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Environmental paper sourcing information can be found here: https://www.ingramcontent.com/publishers/resources/environmental-responsibility Photos on book cover, from left to right starting from top left corner: #1 Participatory budgeting vote in NYC by Costa Constantinides, CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/65900513@N06/17024022128 #2 Critical Mass ride in Baton Rouge by Tobin, BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/71239428@N00/3776538005 #3 Amsterdam canal by Kirk F., CC0 http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=210495&picture=am- sterdam-kanal #4 Skillz Bazaar 2016 By Ouishare CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ouishare/28344724232 #5 Bioretention garden in Detroit by University of Michigan, CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/snre/27003352592 #6 The Hundertwasserhaus by Lucian Llica, Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hundertwasser_06.jpg #7 NYC park by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash (free use) https://unsplash.com/photos/kwSg-CnWvdc #8 Repair Cafe in Reading, UK by Karen Blakeman, CC0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbainfo/14702529206 #9 Community garden by Sharing Gardens, CC BY 4.0 https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jW-hqviuG1Q/VUpaEbyKUCI/AAAAAAAAHZs/-wHKa- vYzcmg/s1600/Adri-Barb-Cindy-Journey-carrots.jpg #10 Gangnam-gu, Seoul by Ian Muttoo, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/imuttoo/233409542 #11 Auto rickshaw driver by Satyajit Dhawale, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nagpur_Autorickshaw.jpg #12 City Repair street reclamation project by urbz CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbzoo/3939954491 #13 Denver bike share station, CC0 https://pixabay.com/en/bikes-bicycles-denver-city-winter-690446 BOOK AT A GLANCE CHAPTER 1: HOUSING / 40 Cooperative Housing, Short-term Rental Policy, Accessory Dwelling Units, Tiny Houses for the Homeless, Open-source Design, Community Renewal. CHAPTER 2: MOBILITY / 61 Ride Hailing, Cooperative Taxi, Walking School Bus, Car Sharing, Shared Mobility Strategy, Bike Sharing, Mobile Transit Platform. CHAPTER 3: FOOD / 82 Kitchen Library, Surplus Food Redistribution, Community Gardens, Peer-to-Peer Food Sharing, Urban Orchards, Farmers Markets, Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone. CHAPTER 4: WORK / 103 FabLabs, Cooperative Ownership, Community Wealth, Platform Cooperatives, Makerspaces, Arts Cooperatives, Social Entrepreneur Networks. CHAPTER 5: ENERGY / 124 Community Choice Aggregation, Wind Energy Cooperative, Purchasing Alliance, Shared Ownership of Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Feed-in-Tariffs. 4 CHAPTER 6: LAND / 145 Community Land Trusts, Placemaking, Reclaiming Public Land, Open Land Data, Public Art and Culture, Peer-to-Peer Space Rental, Foreclosure Fine Ordinance. CHAPTER 7: WASTE / 165 Citizen Compost Initiative, Repair Café, Worker-owned Recycling Cooperative, Zero-Waste, Municipal Reuse Center, Open-source Benchmarking. CHAPTER 8: WATER / 185 Remunicipalisation, Community Bill of Rights, Community-led Management, Depaving Public Space, Community Science, Resident-managed Sanitation. CHAPTER 9: TECHNOLOGY / 206 Internet for All, Crowdsourced Data, Managing Response to Disasters, Open-source Software, City Making, Open-data Policy, Addressing the Digital Divide. CHAPTER 10: FINANCE / 227 Credit Unions, State Banks, Local Currencies, Community Benefits Agreements, Civic Crowdfunding, Civic and Elder-care Time Banking, Citizen Investment in Local Food Systems. CHAPTER 11: GOVERNANCE / 251 Urban Commons, Participatory Budgeting, Civic Project Software Platform, Participatory Planning, Polycentric Planning for Climate Change, Neighborhood Partnership Network. 5 SHAREABLE STAFF FELLOWS Neal Gorenflo Adrien Labaeye San Francisco, U.S. Berlin, Germany @gorenflo @alabaeye Executive editor and contributor Land and Technology fellow Neal is the co-founder and executive director of Adrien is a researcher in Berlin working on Shareable who believes in the power of sharing. commoning at the intersection of urban and http://www.shareable.net/users/neal-gorenflo digital spaces. http://www.shareable.net/users/adrien-labaeye Tom Llewellyn San Francisco, U.S. Daniel Araya @shareabletom Champaign, U.S. Project manager, editor, and contributor @danielarayaxy Tom is the strategic partnerships director at Editing fellow Shareable.net, and a lifelong sharer, commoner, Daniel has a doctorate from the University and storyteller. of Illinois and is a researcher and govern- http://www.shareable.net/users/tom-llewellyn ment adviser. http://www.shareable.net/users/daniel-araya Maira Sutton San Francisco, U.S. Darren Sharp @maira Melbourne, Australia Editor and contributor @dasharp Maira is a writer and organizer focused on Work and Waste fellow the intersection of human rights and the Darren is the director of Social Surplus, commons, who works as the community a strategy consultancy that works with engagement manager at Shareable. governments and communities to activate http://www.shareable.net/users/mai-sutton Sharing Cities. He is the Australian editor of Shareable and Melbourne coordinator of the Ambika Kandasamy Sharing Cities Network. Boston, U.S. http://www.shareable.net/users/darren-sharp @ambikakandasamy Editor Emily Egginton Skeehan Ambika is a journalist and digital strategist who Tokyo, Japan works as the managing editor at Shareable. Energy and Water fellow http://www.shareable.net/users/ambika- Emily is a marine scientist working for the kandasamy Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan. Joslyn Beile http://www.shareable.net/users/emily-skeehan San Francisco, U.S. Business manager and editor Khushboo Balwani Joslyn is the operations manager at Share- Brussels, Belgium able, responsible for organizational initia- @khushbooBalwani tives to sustain Shareable’s mission. Food and Work fellow http://www.shareable.net/users/joslyn-beile Khushboo is a designer and strategist work- ing on how collaborative methodologies can solve social challenges in India and in Europe. http://www.shareable.net/users/khush- boo-balwani 6 CONTRIBUTORS Kristen Hewitt Ryan Gourley Northampton, U.S. Ann Arbor, U.S. @kristen0wl @ryangourley Production fellow Editing fellow Kristen is a writer and editor living in west- Ryan serves as director of the University of ern Massachusetts. Michigan student venture accelerator, and http://www.shareable.net/users/kristen-hewitt is an educator and entrepreneur working to bring social innovations to life. Leila Collins http://www.shareable.net/users/ryan-gourley New York, U.S. @LeilaCollins4 Sharon Ede Mobility and Finance fellow Adelaide, Australia Leila previously worked on the collaborative @sharonede economy movement in Israel and the West Housing and Mobility fellow Bank and currently works at a PropTech Sharon is an urbanist and activist who works accelerator in New York City. to build the sharing and collaborative move- http://www.shareable.net/users/leila-collins ment in Australia and beyond. http://www.shareable.net/users/cruxcatalyst Marco Quaglia Rome, Italy Simone Cicero @MarcoQuaglia89 Rome, Italy Waste and Governance fellow @meedabyte Marco is a former member of LabGov with Collaboration fellow experience in the NGO sector; he lives in Simone is a strategist and designer who has Rome, Italy, where he currently works in been exploring collaborative productions management consulting. models for more than a decade. He is also http://www.shareable.net/users/marco-quaglia the creator of the Platform Design Toolkit and OuiShare Connector. Nikolas Kichler http://www.shareable.net/users/simone-cicero Vienna, Austria Housing and Water fellow Wolfgang Hoeschele Nikolas works as a researcher