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Good gardeners need good tools. Help build a tool library to protect 91 green spaces in Chicago with a single tool collection. Ah, the power of the Sharing Economy!

NeighborSpace | Help Build our Tool Library It’s been a fruitful year for NeighborSpace, Chicago’s only community garden land trust. We now protect 91 green spaces across Chicago, and as NeighborSpace grows, so do the needs of the gardeners who tend these sites. To keep building their garden dreams, these gardeners need the right tools.

A great chance to support The Tool Library in Bloomington, IL, simply by voting!

https://www.state-assist.com/cause/1031/the-tool-library

One of the best articles that we've seen recently on the true potential of the sharing economy.

Collaborative consumption is dead, long live the real sharing economy A rule of thumb on Wall Street is when national magazines discover a trend, the trend has peaked, and there’s only one way to go: down. Unfortunately, that’s beginning to happen to “collaborative c...

Excellent blog post at Center for a New American Dream, featuring Station North Tool Library and too many other tool libraries to count! The amazing product of research conducted by John Shea and Piper Watson on a cross-country motorcycle trip!

Starting a Tool Library: Inspiration and Insights from Baltimore’s Station North Editor's Note: In February 2013, the founders of Baltimore's new Station North Tool Library sent New Dream a note of appreciation for hosting our August 2012 webinar on "How to Start a Tool Library in Your Community," which they credited with helping their own project come to life. We invited them t...