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Melissa Ehrenreich's avatar

I moderate a Buy Nothing Group, it is both wonderful and problematic. Creating offline sharing at scale and what that could look like is something so really want to investigate further. There are multi generational housing projects also functioning as mutual aid hubs. I am also considering just starting to erect wish boxes all across our community that have QR codes for you to fill out wishes for your community to fulfill.

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Randall Hayes's avatar

There's a lot of philosophy here, but buried inside is a proposal for mutual-aid economies at the level of a city or a bioregion.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-163192015

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Philip Engelbutzeder's avatar

wow, goosebumps

our HCI research totally resonates with this: abundance, resource sharing, enoughness

we should get in touch :)

That's one of our papers: "From surplus and scarcity toward abundance: Understanding the use of ICT in food resource sharing practices."

https://doi.org/10.1145/3589957

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Natalie Cone's avatar

Just ordered, the Serviceberry and am looking forward to learning.

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