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The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people. By April M. Short Humans have

We all have an opportunity to affect the production of products that are not healthy for us or the environment. You can support environmental change with your pocketbook.

Their most important title, however, is not so average: Mom and Dad to 14 children. To almost anyone, parent or not, raising 14 kids is a fantasy. That fact alone would make the Fatzingers, who paid off their final debt balance, a mortgage, nine years ago, qualified to publish their advice on managing money. But through detailing their own strategies on budgeting, staying out of high-interest debt, saving for big expenses, and raising financially responsible adults — all of which are based on lived experience and most of which are reinforced by lessons from their Catholic faith — the coup...

Marni Jameson When I was a kid, my mom would often dispatch me to a neighbor’s house to borrow an egg, or a cup of sugar. My dad regularly loaned out his tools or lawnmower. That’s just how it was. But as a (one might argue) grown-up, I can’t remember ever asking to borrow anything from a neighbor. If we’re out of eggs, or need a new rake, we run to the store. The Buy Nothing Project, a local effort started by two friends that has gone global (the social movement now has over 4 million participants in 44 countries), is working to make the world a little more li...

The female founders of the Buy Nothing Project share examples of free items posted in Facebook groups.