HandUp wants to solve homelessness and make money doing it

Rose Broome was walking on a cold night in San Francisco when she noticed a homeless woman living on the street. She thought, there must be a service to help people in need get crucial items like food and personal hygiene products, with some amount of transparency.

In Debt We Trust

If you look at the runaway growth of student loans and college tuition
over the past three decades, the trend lines suggest an upcoming
discontinuity.  In other words, the future, in all likelihood, will not
resemble the past.

The Bitcoin Revolution

Satoshi Nakamoto is a cryptographic genius who in 2007 began to design a system that could conceivably liberate
the mass of humanity from the clutches of traditional centralized money
systems and the controllers thereof. 

San Francisco Launches Sharing Community

A new sharing community, yerdle, aims to connect unused goods to the people who can use them.

Trusting Others in the Sharing Economy

TrustCloud is an emerging online service that provides a way to measure trustworthiness so you can estimate how others will behave.

Waxing “Sacred Economics” with Charles Eisenstein

In this interview, I talk with the RS contributor and Sacred Economics author about the
ritualistic origins of money, negative interest
banking, the spirit of the gift, the morphing future of Occupy, and the strange alchemical art of
making economics sacred.

Re-Occupation 2.0

Occupy was both a militant political movement and a community. Public support was, in large part, for the community — the mutual support and care that been lost in a culture where everything has a
price. We need to re-occupy…but with the support of the larger community created by our care.

Money and the Divine Masculine

I recently attended a ceremony on "the healing of money." Immediately a vivid
image popped into my head of a man, vast and muscular, bound to the
earth with stakes and tethers, straining with every atom of his strength
to free himself and rise up. I knew that the man represented the divine masculine and his bonds were made of money.

Making Cities Smarter Than Their Bankers

The banking
system encircles and ensnares people, buildings and environments,
defining cities, credit-rating some higher, no matter their quality of
life, infrastructure buffers or exposure. This article explores technologies for smart cities to use the system
to better advantage, through more coherent measures, innovation policies
and incentives for livability.

Funding My Existence

The most creative visionaries often cannot function adequately in modern
society. The Internet has allowed for non-traditional funding platforms, but the most popular ones fund creative projects, not a creative
life. It is time to
enable visionaries by funding their existence, allowing them to worry
about more pressing matters — like changing the world.