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Gift Economy

Gift economy is the practice of freely giving what you dont need to those who do. It promotes cooperation and inclusivity, aiming to meet everyone's basic needs while reducing waste and overproduction. Some examples:

    Swap Shops [article] - also known as free stores, freeshops, and give-away stores, swap shops are places for things to be freely given and taken

    FoodNotBombs.net [website] - collecting and redistributing unsold food

    Sirum.org - Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine

    TrashNothing.com - Want free stuff? Got stuff to give away?

    FreeCycle.org [website] - Giving and getting stuff for free in our own Towns

    BuyNothingApp.com [website] - GIVE what you no longer need, ASK for what you want

    Freeya.com - takes the headache out of giving and getting free stuff in your neighborhood

    CouchSurfing.com - Stay with Locals and Meet Travelers

    BeWelcome.org - BeWelcome the largest free hospitality community

    HospitalityClub.org - Hospitality Club aims to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town.

    Librivox.org - Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.

    Gutenberg.org - Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks

    CharityNavigator.org - Explore charities, view their ratings

    Annas-Archive.org - The largest truly open library in human history

Library Economy

Library economy is a system that emphasizes shared access to resources and goods within a community, allowing individuals to borrow items instead of owning them. It promotes cooperation and inclusivity, aiming to meet everyone's basic needs while reducing waste and overproduction. Here is a video introduction:

We Need a Library Economy [video] - by Andrew Sage

And here are some examples:

Ethical Exchange

Alternative Currency

    TimeBanks.org - TimeBanks track the hours members earn by helping others and the hours they spend receiving help.

    Community-Exchange.org - exchange and share using a variety of exchange methods: record keeping, time exchange, direct exchange, barter, swapping, gifting and sharing

Vote With Your Dollars

    Divestment Guide [article] - Simple first steps toward corporate divestment

    EthicalConsumer.org - how to use your spending power to help change the world for the better.

    ICEout - NOT WITH MY DOLLARS: ICE OUT OF MY WALLET is a nationwide boycott campaign against the corporations that profit the most from ICE's surveillance and abduction network. We refuse to let our dollars fund raids, surveillance, family separation, or the criminalization of immigrant communities. Black Friday was only the start.

    BookShop.org [website] - connecting readers with independent booksellers

Education and Organization

Salvage Economy

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