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Mutual Aid Toolkit 101

Introducing Shareable’s new toolkit: “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance”

After Donald Trump’s re-election in late 2024, Shareable staff saw the pressing need to build skills and pathways for those newly engaged in the shared struggles to come.


May 29, 2025

Microplastics

A new study finds that microplastics are increasingly present in human brains

A new study has found a dramatic increase in levels of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) in human brains in recent years.


May 29, 2025

Sun Day picture

Darn it, that’s just not true

As most of you know we’re reviving that SunDay on Sept 21—the fall equinox—with a nationwide celebration of renewable energy, part of the protest against the lies and inaction of this administration.


May 29, 2025

Plastic waste drifting down to the ocean floor.

Study Reveals Up to 11 Million Tons of Plastic Polluting Ocean Floors

The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth’s ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week.


May 29, 2025

bookcover

Radical abundance through degrowth – a vision for a communal economy

Saito makes a compelling case this is exactly the kind of economy we need, one which will slow it down so we can deal with our multifaceted crises. In other words, to leave a world with which our children can cope. But is it the kind of economy we can have? How do we get from there to here?


May 29, 2025

US Supreme Court

Can Democratic Attorneys General Save the Environment from Trump 2.0? (Part 1)

When the dust of history finally settles on the Trump administration, it will be shown as one of the most litigated administrations in US history. Among the leaders of that litigation will be state attorneys general.


May 29, 2025

Testing for plastic in exhaled dolphin breath

Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins – new research

Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.


May 29, 2025

Carrying water in the Cholistan Desert

Sindh farmers fear outcomes of irrigation projects in Pakistan

In Pakistan, thousands of protesters have fought against the Cholistan Canal Project, which would divert water from the Indus River to irrigate millions of hectares of desert for corporate farming.


May 28, 2025

Malin Pinsky

Malin Pinsky — The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life

In this conversation, Nate is joined by marine ecologist Malin Pinsky, whose decades of research shed light on the dramatic migrations of marine species due to rising ocean temperatures.


May 28, 2025

Tool library

The Many Innovative Spheres of Organized Sharing

In its many projects, Shareable has shown just how diverse, creative, and consequential organized sharing can be. The power of bottom-up collaboration focused on specific needs is powerful. When modest infrastructures are created to empower people to contribute their talents, some amazing things happen.


May 28, 2025

oil

Review: On Oil by Don Gillmor

Canadian author Don Gillmor is known for his insightful, often satirical commentary on Canadian culture and history. In On Oil, he examines oil’s place in modern life from a largely North American and particularly Canadian perspective.


May 28, 2025

the ninth wave paiting

Scramble and Cling

Modernity barricades us in a bristling fortress set against the wildness outside. From this position of retreat, having disengaged from the external reality for generation upon generation, we tell spooky stories about what’s out there and shudder to think about the certain death of leaving our safe haven…


May 28, 2025

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