy.jpeg]While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Tired of asking for change from the top down, they are taking their economy into their own hands. Social justice organizations, having a strong membership base rooted in community, are ideal spaces to cultivate alternative economic projects, as relationships of trust and solidarity have been nurtured over time through education and a history of taking action for justice. Here are some exciting grassroots alternative economy projects for social justice<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/ed7ab1abec/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Here%20are%20some%20exciting%20grassroots%20alternative%20economy%20projects%20for%20social%20justice&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ How To Learn From Open Resources Online [http://pr.ak.vresp.com/a1ccc232a/www.shareable.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_featured_image/blog/featured-image/edupunks_book.jpeg]There are plenty of open resources on the Internet to allow for college-level learning on almost any topic. But diving in can be daunting. If you want to read a textbook, answer the questions at the end of each chapter, and take a sample test, you can certainly simulate that kind of traditional classroom-based learning online, but there are many, many other possibilities. Just as the three main “buckets” of traditional education are Content, Socialization, and Accreditation, or the “what,” the “how,” and the “why,” the world of open learning can be divided roughly into the parallel buckets of open content, social learning, and reputation-based networks. Click for more of this excerpt from Anya Kamentz's Edupunks' Guide<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/35d54fa466/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Click%20for%20more%20of%20this%20excerpt%20from%20Anya%20Kamentz%27s%20Edupunks%27%20Guide&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ Bike Sharing Can Save Your Life [http://pr.ak.vresp.com/f601767c1/www.shareable.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_featured_image/blog/featured-image/bike-sharing.jpg]Bike sharing has become extremely popular in major cities around the world. Paris, Stockholm, Hangzhou and Mexico City have all implemented large scale bike sharing projects with great success. And there's even talk that Los Angeles and Washington D.C. might soon follow suit. Rising fuel costs, traffic, lack of parking, and air pollution have motivated these cities to encourage their citizens to trade their cars for other forms of transportation. But now it seems there's proof of another bike sharing benefit: a longer life. In addition to being cheaper and cleaner than driving a car, a new study published recently in the British Medical Journal found that bike sharing in urban environments can actually help save lives. And we're not even talking about global warming<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/ba296cef79/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=And%20we%27re%20not%20even%20talking%20about%20global%20warming&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ Staycationing When I Would Rather Vacate [http://pr.ak.vresp.com/fb0f795f5/www.shareable.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_featured_image/blog/featured-image/screen_shot_2011-08-11_at_1.14.12_pm_copy.jpg] Having lived in seven states across all four Lower 48 time zones, I have the “been there” half of the popular mantra down pat. The “done that” side, though, is where I fall short because I have a bad habit of living in a place without ever actually experiencing it. For instance, spending a total of nearly 12 years as a resident of Los Angeles, I never once went to the La Brea Tar Pits or Cinespia. I did, however, get myself to the Griffith Observatory and even the Hollywood Bowl on several occasions each – though never to see Ella Fitzgerald, despite annual attempts to do so. Kelly endures (and enjoys) LA while she pines for San Francisco <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/c51adae8d5/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Kelly%20endures%20%28and%20enjoys%29%20LA%20while%20she%20pines%20for%20San%20Francisco&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ The Get Lost Generation [http://pr.ak.vresp.com/93df551da/www.shareable.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_featured_image/blog/top-image/lost_path_lost_shoe_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_563128.jpg] Ask a headline writer at any paper of record and they’ll tell you that today’s young people are “The Lost Generation.” They tend to use this label as if Hemingway and Fitzgerald hadn’t stumbled their way through half the bars in Paris under the same flag. Unfortunately, the youths of today aren’t lost in a morass of sex, art, booze, and politics (not necessarily in that order), but rather can’t find a path through the haze of economic insecurity and impending ecological catastrophe. The current use of the term draws less from those charmed ex-pats than from “The Lost Decade”, the name given to Japan’s period of economic stagnation during the 90′s. Online for the first time, Malcolm Harris's introduction to Share or Die<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/84bba48859/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Online%20for%20the%20first%20time%2C%20Malcolm%20Harris%27s%20introduction%20to%20Share%20or%20Die&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ This Week in Sharing [TWIS]Here are stories from the week we didn't have time to cover, but we think you might enjoy. This week includes: hacking Microsoft's video game apparatus . . . for education, the safety of peer-to-peer car sharing companies, tryouts for a new kind of reality show about communal living, all that, and much more, below. Including a project called "Free Socialist Internet" - which is exactly what it sounds like<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/dc959f04e8/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Including%26nbsp%3Ba%26nbsp%3Bproject%20called%20%22Free%20Socialist%20Internet%22%20-%20which%20is%20exactly%20what%20it%20sounds%20like&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op> ________________________________ There's a new culture and economy emerging where sharing and contributing to the common good are the priorities. At Shareable.net<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?Shareable/fdb919c608/acc3192db7/d438629855/utm_content=&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Shareable%2Enet&utm_campaign=Shareable%20August%2019%3A%20From%20Co-opted%20to%20Co-op>, we believe this shift is exactly what's needed to help us overcome the grave social and environmental crises we face today, and perhaps thrive as never before. 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