New Posts at Shareable: Makeshift Lending Libraries, Significant Objects, Food Deserts and Disaster Response
Makeshift Lending Libraries: Building a more shareable urban community doesn’t necessarily require years of planning and grand initiatives. It can be as simple as turning defunct newspaper boxes or pay phone booths into community lending libraries.
Significant Objects: The Secret History of Products: Can an unwanted, discarded item of consumer kitsch be imbued with new value by the simple act of telling its story? And what if that story was completely fabricated? This is the question that Significant Objects poses.
Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: As oil continues to pour into the gulf, many of us feel overwhelmed, unable to respond usefully in the face of such devastation. Much has been made of the power of social media and mobile phones to organize people and spur fundraising efforts during times of crisis, but SMS donations only go so far.
Community Solutions to Food Deserts: One of the most confounding issues confronting urban planners, activists, and health food advocates in recent years is the Food Desert phenomenon: low-income urban areas in a city where fresh food is difficult to obtain.


Some new posts over at Shareable, where I’m
A profile for the Santa Cruz Weekly on former Santa Cruz resident Emily Jane White, whose sophomore album, Victorian America, is excellent:
Some recent posts on Shareable.net, where I’m blogging on a weekly basis:
I’ll be live-chatting about the most important news item of the week (the LOST finale) on Wednesday, May 19 at 12 noon (central) on WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo blog.
I’m performing a brand-new short story for 