by Sven | Feb 24, 2013 | interviews, online, writing
With almost 1000 members and growing, the West Seattle Tool Library has become one of the most successful community-led tool lending services in the country. In less than three years, the project has grown into a community hub where people not only share tools, but...
by Sven | Feb 24, 2013 | essays, online, writing
Is sharing for profit sharing? Is the sharing economy just for smiling would-be billionaires and well-situated creatives? A recent Forbes article raises the question of the meaning of sharing, which I explore in this Shareable opinion piece – Sharing for Profit...
by Sven | Feb 17, 2013 | online
This week I got to organize the Forward on Climate “blogathon” with some of my blogger friends at Daily Kos, in the lead up to tomorrow’s big rally in Washington D.C. and a bunch of solidarity rallies around the country. We had some heavy hitters...
by Sven | Feb 7, 2013 | features, online, writing
New article on Matador Travel Network: 23 laws from other countries the US should adopt TRAVELING IS A GREAT WAY to learn about other cultures and ways of thinking. While most of our encounters with a host country’s legal system usually revolve around visas and...
by Sven | Jan 25, 2013 | articles, features, online, photo essays, reporting, writing
Last week I wrote a piece for Shareable entitled Bring Transition Town-style Sharing to your Community about the transition movement and its latest, most noteworthy and replicable inspirations and projects. Through my research I also got a lot of input and inspiration...
by Sven | Jan 10, 2013 | articles, features, online, writing
Matador, the world’s largest independent travel magazine, just published my piece about my German ancestral roots in the seed trading business and how it relates to California’s narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have required food products made...