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 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 30, 2013 | reviews, writing
I just reviewed “One Couch at a Time,” a movie about traveling and the sharing economy. Check out Couchsurfing was my gateway drug at Matador Travel Network. I went to a screening of the movie at the Hub in San Francisco, followed by a discussion of the...
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...
by Sven | Dec 16, 2012 | articles, features, print, reporting, writing
The winter issue of YES! Magazine features my article From Soap to Cities, Designing From Nature Could Solve Our Biggest Challenges. It has the latest info about the Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle movements, culled from interviews with Biomimicry visionary Janine...
